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[b]Your opinions on the Desolation of Smaug?[/b]
I thought I'd ask you peeps for your opinions. :3 give your honest opinion and don't bash others for their opinions (obviously ;P).
For me, I personally believe that the movie was an okay one. The CGI was great, the action wonderful, and Smaug was of course fantastic. But me, being the book fan, believes that PJ did not pay homage to the book at all. I know that movie adaptations can't always be exact, as some things simply can't be put to the big screen, but just... seriously? What's with this crazy Legolas-Tauriel-Kíli love triangle going on? I understand why Tauriel may have been added into the movie and I like the character, but all that lovey-dovey nonsense was completely useless and diverted attention from the original plots, IMHO.
Azog as a character annoys me, too. He should've died long before events in the Hobbit took place! Couldn't PJ just use Bolg as a side antagonist and leave Azog alone?
Overall, I believe that DoS was a good movie, but now I view it more as an excellently-written piece of severely-AU fanfiction than an actual movie adaptation of the original book.