He'd sing a song about how heavy his heart is - called "The Midas Touch" (and in no way would it sound like the automotive jingle).

I think it's more a nod to the fact that the producers didn't want anyone getting angry at Stacks for being part of the one percent? They have to make him likeable, so making it clear that he didn't inherit, didn't start out better than anyone, is supposed to do that.

I watch these movies like I would a holiday special - I like to celebrity spot as they go by. At least the Nights at the Museums might make a child somewhere want to go to more museums, which makes me happy.

I don't get why Elsa is getting a strange sort of redemption around here. She bought Ma Petite for her show - for three cases of Dr. Pepper! She goes around collecting people! Plus she says at the beginning (and here I'm paraphrasing): "They would come for the freaks, but stay for the star." I found her entire series…

It's just one snake - but from different angles!

"Eventually, there’s a small army of murderous hobos, who pursue Nick and his bland friends with axes while loping sideways on all fours like deformed gorillas—a truly goofy sight."

"Sir, he specifically requested two hob-bits? Well, to share a family secret, my mother was half-elf."

He did already - it was the beginning of RotK.

Uuugh those silent bug pits still creep me out…

I partly agree. I agree that the dwarves aren't really likable, though my reasons are different. They side against everyone they meet - the elves (which is sorta justified in the second movie, but not in the first), Bard (he's helped us - let's kill him! Then let's betray him, since we can't kill him!), Bilbo (he's…

Maybe in 70 years he's become Grima Wormtongue?

Sort of - you are correct that Bilbo was hired to steal the Arkenstone.

Yep - and in these movies Galadriel's talking about darkness spreading, and Gandalf is being all spooky with Radagast, and there are omens and such. And then, supposedly, 70 years pass where Gandalf makes really good fireworks and loses initiative.

I like the idea of a phone doing anything reluctantly. That is how I'm going to look at loading screens now.

It speaks to the larger problem already identified here - that the action scenes force implausibility, and thus numb the audience. You don't care because you know no one is going to die/get hurt.

Thank you! That is one of my larger complaints - given the time span between the Hobbit and LoTR, and the fact that Gandalf didn't know about the Ring, there is no reason to have this giant foreboding build up in the Hobbit movies! It forces the Hobbit to be anticlimactic, when it would be just fine as its own story.

Let's wire the Governor!

They'd just attach the cam to the propeller, so you'd be right in that guy's mangled face!

Oh. Well….oh.

"Gotta bait dose clicks?"
There went all my positivity for the day. I'd hate you, but I try not to hate strangers.