I bet that it's probably only Thorin and Kili. Some will remember Balin - and also Dwalin but they will be remembered as the "old one" and the "grumpy one".
That is one of my main issues with the sequel to the Hobbit. I just don't care about them at all. If any of them die, it really dun bother me at all. Unlike the Fellowship of the Ring where when a member is killed, it effects us all.
In this case, it doens't mean much to me - not that i dispise them but there is no emotional connection with them. Even Thorin didn't seem like a nice dwarf in the sequel.
Not only the dwarfs, the elves too were the same to me. In fact, the depiction of the elves is so different! In the Two Towers, the elves sacrificed themselves and fought alongside with humans in a war that one could say had nothing to do with them.
But in the sequel, we see the elves as cunning and devious and selfish. Even the "good" ones like Legolas are boring.
But perhaps the point of the movie - or the trilogy is not the elves nor the dwarfs but the Hobbit itself!!! And in this case, i must say that Martin Freeman did brilliantly. In both movies. If not for him, i think we can just forget about the trilogy (unless we want to watch it just for the CGIs and the beautiful NZ landscape).
And the other attraction in this sequel is none other than Smaug! The scenes with Bilbo and Smaug are the best - just like the scenes between Bilbo and Gollum were the best in the first movie.
The only problem is that it takes sooooo long before we finally get there - and it took so long to say not much.
So how is the sequel? It was enjoyable and fun. There were some really good scenes (Bilbo and Smaug) but there was an emotional disconnect between me and the movie - unlike the LOTR movies.
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