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Dude, this film was crazy exciting!Magic moments: The dragon kite, acting from the key three characters, the increased excellence of Gollum, the kingdom of Erebor, weapons and armor. Art direction and design and costumes and wigs and prosthetics and most of the special effects and visual effects were all great.Bad moments: Azog was both not actually Azog as written but he looked much less excellent than say, Gollum. But worse, the filmmakers talk often about keeping elements of the history and then completely bastardize those elements. Azog was already an exemplary character in the legendarium. Now he is a one-note bad guy who looks cartoonish on a cartoon wolf. The real problem with 48 fps is when things fall short on the animation side, they are much more obvious.
