Finally took Mom out for her birthday

[cornerofmadness]

She wanted to see the last Hobbit movie. She liked it much more than me. I didn't hate it but...I've learned it's not just reading battle scenes in books/manga that bores me. Spoiler-free - this is 2 hours of battle, one long continuous battle. I was like OMG really? It's glorious to look at but my attention wandered.

We went out to Napoli's for Pittsburgh then drops the other shoe. She wants to go to Party City to get shit for the New Year's party that Prejudice Girl wants. OMFG. WHY??? So I said I'm not going. I'll go to my brother's or to that party I was invited to in Lawrenceville. I get home to learn my brother wants to come to this party (he loves New Years) head desk. Well with them there it might be bearable because I so do NOT want to go into downtown Pittsburgh (It's far too late to get a room and I don't want to drive back from there for obvious reasons). I am going on record to say 3 fucking parties with PG and her ugly husband is 3 too many.

Also I have to redo my convention research proposal. It was rejected. I'm not that surprised. That's rather common but boy the reviewer was a rude little dickhead about it. I think s/he's forgetting this is for h.s. and small colleges too, not just big universities. Also to add in everything s/he wants takes me WAY over their word count.

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[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

the first hobbit movie got horrible reviews

and eeep, good luck with the party

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I guess the Hobbit movie was a good version of the movie they decided to make - for me, it just wasn't the kind of Hobbit movie I would have made or wanted to see...

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even tell you what happened in any of the Hobbit Movies, except for all the squee about Watson and Sherlock being in it together.

And I know I've seen two of them.

Good luck with the party. Bring booze.

[elasg.livejournal.com]

Awww... I liked it too, though I spent most of the movie comparing it to book. Thorin dies in a tent, as I recall, but other than that, I was pretty happy with Mr. Jackson's respect for the source material. I guess he learned not to take the kind of liberties he did with LOTR - well, the 'romance' was extraneous, and silly, but Mitchell (or I guess we call him Kili in this flick) is hard to deny. ;)

You're in Pittsburgh? I didn't realize. We're about 3 hours from there in central PA.

Hope you find somewhere to spend New Years that's not a trial. ;)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

As far as I remember pretty much all of the last movie was made up. The book ended soon after Smaug's death. (though my novel is back home so I can't check) I didn't mind that or even all the extraneous crap. I did like it but I was pretty bored with the never ending fight scene after awhile.

My parents live in the PIttsburgh area (I grew up here). I'm in OH.

And thanks

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they were good but overly long, every one of them

the booze is here. that's the problem

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yeah I mean it was good but it wasn't really the Hobbit to me. I think much of that feeling is the pure annoyance at turning a book less than 170 pages into three 2 1/2 hour movies

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I liked it.

thanks I'll need it because my brother backed out and is going somewhere I can't go

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

It really was a lot of fighting. Also, not the story of The Hobbit. I could have done without the 3 extra sub-plots to make it more of a prequel to the Lord of the Rings than the story of The Hobbit.

[elasg.livejournal.com]

Actually, other than the 'romance' between the elf and dwarf, the last movie followed the book better than Jackson followed the LOTR in his other three films. Smaug dies about 3/4ths of the way through the book, which, if you cut the story up into 3s, is about right.

Sorry, my last fandom was LOTR - you'll have to excuse me if I come off as a canon-purist. I am a TOTAL Tolkien nerd - I mean TOTAL. I wrote WAY more LOTR fanfic than I have from any other fandom. It's a sickness...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

See I don't remember that at all and I just reread the book. I mean I've been rereading these things for 35 years and this seemed completely AU to me, not just the utterly unnecessary romance. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. It's possible. Rereading it before the first Hobbit movie was rather a mistake for me because I kept wondering if something was in the Silmarillion because it wasn't in the slim 150 pages I read (and for that matter, it had been some time since I had reread and I had forgotten how much Bilbo whined) I don't reread the Silmarillion. Once was enough (ditto Children of Hurin)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yes, they tried overly hard to fit it into LoTR and man I'm not even sure the timeline works. Do hobbits age faster? How else could Bilbo get so old but Aragon is still 30ish?

[elasg.livejournal.com]

There was a bit of extra stuff in these Hobbit films that was only mentioned in the LOTR as something that happened in the past, like the defeat of the Necromancer at Dol Guldur - or the sacking of Dale (the first time) they happen in the films at the correct point in time, but it is never mentioned in the Hobbit. So, there is extra stuff, but it's not necessarily AU.

Don't feel bad - it took me 3 attempts (at 15, 23 and finally 35) to get through the Silmarillion. Now, I love it and re-read it periodically, though I understand what you mean. Morgoth's Ring and Sauron Defeated were one time reads for me because they are so much of the minutiae of the story that even I don't need. I quite enjoyed 'Letters' though.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I was still in h.s. the last time I read the Silmarillon. I just wasn't excited about it. I was an adult, of course, when his son put out the Children of Huirin. It was just plain awful (IMO)

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Aragorn ages slower, actually. He's something like 80 years old in LoTR. I think there's supposed to be around 60 years between the Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Ah okay. well that helps. Thanks

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I liked some of the scenes in Smaug's cave. Or someone's cave. With people running around and dodging- yeah, probably Smaug's cave.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's the part that bored me. I would have liked it if it were much much shorter

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hence 'some'. :D