idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
LockeColeMA wrote:
I read the book something like 15 years ago. Near as I can recall, a goodly portion of this movie was not true to the book; or rather, the locations and events were and then extra stuff was added to pad the action quota. Which wasn't bad! I enjoyed the movie more than the first and I never thought I'd say it but I liked seeing Legolas in action again. The ending definitely leaves you on a cliff-hanger wanting more, but the anticipation is builds for the final movie is great; I think the third movie should be excellent.
Edited, Dec 15th 2013 12:25pm by LockeColeMA
Edited, Dec 15th 2013 12:25pm by LockeColeMA
Atm, I'm refusing to see the movie, because the trailer alone contained so much stuff that wasn't in the book that I just can't bring myself to do it. The first definitely stretched out a lot of the events (for obvious reasons), but the scenes that were not in the book were kept to a minimum - essentially just Radaghast and the council at Rivendell.
You have the general events: Beorn, Murkwood, spiders, elves, barrels, Laketown, hidden door, Smaug. It's the details that are different: New orc pursuer... or rather, the RIGHT one... dwarves wake up and get taken captive rather than being poisoned by spiders, Legaolas and new elf Tauriel, Tauriel and Kili kinda-romance, smuggling into Laketown, Bard is now a guerrilla fighter and smuggler, not a guard, Orcs arrive in Laketown, extended escape sequence from Erebor, Smaug the Golden apparently gets his name from Golden Giant Dwarf Statue, not the riches embedded in his belly... etc.