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Worzel

I saw all 3 films in the cinema and was increasingly disappointed as they dragged on. I saw this last as a sort of obligation to myself to finish.
Now many years later I've just seen the fan edit : all 3 movies recut to a 4h21m runtime with an intermission in the middle, so 2 movies and ... it made sense. It was actually a pleasant experience and I highly recommend you try it.

4 years 3 months ago

Earring72

Well that was a fitting underwelming end to an underwelming prequel trilogy series. It's very difficult too care about anyone....but acting is good and movie looks and sounds amazing on blu ray.

but...what happended to the gold? The town people....and how did Thorin exactly just became better????

6 years 3 months ago

_scylla

i didn't like the fact that spoiler

and some fight scenes at the last battle were too much, even for Legolas.

7 years 1 month ago

Agnezious

CGI everywhere, just look like Star Wars prequel.

7 years 9 months ago

BigAwesomeBLT

Beer helped me get through this.

Favourite part - Thorin: "My Gold, you can't have it, and I'm not helping fight the Orks... Oh, okay then, now that loads of people have died I guess I'll help..."

8 years 9 months ago

Siskoid

I know the Hobbit series has its detractors, whether it's because they can't stand it being a sequel to the other trilogy and not a very close adaptation of the actual book, at once too serious for kids and too silly in its action beats, but I don't care. I love it and love returning to this world, its look and its sound. Battle of the Five Armies is a huge action blow-out to end things, but it still manages some effective character moments, like Thorin's corruption - foreshadowing one of the themes of The Lord of the Rings - and what Bilbo comes away with at the end of his 13-month journey. Of the characters developed for the films, Bard is the best, a good Aragorn stand-in, while Tauriel strikes me as a little melodramatic. She's better as context for the relationship between Legolas and his father. Alfryd the toady is used for comic relief, but without Lakeville's lord for him to bounce off, he grows tiresome. That's one character that could use a trim in an extended cut (ironically). Big, fun, and exciting. It'll be interesting to watch all 6 films in chronological order this time next year (when I find 20some hours to spare).

Addendum 2017: When I first saw The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in theaters and reviewed it here, I was almost entirely positive, taken in by the bold action and only too happy to return one more time to Middle-Earth. A couple of years later, revisiting it with the Extended Edition, I'm forced to make a 180 on that opinion. Without the benefit of having JUST watched the previous installment, Smaug's dispatch within 10 minutes feels like a huge anti-climax, after which everything that's interesting or potentially touching is lost in scene after CG scene of fighting gags. While the extended cut has some of my favorite such bits (its triumph across the trilogy is developing all the dwarves so well), adding more fighting really doesn't fix the problem. Unlike many, I don't mind the expansion of a few pages into a whole film, but it gets to be too much of the same thing, and comes out as tedious. The DVD, with a writer/director commentary track and some 10 hours or making of (like the rest of set, achieves a touching finality even if the film doesn't, as the cast and crew come to terms with the end of 15-year journey.

8 years 10 months ago

jmars

Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies are to the Lord of the Rings what the prequel trilogy is to Star Wars.

8 years 11 months ago

paucsie

One of the most disappointing movies of 2014.

8 years 11 months ago

neocowboy

The only enjoyable part of this film was when Gandalf sat beside Bilbo at the end and enjoyed some pipeweed without a word spoken between the two. This is the most genuine moment in a film with a 144 min runtime.

9 years ago

spooler

Come on! Could not they make the dragon talk a little less? It looks like a parody of villain, giving a thousand explanations to his victim.

9 years 1 month ago

oleole90

Pillow fighting snooze fest.

9 years 1 month ago

chunkylefunga

If you took all the best bits of all three movies it wouldn't match even one of the LOTR movies.

9 years 1 month ago

dm7

''oy, you! pointy hat''

9 years 1 month ago

OrjanB

This was pretty awful. I had low expectations yet I am dissappointed. It was still entertaining to watch, but the Hobbit-movies soiled the reputation of the LOTR-trilogy, and it's disgusting that they extended ONE book into three mediocre movies dripping with CGI and yet totally lacking emotion. And what's with the forced love-triangle?! Never again watching this stinking pile of turd.

9 years 1 month ago

danisanna

I think it's fantastic ... mostly due to the fact that it's a Tolkien story in a movie! I just love these books and the movies are a great addition (even if the books will forever be better). However, it's a bit over the top and I kind of wish (time and time again) that they'd stick to one story instead of adding stories to the movies and drawing it out into 3 movies. The Hobbit is fantastic on its own and should've been filmed like that. In LOTR, Bilbo says “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” ... sort of like this story, stretched out in 3 long movies. There's too many elements that sometimes make it confusing. But still, I loved watching it, even if it does have faults. The LOTR movies are better though. But that's just my humble opinion!

9 years 2 months ago