I have finally watched The Battle of the Five Armies yesterday, so now it's time to write my own personal review of it and share it here in Mythic Scribes.
This will be full of spoilers, so if you have not watched the movie yet, it's better if you stop reading now.
To start with, let me say that this has been my least favorite of the three The Hobbit films. TB of the FA feels even slower and heavier than the previous movies, and even though the battle sequences are great, they get too long and it starts to become boring.
I missed the beautiful landscapes and colors seen in An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug. Five Armies is visually so dull, colorless and boring that you could watch it in black and white and it would be almost the same... Almost the entire movie takes place in the same location, in contrast to the adventures of the other films.
As a person that has never read the original story, I was very disappointed to see Smaug getting killed almost as soon as the movie begins. I was expecting to see much more of Smaug in the final installment, but I must accept that the entire sequence of the great dragon's attack on Lake Town is truly superb.
I always knew that Thorin would die in the end, but Kili's death was a surprise and I hated it!
It was fun to try and identify all of the five armies involved in the fray. The first army to show up was the Elves, and then the Dwarfs, and then I thought that the normal people would be an army too, but apparently they were not considered as one because the third and fourth armies were the monsters.
I came to the conclusion that the fifth army was composed by the giant eagles commanded by Radagast, which looked absolutely great when it happened in the final parts of the movie...
My opinion is that this movie (like the others) could have been considerably shorter than it is. I think that Peter Jackson wanted to make the entire trilogy so great and epic that in the end it became too epic and overdone... A simpler style and faster narrative would have made everything much better.
The good stuff:
The Battle of the Five Armies is an excellent lesson about the dangers of riches, power and greed. It speaks about the value and importance of friends, family and love, and how you would be totally miserable without them even if you had all the treasures of the world.
The movie also connects very well the trilogy of The Hobbit with the later events of The Lord of the Rings, that was nicely done.
My favorite parts of the movie:
1- Smaug's attack on Lake Town.
2- The battle of Galadriel, Elrond and Saruman against Sauron.
3- The start of the fighting at the mountain.
4- When Thorin finally kills that bloody white monster.
5- Radagast and the eagles attacking.
6- Tauriel mourning Kili.
7- The ending.
What do you think of The Battle of the Five Armies?
This will be full of spoilers, so if you have not watched the movie yet, it's better if you stop reading now.
To start with, let me say that this has been my least favorite of the three The Hobbit films. TB of the FA feels even slower and heavier than the previous movies, and even though the battle sequences are great, they get too long and it starts to become boring.
I missed the beautiful landscapes and colors seen in An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug. Five Armies is visually so dull, colorless and boring that you could watch it in black and white and it would be almost the same... Almost the entire movie takes place in the same location, in contrast to the adventures of the other films.
As a person that has never read the original story, I was very disappointed to see Smaug getting killed almost as soon as the movie begins. I was expecting to see much more of Smaug in the final installment, but I must accept that the entire sequence of the great dragon's attack on Lake Town is truly superb.
I always knew that Thorin would die in the end, but Kili's death was a surprise and I hated it!
It was fun to try and identify all of the five armies involved in the fray. The first army to show up was the Elves, and then the Dwarfs, and then I thought that the normal people would be an army too, but apparently they were not considered as one because the third and fourth armies were the monsters.
I came to the conclusion that the fifth army was composed by the giant eagles commanded by Radagast, which looked absolutely great when it happened in the final parts of the movie...
My opinion is that this movie (like the others) could have been considerably shorter than it is. I think that Peter Jackson wanted to make the entire trilogy so great and epic that in the end it became too epic and overdone... A simpler style and faster narrative would have made everything much better.
The good stuff:
The Battle of the Five Armies is an excellent lesson about the dangers of riches, power and greed. It speaks about the value and importance of friends, family and love, and how you would be totally miserable without them even if you had all the treasures of the world.
The movie also connects very well the trilogy of The Hobbit with the later events of The Lord of the Rings, that was nicely done.
My favorite parts of the movie:
1- Smaug's attack on Lake Town.
2- The battle of Galadriel, Elrond and Saruman against Sauron.
3- The start of the fighting at the mountain.
4- When Thorin finally kills that bloody white monster.
5- Radagast and the eagles attacking.
6- Tauriel mourning Kili.
7- The ending.
What do you think of The Battle of the Five Armies?
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