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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies |OT| One last time

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Looks like the theater I saw the last two in HFR at isn't doing HFR this year. I'd say that's a bummer, but another theater not too much farther away has the HFR version, so I guess I'll still get to see it that way regardless.

I kinda think the only reason I'm making such an effort to see these in theaters is so I can see the HFR while I still can, since public opinion seems to be against it, and there's not really any home version of it (not even with a pulldown). A shame, as I'm actually quite a fan.
 
I've come this far, gotta see this thing through to bitter end.

You may have Legolas's bow but you only have my totally-unenthusiastic, begrudging pledge to see this I guess whatever.
 
Todd Mccarthy THR :

After six films, 13 years and 1031 minutes of accumulated running time (far more if you count the extended versions), Peter Jackson has concluded his massively remunerative genuflection at the altar of J.R.R. Tolkien with a film that may be the most purely entertaining of any in the collection (tellingly, it is also, by far, the shortest of the sextet).
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lastplayed said:
Cate Blanchett.
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Can't drum up enthusiasm even if Desolation of Smaug was better than An Unexpected Journey. Still, will go to see it of course.
 
Whilst I enjoyed the first two instalments. They aren't any where near what LOTR were. They really lack the grandiose the original trilogy had in spades. There is something missing from them that I can't really put my finger on.
 
Thinking about it, the hobbit movies seem to have a greater fantasy feel than LOTR, whereas LOTR felt almost like biblical epic movies with huge events that you really made you feel like you were witnessing the events of history within middle earth, rather than just a fairy tale of those events. It is really hard to explain how I find them different.
 
SuperEpicMan said:
Whilst I enjoyed the first two instalments. They aren't any where near what LOTR were. They really lack the grandiose the original trilogy had in spades. There is something missing from them that I can't really put my finger on.
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Maybe a point. Bilbo could just turn around a go home at any point, with little to no consequences to himself or Hobbiton.
 
SuperEpicMan said:
Whilst I enjoyed the first two instalments. They aren't any where near what LOTR were. They really lack the grandiose the original trilogy had in spades. There is something missing from them that I can't really put my finger on.
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Maybe because "The Hobbit" is a children book and kids don't care about "grandiose " things ? :)
 
Can't wait. I've been watching the DoS appendices. Wonderful stuff. I'm basically going to come out of the movie immediately awaiting its extended edition.
 
Aklamarth said:
Maybe because "The Hobbit" is a children book and kids don't care about "grandiose " things ? :)
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The thing is, PJ has tried to adapt the book as if it isn't, and I feel like the narrative doesn't work with him trying to replicate the tone of the LOTR movies.

In the LOTR it was like David and Goliath where the protagonists were up against Sauron who in the movie is portrayed almost like an eternal force who is epitome of evil. The movies are purely good vs evil on the biggest scale, and you also have a broad spectrum of characters in between as well as the politics and conflicts that go on in the world between the protagonists. I guess the hobbit movies just come across shallow in comparison. There isn't really any weight in them if that makes sense.
 
Booked in to see this at the BFI iMax with my daughters on the 27th. Radio silence until that point... so I'll check back in then! ^_^

Expecting to be entertained, and more than a little baffled at some of the changes. Also, really hope they give Beorn some serious screen time in the battle.

*unsubscribes*
 
I keep telling my senior-citizen neighbor that this will be the last (new, non-remake) Middle-Earth film for at least good number of decades due to Christopher not releasing the rights for anything further. He keeps telling WB will persuade Chris due to money.

Oh well, I know this will be the last one for a long while, so I'll fully enjoy my time with it. Count me on the hype train!
 
I think WB will probably have plans for another few movies in the pipe line. Im not sure what they would adapt, but I think they have probably made too much money to leave the IP alone for good. I can see them pooling different material from here and there to make a new trilogy out of the other middle earth tales, such as Melkor or something.
 
