I particularly hated the rather boring meeting of the dwarves. A lot of exposition (much of which already got established in the opening montage) followed by a speech
Ah, good. It’s been twenty minutes since we were introduced to the Lonely Mountain and the lost kingdom of the dwarves. It’s good that we’re getting it explained
Full Disclosure: The Hobbit is my favorite book of all time. Bilbo Baggins is my favorite character in all of Tolkien. I believe there’s some kind of transitive
You’d think I’d have learned by now. Turns out there was more to the introduction. We got a four-minute exchange between old Bilbo and Frodo that served NO
Well, I finally made it through the opening montage. Peter Jackson even managed to throw in a few shots of New Zealand scenery. Lessons we learned in the
Remember all those times that Frodo dropped the ring and then it spun through the air and fell right onto finger? Thorin’s grandfather just did the same thing
Well, it didn’t take long for things to change drastically. Rather than get straight to the story, Jackson has gifted us another long opening montage. In this instance,
An Unexpected Journey opens with a much better frame than the LOTR trilogy. Instead of a long-winded montage that reveals information that will be repeated a number of
