Escape to the Movies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

[TheSchaef]

Um...
"There literally was no contribution to the story from before George Clooney's 30-second appearance"

If by "from before" you simply meant "from", the sentence was badly put.

Only if you read "before" as "160 minutes before", as opposed to desiring to include that scene as being somewhat pointless.

That's not a comparative statement like you made.

No. It's the statement YOU made, based on a single example I cited.

It's only big compared with other apples, so you can't talk about the "bigness" without mentioning other apples - which is what you want me to do.

No, what I "want you to do" is NOT say "if you say this apple is big, then you are also saying that every other apple is big".

Maybe the film isn't about the characters?

... It was about the characters when you were lecturing me about the characters...

I haven't seen it for a while, but from what I remember...

... in a movie you don't seem to recall with crystal clarity. Makes me wonder why my one comment about one movie, with one scene as an example, was a hill you felt was worth dying on.

/waits for the lecture about how "the hill" was on Iwo Jima and not Guadalcanal.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

I have no idea what you're on about, in any of that drivel.

Let's get back to the Hobbit.