• sass elf lord of the rings

    The Distillation of Smaug

    Goddamn, this movie pissed me off.  It was so damn long, so filled with meaningless filler with little-no-transition or flow.  That barrel riding scene was absolutely ridiculous, way longer than it needed to be.  And the battle was so ridiculous, like when Legolas is jumping from barrel to barrel, pulling off perfect shots on tipsy dwarf heads Wisconsin Dellsing it down a raging river, killing orcs before he can see them. Then tedious political conversations with elves & men, orcs-orcs-orcs, some new guy who’s not Aragorn. And basically all I’m thinking ‘where’s the dragon, get to the dragon, I know there’s a dragon, it was in all the commercials, all…