I watched a movie and it was called The Hobbit: The Battle
of the Five Armies, directed by Peter Jackson, released in 2014. This is the
third movie in a trilogy of movies based on the J.R.R. Tolkien classic, the
Hobbit, first published in 1937. It stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Lee
Pace, Evangeline Lily, Luke Evans and Manu Bennett, to name a few.
This part of the story concerns Smaug decimating Laketown and how the dwarves look for the Arken Stone for Thorin, how the Laketown folk will survive as well as how they will all survive against the dark army of Orks led by Azog. It is hard to explain everything in this review since it so dense since it is the third part of the trilogy. I will say that this one was slightly shorter than the two previous movies, or at least it seemed like it. I had kind of a biased opinion going into this movie since I had been raised on the 1977 Rankin/Bass cartoon and having read the book (now owning it) many times during my life, most recently before the movies came out, shortly after the Lord of the Rings Extended blu-rays came out, I believe. Let’s just say that it took me months to read The Hobbit because of the way it is written and some of the certain plot points are still fresh in my mind. This didn’t colour the way I saw the movie because I still think it was pretty epic in scope, like all the Middle Earth movies have been but there are some translation problems from book to movie that though I give wiggle room to, I still wish there was a better adaptation. I shouldn’t complain at all since we are lucky that these movies even get made considering how the books are written and how much detail goes into them. I found the battle sequences to be pretty amazing though I did confused as to who was fighting whom after a while. I saw this movie in 3-D on a regular screen and the 3-D was pretty easy on the eyes and not overwhelming like it is for some movies that have this feature. There was one sequence when Thorin is walking with the Elvish sword that was “given” to him by Legolas to fight Azog with, it points out just enough to look like it will graze you, which I found very cool. The music was top notch and the song during the credits, written and sung by Billy Boyd, who played Pippen in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, was especially poignant and moving.
I really enjoyed this series and at first I didn’t think it should’ve been stretched into three movies like the Lord of the Rings since The Hobbit was only one book and logically it made since for Lord of the Rings because there are three books of that series. After seeing this last Hobbit movie, there had to be a third film, if only to wrap up the loose ends left by the first two movies. I did like that the beginning of Five Armies picked up DIRECTLY where the second left off, with Smaug attacking Laketown. As though there was a break or intermission, rather than a year.
I recommend seeing all three movies of the Hobbit trilogy but it might do some good seeing the Lord of the Rings first however, which I know doesn’t make sense chronologically since that was like 500 years later in the history of Middle Earth. It’s up to you, naturally but do see them. And read the books, if you have the time. Tolkien was a vivid storyteller and I think the books will add much more to the story that was maybe left out of the movies.
This part of the story concerns Smaug decimating Laketown and how the dwarves look for the Arken Stone for Thorin, how the Laketown folk will survive as well as how they will all survive against the dark army of Orks led by Azog. It is hard to explain everything in this review since it so dense since it is the third part of the trilogy. I will say that this one was slightly shorter than the two previous movies, or at least it seemed like it. I had kind of a biased opinion going into this movie since I had been raised on the 1977 Rankin/Bass cartoon and having read the book (now owning it) many times during my life, most recently before the movies came out, shortly after the Lord of the Rings Extended blu-rays came out, I believe. Let’s just say that it took me months to read The Hobbit because of the way it is written and some of the certain plot points are still fresh in my mind. This didn’t colour the way I saw the movie because I still think it was pretty epic in scope, like all the Middle Earth movies have been but there are some translation problems from book to movie that though I give wiggle room to, I still wish there was a better adaptation. I shouldn’t complain at all since we are lucky that these movies even get made considering how the books are written and how much detail goes into them. I found the battle sequences to be pretty amazing though I did confused as to who was fighting whom after a while. I saw this movie in 3-D on a regular screen and the 3-D was pretty easy on the eyes and not overwhelming like it is for some movies that have this feature. There was one sequence when Thorin is walking with the Elvish sword that was “given” to him by Legolas to fight Azog with, it points out just enough to look like it will graze you, which I found very cool. The music was top notch and the song during the credits, written and sung by Billy Boyd, who played Pippen in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, was especially poignant and moving.
I really enjoyed this series and at first I didn’t think it should’ve been stretched into three movies like the Lord of the Rings since The Hobbit was only one book and logically it made since for Lord of the Rings because there are three books of that series. After seeing this last Hobbit movie, there had to be a third film, if only to wrap up the loose ends left by the first two movies. I did like that the beginning of Five Armies picked up DIRECTLY where the second left off, with Smaug attacking Laketown. As though there was a break or intermission, rather than a year.
I recommend seeing all three movies of the Hobbit trilogy but it might do some good seeing the Lord of the Rings first however, which I know doesn’t make sense chronologically since that was like 500 years later in the history of Middle Earth. It’s up to you, naturally but do see them. And read the books, if you have the time. Tolkien was a vivid storyteller and I think the books will add much more to the story that was maybe left out of the movies.
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