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ecthelionsbeard
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Oct 25 2013, 3:27am
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Seriously, complaining will never change anything. Just enjoy it. The book is the book and the movie is the movie.
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bborchar
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Oct 25 2013, 3:29am
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A. I will buy tickets
B. I will watch the movie
C. I will know what actually happened in the movie and be able to discuss it :)
"I've been running all my lives, through time and space. Every second of every minute of every day for over 900 years, I fought for peace in a universe at war. Now the time has come to face the choices I've made in the name of the Doctor. Our future depends on one single moment of one impossible day. The day I've been running from all my life: The Day of the Doctor."
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 25 2013, 5:11am
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I wouldn't be so certain. Lurtz seems, whether by design or discipline, to have
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a much higher pain threshold. Azog falls to his knees when Thorin takes his hand. Lurtz looses an arm and takes a sword in the gut and is still trying to get close and personal. If Azog had dropped like that fighting Lurtz, Lurtz would not have stood there gawking the way Thorin seemed to. i was not saying i didn't find Lurtz a good villain, i did but he was rather one dimensional compared to Azog but yes like you pointed out he was created to be a killing machine. Now, the real question....who would win in a one on one fight...Lurtz or Azog?? my money would be on Azog.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 25 2013, 5:12am
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Clearly for some it is a big deal. It may not change anything, but it seems bold to
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suggest that anyone force themselves to enjoy a highly controversial and largely arbitrary change. Seriously, complaining will never change anything. Just enjoy it. The book is the book and the movie is the movie.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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MouthofSauron
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Oct 25 2013, 5:19am
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Nah, Azog would handle Lurtz by himself! Azog is taller than Lurtz, he has more combat experience than Lurtz...Azog would win. Ok so Azog "gawked" when his arm was chopped off but Lurtz committed suicide by sliding himself all the way up to Aragorn as if he was going to give him a kiss. At least Azog lived to fight another day.
take me down to the woodland realm where the trees are green and the elf women are pretty....Oh will you please take me home!!
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 25 2013, 5:29am
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No he didn't. Dain killed Azog, lad. They've done brainwashed you already. lol
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If being a foot taller was all that mattered, the dwarves would definitely have lost, and Gimli would have been sunk at Helm's Deep. Lurtz was very impressinve in his battle with Aragorn. I am not saying who would win, but I don't think it is a forgone conclusion in Azog's favour. Nah, Azog would handle Lurtz by himself! Azog is taller than Lurtz, he has more combat experience than Lurtz...Azog would win. Ok so Azog "gawked" when his arm was chopped off but Lurtz committed suicide by sliding himself all the way up to Aragorn as if he was going to give him a kiss. At least Azog lived to fight another day.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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MouthofSauron
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Oct 25 2013, 7:11am
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i'm obviously referring to the film!
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Lurtz was impressive  but Azog more so...Don't forget Azog has killed numerous dwarves too, Lurtz only killed Boromir and that wasn't even hand-to-hand that was just shooting arrows at him.
take me down to the woodland realm where the trees are green and the elf women are pretty....Oh will you please take me home!!
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Bumpypotato
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Oct 25 2013, 7:54am
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Restricting Azog to flashbacks - and possible more than just the one from AUJ - would probably have been the best way to include his character. For the record, I didn't really mind him in AUJ, and I actually thought he made a pretty decent enemy (albeit with too much screen time - that scene on Weathertop was utterly pointless), but thinking about it now, it would have been so much cooler to use Azog as a tool to explain some of the Dwarven history and to set up Bolg as the actual big bad orc. Book fans would be happy, and movie fans would be happy, since you still have a tangible enemy.
If they wanted to show Azog - and I completely understand the desire to do so because he is an interesting character - all they had to do was show him in flashbacks, etc. to build context with him. Since they thought that they needed a bad guy to chase the company throughout the first film Bolg would have sufficed there - but that was also unnecessary and the "pacing" problem was created in the first place by the production team changing the film from 2 installments to three.
There is no pacing problem - when you read the book do you feel like you'd rather be reading about a huge orc chasing the party on a giant warg? I suspect not.
The Azog/Bolg storyline from the book(s) is 100000 times more interesting than what they've come up with.
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Rembrethil
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Oct 25 2013, 4:58pm
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I got the idea that when Lurtz did all of this stuff, that he was this weird mutant hybrid. It reinforced the idea that he was Saruman's evil genetic experiment's spawn. Creepy.....
