The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Directed by Peter Jackson
Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands. From TMDB
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Some viewers find this the best of the trilogy, praising its visual effects and characterful story. [1] Others criticize it for dragging, feeling like a rushed, CGI-heavy battle that lacks impact. [2][3][4] A few note the extended edition improves the experience, while the theatrical version has continuity errors. [5]
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After a singularly slow start to the series and despite the fact that I still can’t quite engage with Martin Freeman’s title character, I reckon that this is the best of the trilogy with some superb visual effects underpinned by a solid and characterful story right from the start. With the marauding “Smaug” breathing fire all over the town, it falls to “Bard” (Luke Evans) to try to save the day. Meantime, “Bilbo” …
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Exactly what it says on the tin - to a fault. Don't get me wrong, I like it. However, towards the end 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' definitely begins to drag quite heavily - the impact of what eventually happens did not, to be honest, hit as strongly as it could've/should've. The pure action is good, but there's not much to remember about everything else. None of the characters, with the exception of …
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83/100 Events have now culminated into a war between dwarves, humans, elves and two armies of orcs. This is such an exciting film that fails miserably in the theatrical version. I believe that much of its negative reaction is simply because of the continuity errors and rushed nature of the theatrical version ...like they're in a hurry to get it over with. Entire action sequences weren't included to satisfy a PG …
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Comparing the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit trilogy was already like comparing apples and mediocre oranges, but none so mediocre as Battle of the Five Armies. Don't get me wrong, I love a "battle" as much as the next guy, more maybe, I don't even mind a movie that's 95% battle, but in this? It does. Not. Work. Five Armies is a movie that never made it out of pre-viz, let alone to a polished, well-rounded, …
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As there was not much more to be told from the end of the previous movie, just assist to more than 2h of continuous battle. Quite pointless, but you may enjoy the action if that is what you were looking for ...
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Like its predecessors, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies became a financial success. It has grossed a total of $255.1 million in the US and Canada and $707.1 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $962.2 million. In its original theatrical release, it grossed over $956 million, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2014 (behind Transformers: Age of Extinction). Deadline Hollywood calculated the film's net profit as $103.4 million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues placed it fourteenth on their list of 2014's "Most Valuable Blockbusters". The film failed to earn $1…
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60 of 229 · most liked firstThis is a line from the Hobbit film, but still very much worth sharing as work inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien. #Booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →From: The Hobbit (1977), dir. Arthur Rankin & Jules Bass, Rankin/Bass This film was created mostly by Topcraft, the Japanese studio that later produced Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
neutral · AI labelView post →THE HOBBIT (1977): DOPESMOKER EDITION A fan edit by me that pairs the beloved Rankin/Bass animated Hobbit movie with the legendary sounds of Sleep's collosal single track album DOPESMOKER. Get it here: drive.google.com/file/d/16tci...
neutral · AI labelView post →Not sure we need a new Lord of the Rings movie so much as an edit of The Hobbit down to one 2-hour movie that then is only shown at a single drive-in theater at midnight.
negative · AI labelView post →I’ve avoided Tolkien for 41 years, but my kid just finished reading The Hobbit so now we’re watching the first movie, and friends… It appears I am a hobbit and had no idea.
positive · AI labelView post →The reason Gollum/Smeagol works is because he's not a main character. That we like the character doesn't mean we need a whole Gollum-centred movie. We enjoy the character in-situ, as part of the alchemy that includes the main characters. [And The Hobbit should have been one 90-minute movie.]
negative · AI labelView post →Denny's Smaug's Fire Burger (2013-2014): A part of the promotional menu for the film, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", this burger featured Denny's "special sauce", fried jalapeños, melted Pepper Jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, red onions and pickles, on a cheddar bun
neutral · AI labelView post →What's the most unforgivable sin done in media that you're still bitter about?. I still can't stop but think how stretched out the Hobbit films were, for an otherwise short book. That's a sin that stains forever with me. The Lord of the Rings films, do have their own flaws, but they're fairly contained and can be debated as to whether they were good or not. I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though. And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion. Simply…
negative · AI labelView post →the perfect hanukkah movie though is the story of a small group of jewish revolutionaries who set out to liberate their homeland from a foreign invader. yes, of course I mean the Hobbit Film Trilogy
neutral · AI labelView post →If someone just says "the Hobbit movie" I assume they mean the one by Rankin-Bass
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Hobbit I kept being like “let Peter Jackson do a Redwall movie”
neutral · AI labelView post →Like the Hobbit movies were terrible but in a way that just made you sad and bored. Not this one. This Gollum movie is about to make us all go Fish Mode, we all be Smeagolin!
