Epic Final Trailer For THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (LQ)

Holy Crap YESSS!!!!

WOW that trailer truly does look epic. I hope the movie is just as good as the trailer.

Typical Peter JAckson revisionist bullshit.

Thankfully, now his raping of Professor Tolkien's works is over.

Unless he decides to do The Silmarillion in thirteen parts, including flying elves in jets, battle robots and Luthien Tinuviel in a tank blowing Morgoth's head off.

#hobbitfeels

Saruman "I will take care of Sauron"

/facepalm

BRING IT

@FerFogs

Was the Hobbit not more fantastical and a bit more over the top than LOTR? That's how I saw it anyway.

@Ceejay

Yes, aspects of the Hobbit were retroactively changed to connect with LOTR for continuity reasons. But no, it was not rewritten to be a prequel. The Hobbit remained a tale about Bilbo Baggins' quest to win a share of Smaug's treasure. The book's plot remained the same save for a few character changes - like Gollum's attitude when Bilbo cheats him of the ring - that were incidental to the actual story.

However, this movie franchise has been rewritten in such a way that is increasingly making it a LOTR prequel with each film. Actual character arcs being inserted into the narrative that have more to do with establishing connections to the Fellowship's future quest to destroy Suaron's ring than Bilbo's present journey to defeat Smaug. You can see the increasing changes with each film as Jackson tries to add more characters and subplots to the basic story in order to connect the end of this "trilogy" with The Fellowship of the Ring.

The sad part is that a tale which should be about Bilbo is increasingly becoming less and less about his adventure to cash in on the public's expectation that the events of LOTR are around the corner. There's no reason for Legolas or Saruman to be in this story as it has nothing to do with them at all.

I have to agree with RorMachine. I mean doesn't every adaptation whether being based on a book or a comic book make changes. Why can we excuse certain films and not forgive The Hobbit for making these changes?

I'd rather wait for HQ.

Mind you, these were the same people who couldn't find a space in FOTR to give us even a glimmer of Tom Bombadil but had the balls to [frick] with the Hobbit so badly that they invented Tauriel to insert a female love interest so they could exploit another formulaic forbidden romance story.

"The technology that went into making the Hobbit did not exist when making LOTR, if it had then rest assured PJ would have used even more CGI in LOTR."

Then I'll just remain thankful that the LotR movies were made when they were made, and not today.

Peter Jackson might the most overrated big budget director of all time. He takes everything interesting and thoughtful in a property and substitutes a lot of flashy special effects in its stead. A shame really that such a mediocre filmmaker gets a free pass because he's made so much money.

@ RamonSuarez. I'm sure people have gripes with LOTR, but the way they explain their gripes with the Hobbit comes off as oblivious to the very similar direction PJ took with the highly successful LOTR. But truth be told, PJ could have made 5-6 movies with the LOTR, each 2.5 hours long that went into depth in illustrating all of the aspects of the book.

RoTK overrated?

For. [frick]. Sakes.