I can't say I was too pleased with the Hobbit movies insofar. Gotta admit, I think what the book did in one novel was better and could have easily been done within the movies budget. Also, what they left out from the books seemed... odd. Like, they had someone go through the book and cross out random sections, and add new ones, without ever having read the hobbit. It felt like i was watching a strange mix between the Silmarillion and the hobbit with harry potter thrown in for shits and gigs. I think that if they took their source material more seriously, they would have had a better trilogy.

I'd say 50-50.

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I don't know jack.

Yes, his role is makes more sense in The Hobbit movies and is way cooler.

The new Skype group/IRC is a great idea, although if someone has something serious to say it will probably get clogged up, as the room is kinda too active.

Well, they almost always have to take the movie in a different direction from the book. It's just how it is. I find reading a book, and then watching a movie based on that book ruins the movie for me. It's not that you think the Hobbit was bad, it's that you're disappointed it didn't follow the same exact story as the book.

Not really disappointed, It was just pretty bad to me. We got no introduction to any of the characters or their personalities in the first movie, which made me not care about what happened to them. Oh, but you know their names and they sung a dwarvish song, that's personality! No. No it is not. Personalities differ from person to person. Dwarves do not have a collective conscious. Granted, it wasn't that bad if you looked at it from a blockbuster movie standpoint, but I gaurentee it will not hold up as well as any of the LOTR movies did. Those had character and personality, and turned out brilliantly. The hobbit part one was lacking in both those regards. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that I was more interested in the trolls than any of the dwarves or bilbo. It was a movie designed to make money, not made to be good. And it shows.

Also, I don't think I would have been disappointed if it had been changed for the better, but I don't feel that it was. They took out too much and gave the things they added like no introduction at all. Visually the movies are great, but they are so far lacking in every other area. Also, If a movie is based on a book, it should follow the book's story. There is no reason to add Gandalf's brother that was mentioned in the Silmarillion to the movie, other than to provide comic relief- That wasn't needed. They had 13 Dwarves to create comedy with- and they did that, and only that. No development whatsoever, just comedic relief. So to be frank, he was not a needed character. If we had had more interaction between the characters, or something- and I know it sounds like I'm repeating myself, but this bears repeating- they would have had a better movie. Jackson got wayyyy to caught up in how his special effects were doing in this movie series.


And no, Revenge is not a personality, sorry Thorin.

Eh, I liked it. I liked this one a lot better than the first one. Like I said, you're focusing on things they did in the book that didn't happen in the movie. Coming from me, a person who didn't read the book, I liked it quite a lot. I thought enough of the dwarves had personality, and there's still one more movie to go.

Also, Gandalf's brother? Who do you mean?

The wizard that appeared in the first movie, the nature fanatic. All of the remaining wizards are of the same race, and that race has like, 7 ppl left in it. The maiar shown in the lord of the rings, or mentioned in the silmarillion, are numbered as 7. Sauron, the Balrog, Sauroman, Ragadast, Gandalf, Alatar and Pallando. There are certainly more, but none are mentioned in the series. They are beings created at the beginning of time, so technically, you could call them brothers, as they are celestial beings.

Oh, well they're not brothers though, are they? And I thought it was only 5 wizards. Or "The 5 Wizards" or whatever.

Okay, so I just had a Skittle War. Inspired by that Reddit post where the guy mashes M&Ms until he's left with 1. Mine's a little different in the fact that they're Skittles (Because I don't like M&Ms), and I did the smashing a bit differently.

I still put the two between my fingers and smashed them until one cracked, but instead of keeping the winner until he smashed, I found it more fair to do a tournament. So I smashed them, ate the loser and put the winner to the side. I got all the way down to 1 left. At the end, there were 2 purples, an orange, and a red. The orange won it.

I'm going to buy 7 more packs of Skittles, do the same thing, have 8 final victors, and put them through the test. Then i will be left with one ultimate Skittle.

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