The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Now I am a blogging machine!! I am in the saddle again!

I went and saw a glorious movie today, or yesterday (and back again) (ahaha, Hobbit joke) (not that clever, though) (sorry) (but get over it) (are the parenthesis annoying yet?).

Reasons this is a great movie:

• Beautiful scenery
• Beautiful people (Hello, Elves. I love you.)
•  Wonderful music
• Inspiring thoughts, so sort of thought-provoking if you ponder about it
• Symbolism=awesomeness
• Quotable
• Funny
• Made me want to watch LOTR
• It's the Hobbit
• The Hobbit was written by J. R. R. Tolkien
• ELIJAH WOOOOOOD!!!!!!! (Ahem, please excuse my sudden outburst of sunshine.)
•  The beginning.  It was a perfect tie-in for LOTR
• Peter Jackson, the director of the LOTR movies

Reasons this is a not so great movie:

• CGI was really weird sometimes
• Did not seem like the book I read
• Benedict Cumberbatch was not featured
• What was with the story arc about the albino dude?  Whaaat??
• Made Gollum more funny than he is in the book 
• Made up parts of it
• Bilbo was supposed to figure out Sting's awesome prowess by himself
• Bilbo did not try to defend Thorin
• What was with the ending? Gaaaaaaah, noooo.

Things I would add to the Hobbit to make it one bajillion times better:

• More elves
• Orlando Bloom (they could have fit him in. ... Somehow.)
• Benedict Cumberbatch

 So, these are my thoughts and you should read the Hobbit and then go see it. :)

Love,
Mariah