Why I Hate Peter Jackson: Radagast

Maybe someday, I will fully explain all the problems with Radagast the Brown’s presence in the Hobbit movies. That day will not be today, however. I’m not strong enough yet.

Instead I’ll just make a quick list.

1. We’re 55 minutes into the movie. How much of that time has dealt with the actual story from The Hobbit? Ten minutes? At most, fifteen.

2. We just finished with a flashback to Thorin’s story which wasn’t really necessary, unless we’re trying to stretch the story out. Now we have another interlude that isn’t from the book that follows directly upon the last one.

3. Radagast is to Peter Jackson what Jar-Jar Binks is to George Lucas.

4. The dead animals look extremely fake. There’s no doubt that we’re on a movie set.

5. This interlude does not create suspense or tension. It only takes us out of the movie. We’ve barely created any tension within the main story, and now we’re being pulled elsewhere?

6. It’s really stupid to see the spiders start climbing around the house, and then just start crawling away again.

7. He has a sled pulled by rabbits. Besides being stupid, it’s not even physically possible for that sled to be pulled through the forest by horses or dogs, let alone by rabbits.

8. A fucking sled pulled by rabbits!!!!

Minutes Watched: 55:22

Number of Montages: 2

Number of Gratuitous References To The First Trilogy: 1

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