negative · AI labelView post →I have watched a lot of The Hobbit development diaries after we recorded this and I have to say that there is a unique sad feeling that I have when I see how many tens of thousands of human hours are put into the practical parts of the film while knowing so much of it was slathered over with CGI.
negative · AI labelView post →Every time I see a video abou how miserable the dwarf prosthetics were for The Hobbit movies I feel sad that they had to live through that and can't even say it was for a good movie
negative · AI labelView post →I watched the Rankin Bass animated The Hobbit last night only to wake up to Polygon positing that it’s a Christmas movie, which I think is fine
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a Dario Argento cut of Dawn of the Dead that's a bit tighter and has more music by Goblin and it's GREAT. However Dawn of the Dead was already great, I want an Argento cut of the Hobbit movies. Cut them down to a single 90 minute film, also with soundtrack by Goblin. Perfection.
negative · AI labelView post →Crossing the Bridge to Rivendell, one of the illustrations for the 1997 edition of J R R Tolkein's The Hobbit by British book illustrator and film conceptual, designer, Alan Lee (born in 1947) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
neutral · AI labelView post →Some people have asked so here are my current ratings for recent Tolkien adaptations… The Lord of the Rings film trilogy 8.5/10 The Rings of Power 7.75/10 The War of the Rohirrim 7/10 Tolkien (Biopic) 6.5/10 The Hobbit film trilogy 5.75/10
negative · AI labelView post →Because I was kinda weirded out by the thrush in The Hobbit movie being an American Robin, so I assume everyone feels the same twinge.
neutral · AI labelView post →A very happy birthday to Alan Lee! Alan has illustrated many #Tolkien books including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and most recently The Fall of Númenor. He won an Oscar for his work on the film trilogy, and for many his art perfectly captures J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. #Booksky #lotr
neutral · AI labelView post →Incredible that The Hobbit is three movies and The Odyssey is one movie
negative · AI labelView post →my verdict on The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies is that this is the most "filmed entirely in greenscreen / with CGI subbing in for actors"-diseased film I've ever seen in my life
negative · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? I went there and back again with the Hobbit trilogy conclusion, hung out with Peter Falk and John Cassavetes til things got dark, conjured silent film magic with Melies, and witnessed Ralph Bakshi's gleefully weird LOTR adaptation. #Letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →So how does this work though? An American film company can’t make a movie in Scotland? So the Hobbit would have a 100% on what? Box office sales? Projected earnings? Royalties? Production only? Actors? What if an actor isn’t American-is their salary tariffed?
neutral · AI labelView post →Thing is, Tolkien only sold off movie rights for the Hobbit and LotR books. Rights to Silmarillion, unfinished tales, etc I believe are still jealously guarded by the estate. Aaaaaaaand from what we've seen the last few years maybe that's for the best?
neutral · AI labelView post →The 1977 animated film "The Hobbit" is better than all of the live-action "The Hobbit" films. - Better soundtrack - More likable characters - No CGI
positive · AI labelView post →It's the anniversary of my sobriety today. I don't keep track of the years so, whenever this comes around, I have to check the release date of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" to see how long it's been (13 years) because I had my last drink right before seeing that film in a theater in Seattle.
neutral · AI labelView post →LOTR Extended Editions are some of the greatest achievements in film and The Hobbit Extended Editions sure are movies aren't they
negative · AI labelView post →To be fair, Rings of Power is not WB. But given how *the Hobbit* turned out and the existence of that weird Rohan movie, I have no faith that WB would do a good job.
negative · AI labelView post →The Hobbit, a movie so long it became 3 three hour movies, from a 300 page book for kids.
