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Vote up the scenes from 'The Hobbit' that you find most frustrating.
Although The Hobbit trilogy depicts a well-beloved world with dynamic characters and famous plot lines, it's relevance to The Lord of the Rings and inherent comparison to the Oscar winner can only be to its detriment, and fans have been only too happy to point out its flaws and their frustrations with the trilogy.
Below, fans on Reddit have shared which scenes they find the most frustrating in The Hobbit trilogy, vote up the ones you agree with!
During that awful chase under the Lonely Mountain, Smaug went from being an awesome force of evil who Gandalf himself and the rest of the White Council fears, to a clumsy dope who can't kill a single dwarf even when one literally falls into his mouth.
They build Smaug up for two movies to be this ultimate threat, one of the most dangerous creatures Middle-Earth has ever seen - and then he can't get a single dwarf! Even when one is f**king standing on top of his mouth and all he would have had to do is open it! So from this point on, how am I supposed to feel any kind of tension?
Instead of Gandalf having them come inside two at a time [to distract Beorn, like in the book], they all just rushed into Beorn's house and locked him out? Apparently now he's just an uncontrollable beast in bear form and in human form he could give two sh*ts that a bunch of Dwarves and a Wizard locked him out of his own home? It just doesn't add up.
All of the cool, mysterious things about him are taken out and he's just left as a big doofus talking in a deep voice going, "I hate dwarves... I hate orcs more..." F**k off.
Legolas' action scenes were so over the top, but nothing was more frustrating than Legolas upside down just waving his arms back and forth and decapitating people. Things like that don't just break your suspension of disbelief - they destroy it utterly.
I think the exact moment I said, "Oh f**k this," was in The Battle of the Five Armies, when the big "surprise" was when the elves lept into battle against the Orcs.
That moment was just so illogical - why would an army, who is known for their bow-and-arrow skills, be charging in to fight in hand-to-hand combat, and why would they jump over a perfectly good shield wall??
The pure idiocy of the elves jumping over the shield wall from a tactical standpoint was what finally pushed me over the edge and caused me to start laughing at that piece of sh*t/garbage pile of a movie.
