The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug instal the new for ios

Nevermind the invention of Tauriel and Kili and her interactionģ) Lack of Mirkwood time - It was so rushed. That was way too many changes from the book. Definitely dropped the ball on this one and I hope that there is more of him in the EE.Ģ) Prolific and gratuitous changes to the Elven kingdom of Mirkwood - From Thorin being captured with everyone else to Thranduil and Thorin both talking about the dwarves' quest and Thranduil offering his help. He might as well have not even been there. I was expecting PJ to have a field day with this, showing him skinning the warg, fighting the goblins and what not. Like the Ents in the theatre version of TTT, Beorn was pretty much useless. There were almost no redeeming qualities to this movie as an adaptation.ġ) Lack of Beorn - You think with all the fleshing out, additions, gratuitous changes that PJ makes to the movies, he would have done it with this. Sorry folks but this was even worse than The Two Towers theater version in regards to the LoTR series for a lousy adaptation. So without further ado, let's get on with it.ġ) Smaug - Looked great, sounded great and said (or said out loud from his thoughts) what Tolkien wrote.Ģ) The Spiders of Mirkwood - Looked good even if it didn't follow the book very well.ģ) Fight sequences - Despite that most of them were fabricated, Jackson definitely made them exciting and enjoyable. There was so much wrong with this installment that I barely recognized the book short of a few locations and the linear story line.

I really, really tried to separate the book from the movie but I found it impossible to do with DOS compared to UJ. Before the FADs (Film Adaptation Defenders) come out in full force and knock me for my review, know that I DID give Unexpected Journey 7/10 despite the grievous changes in it. Well folks, many of you know this is my custom to review the movies like this and has been since they first came out back in the First Age of the Tolkien forum.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug instal the new for ios