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   From: holliday@acm.org   
      
   Arrgh! I just noticed my reader has moved its buttons around,   
   so the reply I just posted was an email to Steuard rather than   
   a reply here.  So here goes again.  Thunderbird users take note.   
      
   Good review, Steuard.  A couple of little comments.   
      
   On 12/27/2012 3:06 PM, Steuard Jensen wrote:   
   > And along with all that, you have to   
   > strike some sort of balance between the often silly, childlike tone of   
   > the primary source material in /The Hobbit/ with the mature, epic   
   > scope of the broader story to be told.   
      
   Which means balancing a children's story with a dark, violent action   
   flick.  Most of the things I did not like in the movie were failures   
   to balance these well.  One good example: the Great Goblin, especially   
   his final confrontation with Gandalf.   
      
   I noticed most of the previews I saw before the movie were for   
   children's movies, rather than for action flicks.   
      
   > Finally, Radagast. Oh my, Radagast. There's not a lot to say about him   
   > that the movie didn't already say itself, really. So I'll just repeat   
   > my first exclamation after the movie:   
      
   I disagree with what Jackson did with Radagast, but Sylvester McCoy   
   did a decent job interpreting what the script asked him for.   
   That casting, of course, makes this movie a mash-up of Middle Earth   
   and Doctor Who.   
      
   I don't mind Jackson trying to make Radagast a useful plot element.   
   I just think he failed.   
      
      
      
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   Glenn Holliday holliday@acm.org   
      
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