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readitlikeanegg

The Hobbit

Dec 31, 2014 13:29

I saw 'The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies' last night.

[spoilers]Thoughts: in general, nowhere near as bad as most of the reviews I read had led me to believe. I mean, I'm not going to go rushing out to buy the DVD, but it was fairly enjoyable for a couple of hours. It didn't feel overlong to me, which was my main fear. I liked the little inclusions ( Read more... )

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moffel83 December 31 2014, 15:57:05 UTC

I didn't like the movie at all :(

I was really disappointed that there were no real resolutions for a number of characters and certain name-dropping was just too forced (Thranduil mentioning Aragorn who was ten at the time?!?). I was disappointed that there were certain characters you saw in the battle and then never heard of or saw again without finding out their fate. Did they survive? Did they die? If you haven't read the book that must have felt quite disappointing...

Some of the dialogue was just painful (that whole Thranduil-Tauriel love conversation for example).

I am generally not a fan of big battle sequences and had very low expectations of this movie right from the start, so at least I wasn't too disappointed :(

But I loved Martin Freeman and the Hobbiton ending :D

readitlikeanegg January 13 2015, 16:45:35 UTC

I think the things you hated are the same things I hated about this film. :P

*certain name-dropping was just too forced (Thranduil mentioning Aragorn who was ten at the time?!?

Ugh, this bit made me cringe so much. Why did that line make it in? Hated it.

I wish there had been more Martin Freeman too!

itstonedme January 3 2015, 21:34:59 UTC

SPOILER ALERT: DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM YET ( ... )

readitlikeanegg January 14 2015, 16:46:03 UTC

I still am not a fan of 3D, so we saw The Hobbit in 2D and I honestly didn't notice any scenes where a 3D effect would have enhanced it.

* I would have liked the first film to have ended with Bilbo awakening Smaug so that the entire Smaug episode wasn't broken at the point before Laketown. That ten minute Smaug sequence at the start of the third film was just nuts in its brevity.

Definitely agree - it would have made a much better cliffhanger to end a film on.

I actually quite liked Alfrid. :P But you're right, more of the dwarves were needed. And as for Bard, I felt like they spent such a long time on him in the second film, just for him to be mainly forgotten about in the third.

Martin Freeman's brilliant, isn't he? When I first heard he was cast, I wasn't sure, but now I couldn't imagine anyone else as Bilbo (even Ian Holm, which is a shame really).