i'm not trying to be offensive to the posters or personally attacking them but to me its getting kinda silly, they are entitled to their opinions but it seems a lot more users in this forum hate AUJ than like it or maybe the ones that liked the film are afraid to reply. The stone giants scene was one of my favorite parts in the film, the sequence was better done in the film than it was in the book, much more epic.

I've just finished writing the first of several articles on "the Physics of The Hobbit", wherein I've done a full analysis (at the request of a number of TORn members and moderators) of scenes such as "Goblin Town". The first article should be posted soon. I should also reiterate that I've no interest in trying to "defend" Peter Jackson or anyone else, but rather find the physical analysis interesting, and thus have done my best to be unbiased.

In regard to "Stone Giants": this is the second or third post that assumes that the half of the party that get stranded on one of the giants should have been smashed when that giant fell against the mountain. Running the scene again, however, I just don't see anything like that happening. The film definitely makes you think that might have happened; because of the "around the corner" angle, we (and Thorin, Fili, Bilbo and the other Dwarves who were not on the giant) also think that the others might have been smashed. When they round the corner, however, they see that there was a ledge the others were able to hop onto or were just dumped onto when the giant impacted the mountain.

Personally I was not a big fan of the Stone Giants scene; I recognized that the sequence was mainly inserted to have Bilbo need to be rescued by Thorin, and Thorin telling the others that Bilbo did not belong in the company, thus setting up Bilbo's decision to leave the Company and the ending where Thorin changes his mind about Bilbo. They could have done that without a "Perils of Pauline" action scene. But I think that the description of this scene should not be allowed to grow in the telling, as has happened with "Goblin Town".

there was just a post yesterday on this same forum that was complaining about the film. That's two threads in two days, i sure haven't seen two positive posts about AUJ. So you say the action scenes cross the line in suspension of disbelief? Ok...So how are any of the action scenes in AUJ more over-the-top than FOTR or TTT or ROTK? in FOTR you have a huge fire demon battling a wizard who somehow manages to defend himself from a gigantic sword and fire whip both of which come crashing down on him with a old wooden staff? In TTT you have talking trees which manage to destroy a citadel. In ROTK you have a invincible ghost army...Come on now.