POLL: How Would You Rate THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES?

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I just came for the comments..

I enjoyed the films but I went into it knowing there would be issues. Outside of the stretching of the story, the main problem is that the Hobbit was written as a children's story and written before the Lord of the Rings was thought out and expanded. It is a much smaller world. Ideally, they should have filmed the Hobbit first and then build up to the Lord of the Rings. They did not have the rights so they had to do it backwards. The Lord of the Rings wowed the world when it came out over a decade ago. Jackson has found himself with a smaller story set in a world that we have already seen. Having said this, I still enjoyed it (Although I miss the practical in camera effects found in the first film).

Personally i value the second as the best film in the series, given it had more of a structure to it than the others. We followed the characters, saw more of their development and had a conclusion that didnt involve a deus ex machina. The conclusion also being a much darker one, hinting that perhaps they've failed the mission.

The first one had terrible pacing but good character development, there was a lot more practical effects. Though far too much of the story was spent trying to stretch itself out which didnt help when only four of the Dwarves were given any character development. Granted thats more than the single Dwarf with character development in the book, but it just isnt enough to carry the story.

The third personally felt like just one anti-climactic battle scene after another. We get the Smaug fight, except it has no build-up and is over before the credits. Then the film just pads itself out until the battle, which is badly shot and repetitive (Cutting between action and the weak comedy relief character) Not helped by the logic defying actions of several characters, specifically Legolas defying gravity...

It's a solid 4/5 for me. Not perfect, but it was a very satisfying ending to this series.

I thought it was just a fun action movie, got what I wanted

Sorry for others that was expecting more

@Supercat

I missed you too my friend

it was a solid movie but imo probably the weakest of the 3 hobbit films

did love the action and battle scenes tho

Here's my thought-
You can very definitively see where Tolkiens writing stops and Jacksons writing starts. Jackson's dialog feels forced and thin where as Tolkeins feels more fluid. The battle was interesting, I really enjoyed the dwarven phalanx. However, with so much of this movie cut from whole cloth, it is difficult to watch it in context. The entire Battle of Five Armies in the book was what? 20 pages?

That said, I am glad I watched it.

@McGee with steady hands??? with all that oil???? I don't think so sir!!!!!

@Supercat

I still read most of that articles and have as many laughs in reading the comments but just cannot comment myself

oh well

I come once a year with xmas... wait... that could be interpreted wrongly !!!!

3 stars and a small sigh of disappointment.

Went in expecting a battle b/w 5 armies...what we got was a battle b/w TWO armies (Elf and Orc) with a Dwarven garrison sprinkled on top and some complimentary humans and eagles on the side for garnish...

It didn't feel as chaotic as I'd expect from a 5 sided war. Like there was NOOOO friendly fire! Not even the cliched "two good guys back into each other and almost clobber one another before realizing they're on the same side" trope was used. You'd think in a war with 5 sides, your brain wouldn't be able to process much else besides which color armor to swing at.

I felt like there was a pretty decent build-up (considering you already know whats gonna happen) but then a complete cliff-like drop off in intensity when the war starts.

My last gripe? Tauriel...created for the movie...movie's over...kill the bird.

Don't get me wrong, I like E-Lilly, but her character should have been one of the first to go, not meander off to God-knows-where-with-Legolas-and-now-that-she-hasn't-died-where-was-she-during-that-whole-bit-of-nasty-One-Ring-business...

One Cool thing was the use of the prior Bolg concept art, but the coolness dipped cuz he was only there for like 20 seconds as just another nameless Orc...with a fancy headdress...smh...

PJax was kinda asleep at the wheel this go round.

I loved the third installment.I give it 9/10.

Quit bitching people. If you liked the book, go back to it and stay there,no one will miss you or care. Book was fantastic and the movies were great, i dont care for the differences. Gtfo haters.

I love these films but a lot of stuff that was added seemed to take away from the actual story.

I'm one of the few people that have almost no issues with An Unexpected Journey. The comic tone of the early chapters of the book were captured nicely. If anything I think the extra chase scene with Radagast before the dwarves get to Rivendell could've been omitted but otherwise it's very solid.

I thought Desolation of Smaug was very good, but I felt the elf action wasn't truly needed and I didn't like how Tauriel healing Fili was just a rehash of Arwen. That scene ended up just taking time away from the overall plot. I feel the same with the Dwarf fight against Smaug in Erebor. I believe they added action to create a finale since they made a decision to make a 3rd film.

Battle of the Five Armies is great for most of the running time and has the most emotion, BUT when the focus went to "Super Legolas Bros" it moved too far from the plot. I think since Azog was added late in production after Bolg was the original villain they needed to have an ending for Bolg and created an uneccessary scene.

The reason I feel it was uneccessary is because we did not get Thorin's funeral. No return to the Troll Cave on the way home. I'm sure it'll be in the extended version but I felt after so many hours they were necessary where the Legolas stuff was not. I think WB interfered with production on these where New Line did not 15 years ago.