The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

The second movie moves even farther from the book. Bringing in scenes that don't occur in the book itself, but in other notes by Tolkien if at all. I like Beorn and think he was portrayed well, but only the extended edition saves how the party of Thorin meets him for the first time. I'm not going to touch much on Tauriel let's just say she should have stayed in the woods. Same with Legolas, but I did love the banter between him and Gloin father of Gimli. The whole trying to take down Smaug scene was interesting to watch, but still a major change. I also didn't like how Smaug saw Bilbo for their conversation. In the book Bilbo is never seen by Smaug, but I'm assuming they had Bilbo be visable to help viewers follow and avoid other complications. Finally when did the ring wraiths make morgal arrows? And why give them to an order, albeit it was Bolg, but still it seemed much to akin to the Lord of the Rings. In the end though as I like to think if you consider the Hobbit movies a fan fiction it's not a bad movie to watch. Leaving me to place this one in the medium category, but only just barely.

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