Aklamarth said:
Maybe because "The Hobbit" is a children book and kids don't care about "grandiose " things ? :)
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One of the failures of the films is that they are over-bombastic, over-epic, over-budgeted and over-produced. They don't know when to quit.
 
SuperEpicMan said:
The thing is, PJ has tried to adapt the book as if it isn't, and I feel like the narrative doesn't work with him trying to replicate the tone of the LOTR movies.

In the LOTR it was like David and Goliath where the protagonists were up against Sauron who in the movie is portrayed almost like an eternal force who is epitome of evil. The movies are purely good vs evil on the biggest scale, and you also have a broad spectrum of characters in between as well as the politics and conflicts that go on in the world between the protagonists. I guess the hobbit movies just come across shallow in comparison. There isn't really any weight in them if that makes sense.
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I agree with this. It feels caught between the epic scope of LOTR and the childlike tone of the Hobbit, never reaching the highs of either. It would have been better to scale down the focus, it isn't as if the adventures of Bilbo lack epic moments.
 
I honestly don't think certain people were ever going to be happy with how The Hobbit turned out. If it had been a straight adaptation of the book with the more childish tone, people would've just complained that it didn't feel like it fit in the same universe as LotR. It was a lose/lose situation. And regardless of the approach they took, it was never going to be as epic as LotR, which is a common complaint as is.
 
Scullibundo said:
Nah. He probably just cut out most of the scenes with Bilbo.
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Don't worry they make it up by having a totally pointless character re appear every 15 mins for absolute bottom tier comic relif.

If you thought the first one was "OK" your going to think this is awful.
If you thought desolation was bad, well your in for a fun 3 hours.
 
Scullibundo said:
Nah. He probably just cut out most of the scenes with Bilbo.
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As for Bilbo Baggins – well, he doesn’t have a whole lot to do. Martin Freeman is as likeably careworn as ever in the part, but as Jackson shuffles and prods events towards the gargantuan confrontation signalled from the outset, it is evident that Thorin is the film’s pivotal character, and the one with the most repeatedly inspected “journey”. Bilbo has a couple of errands to run, a ring to fiddle about with, but not much else – and certainly not much in the way of fighting. Jackson, for understandable reasons, has concentrated his cinematic fire on the clang of swordplay and the roar of battle; this consigns Bilbo to a peripheral role throughout. Of course, and I don’t think this is too much of a spoiler, his return to the Shire is calibrated for maximum heartstring-tugging, as well as one or two bits of business to close the loop to the Lord of the Rings movies.
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http://www.theguardian.com/film/201...-of-the-five-armies-review-film-peter-jackson
 
ratcliffja said:
Really, really excited for it. I loved the first two Hobbit movies, so hopefully this one will be a satisfying conclusion.

Edit: I tried watching the 48 FPS 3D of the first movie after getting a PS4 this weekend, but it's pretty disorienting. Everything seems to move in fast motion, which is weird. I don't think I could watch such a long movie in 3D without getting a headache either.
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The 48fps version is available outside of theaters?
 
Can't wait! As a New Zealander I've always felt extra connected to these films. An amazing fantasy franchise I would have been into regardless, but the fact that it was created (literally) in my backyard just makes it all the more special to me.

I shall miss my Christmas tradition of going to see Middle Earth movies with my Dad and little brother. But I shall really enjoy it one last time. :)

FOR FRODO!
 
Conrad Link said:
Can't wait! As a New Zealander I've always felt extra connected to these films. An amazing fantasy franchise I would have been into regardless, but the fact that it was created (literally) in my backyard just makes it all the more special to me.

I shall miss my Christmas tradition of going to see Middle Earth movies with my Dad and little brother. But I shall really enjoy it one last time. :)

FOR FRODO!
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Have you been to Hobbiton? Amazing place.
 
Legolas should have been teh main character and we should had a movie of him fighting uruks for 3 hours on different settings.

Can't wait to see this one.
 
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