Call me Rem. Rembrethil is a lot to type!!
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ecthelionsbeard
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Oct 25 2013, 5:12pm
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The 'creep' factor and 'menace' was much higher for Lurtz. But Azog had a far greater screen presence and was just way more intimidating with his deep guttural voice and wide range of facial expression which added calculation and personality to his character. Indeed, Lurtz was essentially a mindless killing machine. Both work great in their respective roles. I will never understand the venom some people have for Azog.
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architecthis
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Oct 25 2013, 5:27pm
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and you're entitled to it. My opinion happens to align with what the critics have overwhelmingly stated - that it is only a mediocre film.
I don't doubt that it was a solid effort at all - it was a gargantuan effort! However, that does not make it a good film.
There are good things about it, but it is off the mark and suffers from poor decisions both on a design level and with unnecessary blatant changes to the source material.
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Elessar
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Oct 25 2013, 5:33pm
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They're like belly buttons. Everybody has one. lol
Whose right and whose wrong will vary of course. In the end I couldn't care less what the critics had to say. Their opinion isn't fact nor is mine for that matter. They welcomed to it but it isn't changing the fact that there are as many folks like myself and the previous poster who thought AUJ was awesome. So in the end I guess we're both right and wrong. Ah well. lol
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architecthis
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Oct 25 2013, 5:46pm
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wasn't arguing for the validity of the critics' opinions
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I was only stating that my opinion happens to align with their general consensus. I think most of them are also off the mark and rate the movie low due to the slow beginning etc. and if they understood the source material they'd know that the beginning, riddles in the dark, etc. are the films strong points.
It is a testament to how mediocre the film is that critics have by and large reviewed it as an action movie and based their assessments on those characteristics that merit a good action flick - you see, they don't get it, and the reason they don't get it is because it's not quite on the mark.
It's ALMOST a good film....sometimes
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Elessar
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Oct 25 2013, 5:58pm
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It appeared you were stating their their opinion is the correct one because you agreed with them. It also came across that this kind of made your opinion the defacto opinion, and anyone else was welcomed to their but was wrong. Their opinion, yours, mine are no more correct is what I was getting at.
Critics looking at this like an action movie are the reasons why I check out any critics at all. Half the time I wonder if these folks are clued in at all. Then I remind myself its their opinion and I go on by.
We will have to agree to disagree on the film being mediocre or almost a good film. I would stand to the last breath I take that this film was not only a good film but a pretty awesome film. Yes, I have read the source material and no I won't stick by PJ no matter what. 
Like I said in my previous post. Opinions are like belly buttons. We all got them.
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architecthis
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Oct 25 2013, 6:03pm
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LOL
I very much respect your opinion! And I am a little jealous even. I've actually watched the movie countless times for the parts I really like!
Hears hoping that the sequel blows all of our minds!!!!
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Elessar
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Oct 25 2013, 6:08pm
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I had to go with it again.
Cool. I don't mean to come across as being kind of grumpy towards you. So that wasn't my intent. I just kind of wanted to chime in when I saw something that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I support and respect anyones right to like/not like the film. I've just seen lots of posts over the last year that kind of feel like they're telling me what to feel. That tends to get old.
I hope the second film does especially for anyone who didn't enjoy part 1 as much as they thought. 
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 25 2013, 6:30pm
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Very much agreed. Except about not minding Azog. I was very irritated by his continued presence, though
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I agree he was a proper villanous character, but for what little we got out of him in way of dialogue etc., Bolg would have been a better fit from a story and continuity perspective. Also, Azog could have been given more lines in the flashbacks, so he would still factor well into the films. Restricting Azog to flashbacks - and possible more than just the one from AUJ - would probably have been the best way to include his character. For the record, I didn't really mind him in AUJ, and I actually thought he made a pretty decent enemy (albeit with too much screen time - that scene on Weathertop was utterly pointless), but thinking about it now, it would have been so much cooler to use Azog as a tool to explain some of the Dwarven history and to set up Bolg as the actual big bad orc. Book fans would be happy, and movie fans would be happy, since you still have a tangible enemy. If they wanted to show Azog - and I completely understand the desire to do so because he is an interesting character - all they had to do was show him in flashbacks, etc. to build context with him. Since they thought that they needed a bad guy to chase the company throughout the first film Bolg would have sufficed there - but that was also unnecessary and the "pacing" problem was created in the first place by the production team changing the film from 2 installments to three.
