Originally Posted by Simply Red (Post 9532289)

Originally Posted by Guru (Post 9531299)

I felt they didn't do a good job with sizing at all. In the LotR trilogy they did an outstanding job of this. In Hobbit I felt like I was watching tall dwarves that are just shrunk to look smaller than everyone else. Bugged me the entire movie. How can you do it so well in one movie yet so badly in the followup?

Originally Posted by Guru (Post 9531299)

I felt they didn't do a good job with sizing at all. In the LotR trilogy they did an outstanding job of this. In Hobbit I felt like I was watching tall dwarves that are just shrunk to look smaller than everyone else. Bugged me the entire movie. How can you do it so well in one movie yet so badly in the followup?

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy! (Post 9236770)

I disagree here. I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it. I thought I was a pretty big step down from any of the three LOTR films, and that's partly due to the complete destruction of my willing suspension of disbelief. I can get past these people falling great distances and not being completely broken, but can we get at least some scratches? It was a little overlong, and the pacing was a bit off. A lot of the toilet humor felt forced and out of place.

The casting was outstanding, though, and for the most part the effects were top notch (there's one shot of the Brown Wizard guy on the rabbit sled leading the orcs on a chase that had ridiculously bad FX).

Again, overall I enjoyed the movie, and I'll see the next ones. But it wasn't what I'd hoped, and it wasn't what I expected.

My 2 cents.

Originally Posted by Fish (Post 9532625)

LMAO.... A story of Elves and Dwarves and Orcs and wizards and giant Eagles and magic rings. But those ****ers fell 500 feet and nobody died. So I hate it........ Fail...

Originally Posted by Fish (Post 9532625)

LMAO.... A story of Elves and Dwarves and Orcs and wizards and giant Eagles and magic rings. But those ****ers fell 500 feet and nobody died. So I hate it........ Fail...

Originally Posted by Frosty (Post 9532637)

Hey! I like realism in my fantasy. :harumph:


Besides, they didn't fall straight down. The thing slid and hit other things on the way down. That would take a lot of the momentum out.

*grasping at straws*

Originally Posted by Fish (Post 9532625)

LMAO.... A story of Elves and Dwarves and Orcs and wizards and giant Eagles and magic rings. But those ****ers fell 500 feet and nobody died. So I hate it........ Fail...

Originally Posted by Simply Red (Post 9532289)

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy! (Post 9532636)

Willing suspension of disbelief will only take you so far...

Originally Posted by Fish (Post 9532753)

So belief in magic rings that make you invisible is OK and unquestioned, but portraying the effects of gravity slightly incorrectly is the deal breaker?

Still doesn't make sense. Why would gravity receive more factual scrutiny than magic?

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 9532716)

cmon man, physics still exists in middle earth.

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy! (Post 9532797)

Because...