People aren't "whining" about altering the source material. They're complaining that it was altered badly.

I also agree. Especially once they got to the mountains, I started to have fun. It naturally brings Moria to mind from the LotR films. It felt like we were at the start of a fun, well-told adventure. We weren't, but it did seem like it for much of that film.

Was it? I found it more confusing than compelling. She just collapsed and did nothing for no clearly explained reason. Then she went all angry-face which just felt to me like awkwardly rehashing Fellowship for the sake of it - it reminded me more than anything of how George Lucas spent most of the prequel trilogy on…

I think that's a bit unfair on Harry Potter. Two films was clearly the right length for that book.

What was it "about"? Thorin contracting a medical condition?

Several of the Laketown scenes have been cut, such as Bard's imprisonment and the superfluous orc raid.

The first thing I thought after watching The Battle of Five Armies was "boy, that's a movie that didn't need to be made". Now, thanks to the power of fans and the internet, we can pretend around half of Peter Jackson's entire Hobbit trilogy never happened.

Yeah, they seem to vary between pretending it never happened and outright nationalism.

I don't know what flag you're thinking of, but I'm talking about the swastika flag of Nazi Germany.

That's what the word "like" is for.

Disney themselves decided to alter the Korean version so as not to offend Koreans.

Remind me who's censoring this film?

So you'd be okay waving a swastika flag in public? 'Cos it's just an old flag right? No problemo.

It's not just a sunrise, the image is obviously intended to invoke the rising sun symbol. Either you didn't notice or your incredulity is disingenuous. Nobody's saying ban the sun.

Go wave a Nazi Germany flag at a holocaust memorial service and tell me how unoffended everyone is about it.

That's a joke, right?

It's not so ridiculous. From their point of view it's like going to watch a kid's film only to find it has swastika posters and a giant swastika sunset.

Something weird is going on here.

You guys realise he's being facetious, right?

It's called humour.