There is no pacing problem - when you read the book do you feel like you'd rather be reading about a huge orc chasing the party on a giant warg? I suspect not.
The Azog/Bolg storyline from the book(s) is 100000 times more interesting than what they've come up with.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 25 2013, 6:33pm
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I am mainly going on the finesse, agility and speed Lurtz displayed fighting Aragorn,
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a known badass. That performance makes me think that film Lurtz vs. film Azog isn't an obvious win either way. Both of them would stand a reasonable chance of winning or of loosing, and both have distinct but different advantages over the other, but nothing deal breaking, as opposed, say, to the Balrog, who would obviously kill them both in short order, even without resorting to spell-lore. Lurtz was impressive but Azog more so...Don't forget Azog has killed numerous dwarves too, Lurtz only killed Boromir and that wasn't even hand-to-hand that was just shooting arrows at him.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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swordwhale
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Oct 25 2013, 6:44pm
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sounds about right................
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Go outside and play...
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 26 2013, 12:38am
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I will try to make concise sense of it. For one thing, for most, it has little to do with Azog being poorly designed or portrayed.
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I think his design and performance were just fine, if not quite good. Here is the problem... The actual events surrounding his death, from, Thrain weeping and tearing his Beard and sitting a silent shiva, ere stating that the desecration of his father by Azog could not be borne, to the rallying of all the Seven Houses of The Dwarves, a thing that only happened because the greivous injury and insult to the heir of the Eldest of their Race was utterly intolerable to them, to the war, "They sacked every goblin stronghold they could find from Gundabad to The Gladden, And they hunted for Azog in EVERY den under the mountains, " to the final battle of Azanulbizar and the slaying of Azog, Dain hewing him down at the gate (for cinema sake, it could have been Thorin), but beholding the Balrog, the true lord and Terror of Moria, in the moment of his triumph, and going back to Thrain who now thought to reclaim the mountain with those famous words, ""We will not enter Khazd-Dum (Moria). YOU will not enter Khazad-Dum. . . It waits for you still, Durin's Bane (The Balrog). The World must change, and some other power must come before Durin's folk walk again in Moria.", all of it was MASSIVELY EPIC and deeply moving.
And when it was discovered that Peter was going to go bobcat wild and make THREE films of The Hobbit, it suddenly seemed very likely that this piece of history would find its way into the movie s. And, in a way it did. But, instead of that rich history, we get a not at all slain Azog running around like a massive, bald headed Captain James Hook, with not the slightest inkling that he was the one who caused the war and was the primary target of its Dwarven aggression. And for what? To have him fill a role much better suited to Bolg?
That is where the venom comes from. The fact that not all changes are for the better, and a change entirely without need is an objectionable change indeed. The 'creep' factor and 'menace' was much higher for Lurtz. But Azog had a far greater screen presence and was just way more intimidating with his deep guttural voice and wide range of facial expression which added calculation and personality to his character. Indeed, Lurtz was essentially a mindless killing machine. Both work great in their respective roles. I will never understand the venom some people have for Azog.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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MechaGodzilla
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Oct 26 2013, 1:30am
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Fully agreed. There was just no need for this change, and it's definitely not for the better. I can live with it, but it is and will probably remain my biggest issue with this trilogy.
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 26 2013, 3:40am
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unless Gandalf is badly shown up in Dol Guldur by Nazgul or in comparison to some of the rest of the council. lol. For now, this takes it. Fully agreed. There was just no need for this change, and it's definitely not for the better. I can live with it, but it is and will probably remain my biggest issue with this trilogy.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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Bumpypotato
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Oct 26 2013, 6:49am
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I guess I'm just hoping that his inclusion pays off.
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Although it might seem somewhat needless to keep him in the movies, if by the end of the third one they have somehow justified having both him and Bolg as antagonists, I am more than happy to overlook any canonical changes from the book. I suppose that's the main reason I haven't already given up on him, because none of us really know what to expect over the next year and a bit, and I want to stay open to the possibility that he may surprise us.
I agree he was a proper villanous character, but for what little we got out of him in way of dialogue etc., Bolg would have been a better fit from a story and continuity perspective. Also, Azog could have been given more lines in the flashbacks, so he would still factor well into the films.
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