"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THESE @#$% WRAITHS IN THE SHIRE!!!"
Yeah, substituting Laurence Fishburne for Bilbo, in order to have a Tolkien black character ...
And Bilbo raising the Arkenstone from Smaug’s dwarf hoard, with the ‘shout out’: “Bling bling! Fo’ shizzle mah nizzle!”.
Well, call me old fashioned but blah blah blah blah blah.
They could have spent more time on the battles in the Shire following Saruman and bad men seizing control, after Morder crumbled. “Hobbit trilogy”: those of us who read everything, and The Silmarillion, will keep our expectations very, ahem, conservative and reasonable.
"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THESE @#$% WRAITHS IN THE SHIRE!!!"
“They could have spent more time on the battles in the Shire following Saruman and bad men seizing control, after Morder crumbled.”
The ‘Cleansing of the Shire’ was a very important part that I understand was left out of the new film. It really provides closure to the tale and shows what a bunch of hard-cases the fellowship has become.