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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Their worst sin in my opinion is actually how they split off the end of the Smaug storyline to be resolved in, like, the first five minutes of the third movie (literally before the title) rather than resolving it in the second movie. Huge pacing mistake.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

WHAT? Like, I know that the battle and stuff does happen after Smaug, so he’s not the final event of the book like you’d think, but I can’t imagine jumping into the third movie for a weirdly quick pay-off and then watching them drag out the battle for basically an entire movie.

God the more I know about these movies the happier I am in my choice to just cherish the book on its own.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

There are plenty of huge errors in these movies, but the pacing of Smaug's demise was one of the better deviations.