Irrelevant. Not to mention the majority of people seeing the movie wouldn't have read the book. Even so, it wouldn't make sense to not explain the backstory between the two characters whether it was in the book or not.

Could be. I never heard the term before and had to look it up. From the descriptions it's not far off base with Judd Apatow movies: there's a vague script and every scene is basically ad-libbed out-takes and they pick the best take and use it in the movie and then somehow try to tell a story with all these ad-libbed scenes..it's fucking retarded. It's worse than an Adam Sandler production.

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that's because Azog wasn't even a character in the book so much as a name mentioned once in passing... but in dividing one book into three movies they realized movie #1 didn't have an easily identifiable villain to fill in some cookie-cutter Hollywood Action so what had been a random comment along the likes of "Orcs are dicks." "Totally, bra. Like that one that killed your gwamps." is suddenly half the movie. Instead of them running into a few orcs, as happens from time to time, they're being hunted by Azog the one-armed dwarf raper of legend. The only thing that needed explanation about the subplot was why they included/invented it in the first place.

What an utter load of shit. Movies don't include an explanation as to why a Director/writer/whoever decided to include a particular character, but audiences do need to understand what a major character's significance is to the story. Without this understanding it just wouldn't make sense. You're just being a cunt.

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so it's nerdy to not be interested in the backstory of every person/creature mentioned by name in LotR?

piffle. i wanted a movie of The Hobbit and what I got was LotR Episode 1: The Phantom Ringwraith.

You seriously have no clue about movies or stories in general. The whole point is to make the viewer/reader sympathize or relate to a character so you can have an emotional connection. It's a little difficult to do that when the character has no back story and you have no idea what they're fighting for...

incidentally, the movie only has 58/100 on metacritic and 65% on rottentomatoes... so apparently i'm not alone on this. i stand by my opinion that it was a rehash of the worst (and most unnecessary) visual gags from the LotR movies and that got in the way of the parts of the film that were done well (the beginning scene where Bilbo gets recruited, the trolls... basically all the parts that were actually in the hobbit).

I guess I missed the stairs. Whatever, they could have bribed the birds with seeds or pine cones or sumat.

I'm sorry but I have to point out that even such a serendipitous setup such as "stairs on a random cliff you might land on after an overnight flight from giant eagles" indicates how moronic the story is.

Seven Psychopaths = 7/10 - Entertaining and pretty funny. Worth a watch.

What? It's a massive fantasy film with hundreds of more extreme examples than stairs on a cliff and giant eagles. If you hate on it because of shit like that then don't watch fantasy films because they're obviously not your thing.

I'm not, I just find it odd that you take issue with steps on the side of the rock mountain and giant eagles considering the type of movie it is.

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Speaking of stupid movies that morons won't stop defending...

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Is it that difficult for you to believe the eagles dropped them in a place they knew they'd be able to get off? Or do you seriously think we're meant to believe it's some tremendous stroke of luck?