What gold statue? I don't remember seeing any gold statues?yovargas wrote:Most puzzling
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Most Memorable, etc. (Hobbit films)
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And now that I'm enjoying other people's takes...
Let the other societies take the skilled, the hopefuls, the ambitious, the self-confident. He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and lowgrade paranoia.
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Re: Most Memorable, etc. (Hobbit films)
Most memorable
The Misty Mountain song, including Bilbo listening from his bedroom, and the scene ending with the camera climbing up into the sky above the chimney. Hauntingly beautiful, and captures the essence of that scene in the book.
Most moving
Bilbo's mix of relief and profound disappointment after the dwarves leave Bag End. Better than the book, and that's the only time I've said that about a PJ interpretation! A close second is Balin and Thorin's first entrance into the Mountain, tied with Bilbo's moments at the end of BOFA, in an empty Bag End.
Most missed (something from the book that you hoped to see and didn't)
A proper conversation with some old ravens!
Most appealing visually
This is a tough one. I'm going to have to go with the final moments of Smaug's death, when his head turns coal black, and you can see the lake and Erebor in the background, lit by moonlight. Gorgeous (and apparently, mostly CGI!)
Most puzzling
Oh, Lord. The decision to have the dwarves look like French cartoon characters, I suppose. Tied with Goblintown's awfulness.
Most amusing
Good morning!
Most like the book
Good morning!
Most unlike the book
Alfrid.
Most unexpected
The golden dwarf statue. But I loved it, and feel it is one of the best moments in DOS.
Most imaginative
Dain on a pig. I liked that a lot.
The Misty Mountain song, including Bilbo listening from his bedroom, and the scene ending with the camera climbing up into the sky above the chimney. Hauntingly beautiful, and captures the essence of that scene in the book.
Most moving
Bilbo's mix of relief and profound disappointment after the dwarves leave Bag End. Better than the book, and that's the only time I've said that about a PJ interpretation! A close second is Balin and Thorin's first entrance into the Mountain, tied with Bilbo's moments at the end of BOFA, in an empty Bag End.
Most missed (something from the book that you hoped to see and didn't)
A proper conversation with some old ravens!
Most appealing visually
This is a tough one. I'm going to have to go with the final moments of Smaug's death, when his head turns coal black, and you can see the lake and Erebor in the background, lit by moonlight. Gorgeous (and apparently, mostly CGI!)
Most puzzling
Oh, Lord. The decision to have the dwarves look like French cartoon characters, I suppose. Tied with Goblintown's awfulness.
Most amusing
Good morning!
Most like the book
Good morning!
Most unlike the book
Alfrid.
Most unexpected
The golden dwarf statue. But I loved it, and feel it is one of the best moments in DOS.
Most imaginative
Dain on a pig. I liked that a lot.
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Thanks, PtB. I was hoping you would post more specific responses than you did earlier.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Seems I am in the very clear minority round here in thinking that the Bag End stuff in AUJ was pretty darn dull despite it's general puristyness. 
And Frelga, I have no idea what you're talking about.....
And Frelga, I have no idea what you're talking about.....
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
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Yep, I LOVED the Bag End part of AUJ!
Frelga:
That and the wheelbarrow scene were the worst part of DoS, IMO!
Frelga:
That and the wheelbarrow scene were the worst part of DoS, IMO!
When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
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Coming to this last.
Most memorable
Smaug's reveal.
Golden Smaug.
Misty mountains song.
Most moving
Bilbo's final farewell to the dwarves. ("tea is at 4... don't bother knocking")
I had tears in my eyes in that scene all the three times I watched it. The only scene that moved me that much in the film. I don't know why.
Most missed (something from the book that you hoped to see and missed)
Mirkwood.
Most appealing visually
Agreed with PtB. Most of the attack on Laketown and Smaug's death especially.
But I'll also place golden Smaug breaking through Erebor and flying off into the distance. That had a truly mythic (and Tolkienesque) grandeur.
Most puzzling
I'd say splitting it into three films. But if that becomes too general, then the decision to spend way more time on Tauriel Legolas and Kili (and creating the whole love triangle) than the quest.
Most amusing
The kitchen song and Bilbo inside Thranduil's tent.
Most like the book
Too tough to choose. There's the good morning scene. The dinner at Bag End. The Riddles. The exchange between Thorin and Bard at the gates of Erebor.
Most unlike the book
The Healing scene.
Most unexpected
in a bad way.
When the Kili Tauriel thing first came up.
otherwise, Sandworms.
Most imaginative
Sauron's metaphysical form.
Most memorable
Smaug's reveal.
Golden Smaug.
Misty mountains song.
Most moving
Bilbo's final farewell to the dwarves. ("tea is at 4... don't bother knocking")
I had tears in my eyes in that scene all the three times I watched it. The only scene that moved me that much in the film. I don't know why.
Most missed (something from the book that you hoped to see and missed)
Mirkwood.
Most appealing visually
Agreed with PtB. Most of the attack on Laketown and Smaug's death especially.
But I'll also place golden Smaug breaking through Erebor and flying off into the distance. That had a truly mythic (and Tolkienesque) grandeur.
Most puzzling
I'd say splitting it into three films. But if that becomes too general, then the decision to spend way more time on Tauriel Legolas and Kili (and creating the whole love triangle) than the quest.
Most amusing
The kitchen song and Bilbo inside Thranduil's tent.
Most like the book
Too tough to choose. There's the good morning scene. The dinner at Bag End. The Riddles. The exchange between Thorin and Bard at the gates of Erebor.
Most unlike the book
The Healing scene.
Most unexpected
in a bad way.
When the Kili Tauriel thing first came up.
otherwise, Sandworms.
Most imaginative
Sauron's metaphysical form.
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Thanks, SV! Nice to see you around!
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Same to you, sir V.
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SV, your sig pic!
And after going through more of replies, I was reminded that the most like the book moment was actually the Misty Mountain song. It was perfect.
And after going through more of replies, I was reminded that the most like the book moment was actually the Misty Mountain song. It was perfect.
Let the other societies take the skilled, the hopefuls, the ambitious, the self-confident. He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and lowgrade paranoia.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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