Again, though, I suspect that BoFA: EE got bumped up for sheer volume. There's already a whack-load of fighting in the theatrical and the EE would only add more.
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I would much rather watch LotR than the Hobbit - because LotR is more intense. It was gritty and didn't rely on as many special effects as Hobbit did. The stakes were higher, and the plot moved much faster (well, somewhat faster). I can't tell if one is more violent than the other.
Coping with violence - in one of my drama classes, we learned how to stage fight scenes (both armed and unarmed), so I learned how to put together a swordfight for a performance. I also ended up learning how to do gore makeup (cuts, bruises, impalings, the like) - which is immensely fascinating, to be honest. So when I see a violent movie (like LotR), I tend to see the choreography and the skillmanship involved in putting together a fast-paced and complicated fight instead of the violent outcome. [Fun fact: for every minute of on-stage/screen fight, the actors have to rehearse an hour.] Same with gore - I focus more on /how/ the filmmakers created the gore instead "oh that person is seriously injured and it's super gross."
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I think part of TH's being darker than LotR (films, obviously) is that standards are a little different ten years later. When LotR came out, they purposely pushed it that close to the R rating. (Heard that in some behind-the-scenes video, but don't remember which.) Standards seem to have lowered at least a little in the meantime.
So the first Hobbit was great the first time I saw it (though as I say I was surprised by it.) however for current rewatchings I might skip the dragon attack in the begining. It's very well done, but it's hard for me to watch all the fire and pillars burning down and people running around screaming (like even I think little kids? before his momma finds him) and it's a little more desolation than I prefer in my movies. Still as an adult, I find some parts of LotR still bother me tooStatistics: Posted by Lil — Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:16 am
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Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:32 pm
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I liked Tauriel pretty much (I expected to hate her) even in the begining in of BotFA (except I do think she became a plot piece.) It's sad because Evangeline Lily didn't want to be part of another love triangle (I guess she was in the show she was part of before?) and that's what it ended up as. I didn't like legolas as much (he was good just not as great as LotR Legolas...) Fili should have still had commitment to his brother and Uncle over Tauriel. (Fili makes me so sad. He became my top favorite dwarf.) Still even though I didn't expect to enjoy BotFA because I found it enough parts that I enjoyed. It was still a moving movie for me, but I'm still sad that Fili and Kili didn't die defending their uncle "with Shield and body."
(I'm still surprised how much darker the Hobbit movies seemed than LotR which I had trouble with I first began LotR) I started reading the book again and it made it so much sadder when Kili and Fili and Thorin died.
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I did see that BOTFA extended edition was rated R. I almost found that strange. I don't remember BOTFA really being as violent as I had expected in itself.
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Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:33 am
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A bit off topic here, I got two HUGE BoFA movie posters from our local cinema. One is with Bilbo pointing his sword outwards and the other is of him kneeling. You can imagine how excited I was to get them even if they are for Eria's party.
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Love your set, btw, Ella.
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