negative · AI labelView post →It's Bilbo's birthday (also Frodo's). This guy right here played both of them - Frodo in the BBC's magisterial audio drama of LOTR, and then Bilbo in Peter Jackson's beautifully cast three-movie epic of LOTR (we do not speak of his version of The Hobbit, for we are tired). Anyway. Hobbits. Yay!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
neutral · AI labelView post →Now Playing: The Hobbit (Rankin/Bass Soundtrack) (Disneyland, 1977) The soundtrack of America's *only* Hobbit movie! From the $2 used bin, a pretty well-worn, crackly, skipping copy. I'll need a replacement! #nowspinning #nowplaying
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen the 1967 animated film of #Tolkien's The Hobbit? Directed by Gene Deitch, the 12-minute film was made purely to retain the adaptation rights. It was shown only to a limited audience until the producer's son uploaded it to YouTube. Do you like it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnV...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: The Hobbit (1977)
neutral · AI labelView post →Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Ten Armies ...wait, the original was already ruined 😔
negative · AI labelView post →Post something all your nerdy friends have seen or read, but not you. I’ll start with The Hobbit animated film. Then I’ll add any of the Tolkien films by Peter Jackson. Not opposed - just haven’t. 🤷🏻♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →It genuinely slaps. I've heard the complaints about the CGI-heavy third act, but A) the movie is still stuffed with actor v actor martial arts dust ups, and 2) they did the ending of THE HOBBIT better than the HOBBIT movies, so.
positive · AI labelView post →The Hobbit |1977 www.imdb.com/title/tt0077687 #NowWatching #filmsky ·a homebody hobbit in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon·
neutral · AI labelView post →Empirically, The Hobbit Unexpected Journey is a bad movie. But it has enough moments to keep me watching. Most of those moments include this hat, which I want very, very much.
negative · AI labelView post →put The Hobbit on in the background it’s never not funny how it looks like they put the bold glam tiktok filter over this entire movie
negative · AI labelView post →You know what? I'm going to watch the Hobbit 2, a great film about how a band of left-nationalist volunteers reclaimed their homeland from a foreign invader.
positive · AI labelView post →The Hobbit being broken up into 3 movies made (makes) me so mad. The book was shorter than any of each of LOTR trilogy books and they each got one movie. And don't get me started on the random Legolas love story they added to the movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Guillermo Del Torro getting his two-part Hobbit film taken away because the studio decided they wanted Lord of the Rings again and not an actual good telling of The Hobbit
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor, rest are Muppets: The Hobbit, keep Martin Freeman.
neutral · AI labelView post →>The original LOTR films was ALL practical effects. This is not accurate. There was a LOT of CGI in those movies. But CGI is not inherently bad. We have this strange notion that CGI is bad and practical effects are good, but in reality a proper blend between CGI and practical effects is important, and both need to be done well. Poor practical effects will look bad, poor CGI will look bad. The Hobbit movies looked bad because they were rushed. It was like 6 years lead-time for LOTR vs 6 months…
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Jackson: I'm going to totally fuck up The Hobbit by turning it into a bloated three movie monstrosity Andy Serkis: Hold my beer
negative · AI labelView post →Today I'm watching an edit of all The Hobbit movies put together into one movie. My favorite book of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" Absolute trash-tier in movie-making. God awful, completely irredeemable.
negative · AI labelView post →Forgot what movie I was watching for a second and thought it was The Hobbit.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve made it into The Two Towers and I have a newfound sense of appreciation for both Tolkien’s writing and worldbuilding and Peter Jackson’s overall faithfulness in adapting it to film Which really begs the question of wtf happened with The Hobbit movies?
negative · AI labelView post →First movie: Fellowship of the Baby Gollum. Second movie: The Two Smeagols. Third Movie: Return of the Gollum. Fourth Movie: The Hobbit Gollum.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eldest has somehow got younger daughter to agree to watch all the Hobbit and LoTR movies, in that order. They're starting Hobbit 3 now. Youngest is bemoaning that they've "made a whole film from four pages of the book". So jaded.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had such high hopes for "The Hobbit" but that was back when it was going to be one movie directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
negative · AI labelView post →make a movie trans The Hobbit: An Unexpected Gender
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor, rest are Muppets: The Hobbit Martin Freeman
neutral · AI labelView post →No good movie is ever too long. No bad movie is ever short enough. The Hobbit trilogy should've been one movie. Two movies max.
negative · AI labelView post →Kicking off the holidays a day early with a 40+ year tradition: The Hobbit (1977). 🐉🎶 I sing it start to finish and hum it for days after. Easily the movie I’ve seen the most and probably why I love anime, musicals, and Tolkien. Even the doggie loves it! What’s your annual tradition watch?
positive · AI labelView post →*preparing to have all the Tolkien fans calling for my head The Hobbit movies are a regular heist film.
neutral · AI labelView post →For as much as Willow is a “we have The Hobbit at home” kind of movie it’s pretty good
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