I continue to be amazed by these movies. Every frame, every fired Elven arrow, every note of music is made with a perfect, unalloyed love of cinema. Is the plot unnecessarily convoluted? Yes. Do the action scenes go on
too long? Yes. Is that a problem for me? No. It’s a spectacular movie to behold
and I don’t mind the half-hour side-trips that lead to almost nothing. Because I
trust Peter Jackson and I know that, at some point, he’s going to razzle-dazzle
me with the most amazingly bad-ass, deep-voiced, sinister, fire-breathing dragon
to ever grace the silver screen. And I trust that Bilbo will not be too afraid
of it, for numerous convoluted reasons. And I trust that at the end of it all I’ll
be blown away by the value I got for my entertainment dollar.
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