Post by X factor on Aug 31, 2014 2:49:22 GMT -5
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
As I watched this movie, 'The Hobbit, Desolation of Smaug', I found myself becoming annoyed at the unrealistic odds over come by the dwarves and Elves.
Not even real life Marines can just run through enemy territory and unrealistically slaughter 1000's of opposing forces at will.
No two people are that unevenly matched, and in the modern world weapons combined with technology are really all that separate men, forces.
But in the Hobbit it's just will, iron and physical endurance that separates combatants.
And there's no way 4-5 feet Dwarves, a group of 8 or 10, would be able to take out 200 Orcs, Trolls, Goblins and a Dragon.
In order for me to be drawn to 'the good side' there has to be a level of believability to characters.
If the sold called 'heroes' suffer no casualties or loss throughout the movie, yet slaughter 1000's, then after a while I begin wondering if indeed they are 'good'.
Are they good or just self serving?
Seems in this movie the only ones doing all the killing are the Dwarves and the Wizard as they slay countless Orcs and anything else that gets in their way...and for what...Gold??
In the movie they're doing all this fighting for Gold.
There's really no good vs evil envolved on a moral level, the movie just happens to take the side of Dwarves, who behave like Pirates.
And Elves, who are so quick to kill and slaughter with their arrows, and of course man.
Not really sure why Orcs in the movie are portrayed as being so 'bad' other than the fact they've been bred to not like the above.
Yet in movie 1000's of them are slaughtered while the Dwarves don't suffer one loss.
Yet scene after scene are put into scenerios that in real life none would walk away from.
Yet in movie don't so much as receive a scratch while boulders fall on them, they fall off cliffs, leap through the air further than best known athletes could, while wearing heavy armor and gear.
The fakeness of it all just gets to me after a while, then I find self rooting for the villians, who after a while don't seem so bad to me.
Watch the movie, and in the movie the so called Orcs, trolls and other villians, hardly take anyone life.
Very very unrealistic.
How can I sympathize with the Dwarves and Wizard, when they're the ones doing all the killing and slaughtering in this movie?
Not only that but the lead Dwarf isn't all that likable of a character.
They writers keep trying to convince the viewers of the movie how 'bad and awful' the Orcs are and the dark forces that control them, but they don't demonstrate that.
In the movie it's the Dwarves and Wizard that go around terring stuff up and causing disruption and slaughtering all in there path.
As I watched this movie, 'The Hobbit, Desolation of Smaug', I found myself becoming annoyed at the unrealistic odds over come by the dwarves and Elves.
Not even real life Marines can just run through enemy territory and unrealistically slaughter 1000's of opposing forces at will.
No two people are that unevenly matched, and in the modern world weapons combined with technology are really all that separate men, forces.
But in the Hobbit it's just will, iron and physical endurance that separates combatants.
And there's no way 4-5 feet Dwarves, a group of 8 or 10, would be able to take out 200 Orcs, Trolls, Goblins and a Dragon.
In order for me to be drawn to 'the good side' there has to be a level of believability to characters.
If the sold called 'heroes' suffer no casualties or loss throughout the movie, yet slaughter 1000's, then after a while I begin wondering if indeed they are 'good'.
Are they good or just self serving?
Seems in this movie the only ones doing all the killing are the Dwarves and the Wizard as they slay countless Orcs and anything else that gets in their way...and for what...Gold??
In the movie they're doing all this fighting for Gold.
There's really no good vs evil envolved on a moral level, the movie just happens to take the side of Dwarves, who behave like Pirates.
And Elves, who are so quick to kill and slaughter with their arrows, and of course man.
Not really sure why Orcs in the movie are portrayed as being so 'bad' other than the fact they've been bred to not like the above.
Yet in movie 1000's of them are slaughtered while the Dwarves don't suffer one loss.
Yet scene after scene are put into scenerios that in real life none would walk away from.
Yet in movie don't so much as receive a scratch while boulders fall on them, they fall off cliffs, leap through the air further than best known athletes could, while wearing heavy armor and gear.
The fakeness of it all just gets to me after a while, then I find self rooting for the villians, who after a while don't seem so bad to me.
Watch the movie, and in the movie the so called Orcs, trolls and other villians, hardly take anyone life.
Very very unrealistic.
How can I sympathize with the Dwarves and Wizard, when they're the ones doing all the killing and slaughtering in this movie?
Not only that but the lead Dwarf isn't all that likable of a character.
They writers keep trying to convince the viewers of the movie how 'bad and awful' the Orcs are and the dark forces that control them, but they don't demonstrate that.
In the movie it's the Dwarves and Wizard that go around terring stuff up and causing disruption and slaughtering all in there path.
