millhouse: yeah, I saw The Conjuring recently too. During the whole film I kept on hearing Eddie Murphy's voice from this joke from Delirious

Hobbit 2 spoilers ahead




So I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last night. Pretty much same as the first film -- adaptation of the book with lots of "padding" in between to stretch it out as a trilogy. There's no more singing and the story is more action paced, but overall the padding stuff (i.e. Necromancer arc and a 'new romance') is pretty much superfluous. Having said that, the padding stuff isn't bad per se (at least no worse than in the first film). One moment I quite enjoyed was when we see the Orcs at Dol Guldur and we hear an Orc (presumably Azog) chanting in Black Speech without subtitles... I was able to understand every word he said and I found myself actually reciting the words with him! It is of course the iconic words "Ash nazg durbatulūk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulūk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul", which is also exactly what is carved on the One Ring. Gandalf translates these words to Frodo in Fellowship of the Ring but tells him that it's too dangerous to be read out in the language of the Enemy. And we also hear the One Ring say these words to Frodo when he puts the Ring on, although in that spooky wispy (yet booming) voice - whereas in this film we hear it being spoken more clearly. For those who've read the book and may be curious as to where the movie ends, it's when Smaug decides to fly off to attack Laketown -- then cut to credits!