TBH, I do not mind nearly so much the additions PJ made to TH as I do to those in LotR, because while he made a few changes to some things in addition to his extra material, he did NOT cut out any key scenes from the story, whereas in LotR, he had to cut precious source material in order to fit in his little additions. (BTW, the questions I raised are actually just movie-verse questions. They are plotholes in the movie-script that make no sense even if you've never read the books. If I added in my questions about why he cut certain essential stuff from the books, the list would be ten times as long. But...Howard Shore! I forgive PJ anything for that!)
The Azog storyline is lame, but he needed something to give a little bit more interest to the first part of the movie, because in the book nearly all the exciting bits take place (as they should in a book) in the last half; really the last third.
I'll be watching TH:AUJ today--my son has given me the DVD and he's bringing his girlfriend and her kids over to watch it with me today.
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Date: 2013-03-20 03:20 pm (UTC)The Azog storyline is lame, but he needed something to give a little bit more interest to the first part of the movie, because in the book nearly all the exciting bits take place (as they should in a book) in the last half; really the last third.
I'll be watching TH:AUJ today--my son has given me the DVD and he's bringing his girlfriend and her kids over to watch it with me today.