Saturday, December 28, 2013

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug




What can I really say about the 2nd installment in the Hobbit series?  I know!  The best way I could describe my love for this movie is that it’s: the Hermione Granger to my Ron Weasley (that sounds gross), the Chocolate to my Peanut Butter Cup or the skinny-dippers to my Jason Voorhees.  Before the Lord of the Rings trilogy even ended, I always considered these “middle-earth” films to be the highlight of the Holidays.  People (like my mom) would come up to me and say “what do you want for Christmas?” and “are you excited for Christmas morning?”, and to them I would say “of course I’m excited for Lord of the Rings!!”  In this 2nd movie Bilbo Baggins continues his quest with the group of unnaturally hairy midgets to reclaim their rather crappy homeland, and in this portion of the quest he runs into spiders, a bunch of drunk men and a rather creepy dragon.  That to me was the best part of the movie when Bilbo interacts with the Dragon for the fist time, because it’s with that scene that you got to see Director Peter Jackson’s Horror roots come out in an extremely chilling fashion, it's just too bad that that scene didn't involve a lawn mower destroying everyone in the room.

4 1/2 out of 5

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