Hobbit: Battle of the 5 Armies

[davidsp]

Anyone seen the Hobbit movie, Battle of the 5 Armies, yet. We saw it yesterday. What did you think of it?

Possibly a spoiler alert....
Lots of pretty awesome battle scenes like in return of the king. But in some ways that's what happened in most of the movie. I liked in the first two that there were times where there was some humor but didn't really see it in this movie. I did like how everything got tied up and there is an epic scene where Gandalf gets rescued from Sauron and a fight with the nazgul. the orc leaders azog and bolg are also really well done i thought.

I'm a big lotr fan so I loved it. definately will get the extended version when it comes out. i still think that return of the kind is my fav of the 6 films.

[CosmicNoodle]

From what I've heard, its nothing more than a lot of battle scenes with little worth seeing Ind between. Apparently you can really tell that its just filler designed to stretch out the series, ergo part suckers with there cash

[Taryn98]

I still haven't watched the 2nd one. I loved LOTR, even the extended versions, but thought the first Hobbit movie was way too long and boring and hated the fact that they added things that weren't in the books into it.

[Horatio Nelson]

It was awesome, my favorite movie in the series. The scale was insane, it felt so immersive.

So sad there won't be anymore LOTR/Hobbit movies anymore though. :(

[Starling City]

I saw all three back-to-back in the theater during a marathon. I'd rank them in this order:

1. The Desolation of Smaug
2. The Battle of the Five Armies
3. An Unexpected Journey

They were really well done, I thought. I absolutely loved Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf. He is the type of wizard I'd totally be. :P Smaug was also very cool and the cliffhanger from the second to final chapter was insane. At least I only had to wait about 15 minutes from the end of the second to the beginning of the third. xD

There were some crazy battle scenes in the final chapter. They built it up well to the intense final fight between not two, not three, not four, but five armies. There were some meh parts in the trilogy as a whole, some things I'd do differently, but overall, quite an astonishing world and cast of characters.

[Plane And Simple]

I'm not that big of a fan but i really liked the previous one. Will go see this one as well, but as far as I know its more battle stuff than anything else.

[Dortmund]

I quite enjoyed the film personally, definitely nowhere near as good as the Desolation of Smaug but that was always going to be a tough one to live up to.

[BlackParadePixie]

I honestly thought it was kind of a let down. The whole battle of the 5 armies just seemed too manufactured...and I really wasn't emotionally invested in it...not like many of the LOTR battles...Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields. In those battles I cared about the characters fighting, I knew it was good vs. evil...this was just a bunch of people squabbling over a bunch of gold. I've only seen it once and really don't have any desire to see it again in the theatre, whereas all 3 LOTR movies I saw multiple times.

[eli_w]

Hated it ;(

All three lord of the rings movies were awesome, the first two hobbit movies were amazing

This one wasn't great... The cheesy dialogue, unrealistic conflict and action (i.e. legolas jumping up a falling bridge, seriously wtf was that), plot gaps and inconsistencies, etc
The audience in my theater literally laughed out loud at some serious points of it

I reckon it's probably because they were trying to base a 2 and a half hour movie off of 30 pages in a childrens' book