when did the dwarves fall hundreds of feet as a result of the stone giants?? they fell with one of the stone giants but they were holding on to it while it fell lol. Please watch the scene again, no dwarf fell a hundred feet and survived.

a stone giant collided with a side of the misty mountains. the dwarves were not crushed because it clearly showed that they survived the collision by falling into a hollowed out side of rock and were spared being crushed to death.

"Tolkien never threw his characters hundreds of feet right?"

All due respect to your degree and majors in laws of physics but these are FANTASY films not historical films or films which are trying to emulate reality. I mean geesh, where in the laws of physics can a wizard turn a pinecone into flames? I mean if we are going by laws of physics than yeah there are 1,000 things that could never happen in AUJ.

on my first viewing i was slightly disappointed too but i realized that these films are not supposed to be LOTR's copies, this is a completely different story which is set in the same world so it should have a different feel than LOTR's. After viewing the film a few times i can say it has a much better re-watch factor than FOTR. -Not that FOTR is not as good it just takes longer for that film to start moving.

not a reality based film. I highly doubt a giant rock like that could move 87,000 miles per hour. Watch the scene again, the stone giant was falling slowly and after the impact the dwarves & bilbo were in a hollowed out piece in the side of the stone giant and they fell onto a ledge not against the side of the misty mountains.

I responded to MouthofSauron's comment about whether there were any people feeling positive about the film, and he responded to my post. It wasn't my intention to go off-topic or anything. Just having a little side conversation. Sorry.

look to other movies which are rooted in non-fiction for your in-depth physics analysis.

maybe we'll see Mitch in the front row for the opening night of DOS haters hate but the haters keep coming back for more of Peter Jackson's middle-earth films lol. I'm not calling you a hater Mitch that was just a comment toward other people who just hate AUJ for the sake of it, i know you don't hate the film.

..if you define it as ridiculous. Doesn't seem so to me, and reading the posts here it seems that others have accepted the scene as it is and can't see a problem.

The dramatic focus there is Thorin; the scene is telling the audience how much he cares for the company and feels his responsibility towards them - despite his comment to Gandalf about not being responsible for Bilbo. It shows how far he will go to protect them - while still being grouchy. That's why. Try focussing on dwarves rather than rocks, particularly on Thorin.