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Post by Czor on Dec 11, 2014 22:37:50 GMT -5
So I just returned home from an advance screening of the Battle of the Five Armies in NYC and well, I must say I'm satisfied how this movie closed the entire Middle-Earth saga.
Is anyone else awaiting to see this movie (or like me has seen it already or will before the opening next week?)
Anyways I give it 4/5 starts...love it and I can't wait for the Extended Version to marathon all 6 movies.
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Post by tobychimp on Dec 12, 2014 4:54:58 GMT -5
So I just returned home from an advance screening of the Battle of the Five Armies in NYC and well, I must say I'm satisfied how this movie closed the entire Middle-Earth saga. Is anyone else awaiting to see this movie (or like me has seen it already or will before the opening next week?) Anyways I give it 4/5 starts...love it and I can't wait for the Extended Version to marathon all 6 movies. I would like to see it but I only know a few select people who would actually go to the cinema to watch it!  Really enjoyed the first 2 movies so I've got high hopes for this final installment and I'm glad that you found it satisfying. Would you say it's the best movie in the trilogy? How would you compare it to LOTR trilogy? |
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Post by Czor on Dec 12, 2014 6:50:22 GMT -5
My ranking for this trilogy is as follows: Unexpected Journey, Battle of the Five Armies and Desolation of Smaug. And I dunno, they are different comparable wise (LOTR has more of a risky-end of the world situation while The Hobbit is an adventure that just in at the last half of DoS and all BotFA becomes dire).
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Dec 18, 2014 16:02:31 GMT -5
I personally felt that this movie was entirely unnecessary. The Hobbit at best should have been two 3 hour and 15 minute movies . I absolute love the first trilogy and the first 2 Hobbit films, but this film was literally just a two hour and thirty minute battle.
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Post by sammiecassell on Dec 28, 2014 0:10:54 GMT -5
I'm along the same line as Captain Surperior, except the only one of the Hobbit movies I really liked was the middle one. To me this was just a big long battle sequence, and not as good of battles as LOTR. Thoran Oakenshield is my favorite middle earth character but I feel the Hobbit movies pale in comparison to the LOTR movies
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Post by henrythemorerecent on Jan 4, 2015 14:49:42 GMT -5
I've been loving these movies, but structurally this one made it super obvious this was meant to be a 2 movie series. This whole movie felt like a third act. Which sounds stupid because this is a trilogy so of course it feels like a third act. But when comparing it to the LOTR films, they each felt like their own film with an ending that, while still leading into the next part, had its own moral and story to tell. This felt very obviously like it was cut from Desolation.
That being said I will watch these again just for Martin Freeman. He's amazing. Also I feel like of all of these Hobbit movies this was the only one that felt like it was lacking something. The rest people said were overlong, but this will definitely benefit from an extended version. I feel like there's a whole Saruman moment missing. Speaking of, The White Council scene was amazing.
There's one thing that just makes LOTR feel weird though and its Radagast. I fully expected him to die in this not remembering his character from the LOTR books. Then I read he's the one who helps Saruman lure him to Orthanc but then helps him escape. So his character is just missing for the entire LOTR film series which seems like a waste now. Who knows. Maybe Peter Jackson will do a George Lucas and add moments into the LOTR series.
But it made me sad to know this will be the last visit to Middle Earth. That ending made me so happy, sad and nostalgic. |
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