![]() I don't recall any such orc being a part of the book, so basing the entire first movie's plot around this was a bit off-putting. In fact, the primary conflict of the plot revolves around an albino orc seeking revenge against the dwarf Thorin for cutting off his hand in a battle years ago. ![]() I'm not that big of a Tolkien fan, and have only read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, so there is a lot of material in this movie that I simply didn't recognize as being from the namesake novel. In an attempt to pad out the movie's length into a trilogy, Jackson and company decided to incorporate several independent plot threads from Tolkien's catalogue of Middle-Earth stories. The movie's tone shifts wildly from light-hearted fantasy to overly-serious forebodence.The story loses its narrative focus and suffers cinematically from poor pacing and confusing scene transitions,.Not content to simply tell the first-person (well, technically "second person") account of Bilbo Baggins' adventure to The Lonely Mountain and back again, this Hobbit film tries to incorporate other plot threads from the complex tapestry of Tolkien's extended Middle-Earth lore. The movie struggles just to figure out what it is trying to do and tries so hard to pad itself with irrelevant Tolkien lore that it eventually starts to fall apart cinematically. Peter Jackson doesn't seem to understand what he's trying to do with the film adaptation, subtitled An Unexpected Journey. ![]() The book was written as a simple children's adventure tale told from a singular point of view, and that is what it is loved for. The Hobbit is a pretty tough story to screw up. ![]()
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