The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Before I do the synopsis just a quick word about this one. This is the first one I have done for these movies because the other parts came out before this blog was a thing. That being said, I do recommend them because they are good (for the most part anyways).
This is the final installment of J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit book (which the producers made into three movies for some reason (money, money, money)). The epic conclusion starts out with the dwarf company (plus one hobbit) holed up in the mines of Erebor and Smaug out destroying Lake Town. In an accurate (to the book) but kind of boring manner the dragon is killed by Bard (Luke Evans), a dad of three who becomes a key player as the movie progresses. Once Smaug is vanquished, Bard and a company of Wood Elves that showed up after the dragon was defeated (conveniently...) head over to the mine to get their share of the riches that belong to them. But instead of handing over the diamonds that belong to the Elves and the gold that would have helped rebuild Laketown, Thorin (Richard Armitage) decides that he will keep all of the gold for himself and wage war against them instead. Now his company must suit up for battle but little do they know that another adversary is on the way, the Orc armies are fast approaching. Bilbo (Martin Freeman) tries his best to help mend the situation but that lands him in hot water with Thorin who nearly throws him off the battlement. As the battle begins the company sits and waits as the elves and men fight the Orc menace, and it seems as though nothing will get them to come out. That is until Thorin's cousins show up and Thorin has a deep thought moment with himself; then with great gusto the company bursts forth and starts kicking everyone's butt. The battle won Bilbo and Gandalf set off back to the Shire where Bilbo has to overcome a new obstacle: getting back all of the things his nasty cousins (the Sackville Baggins) sold off because they thought he was dead.
Now I know that this series of movies was really inaccurate in some places (ok a lot of places) and could do with a great deal of work, what with characters that were not in the book (that is right I see you Legolas and Tauriel), love triangles that were both made up and weird (Legolas, Tauriel, and Kili), scenes from the book and characters whose screen times were shortened (poor Beorn and Bilbo (who had an awesome spider killing sequence)), and sidequests that came out of nowhere (sorry Gandalf). But I digress. Actually this part of the trilogy was actually surprisingly accurate despite the things listed above that were throughout the trilogy. All in all it was a great balance of things that I liked and the things that I did not find as appealing; like how one of the characters, Thorin's cousin who helps fight, was completely done in CGI and was not actually there (though I later found out that the actor had troubles with Parkinson's disease and could not be in the filming). My favorite part of the movie was probably when Bilbo stole the Arkenstone from the dragon horde and used it to try to mend the conflict between the dwarves, elves, and men. Because it showed that he had started to genuinely care about the company, even though he was against the journey in the first place, and that he did not want any harm to come to his friends because of Thorin's greed. If you are a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit nerd I would obviously recommend this movie. But even if you are just a guy/girl who loves amazing fantasy fighting, monsters, friendship, and lots of treasure you would still love to see this movie. Watch out though, it is long movie so make sure you go potty before hand and bring lots of snacks.
My rating for this movie is three out of five stars.
This is the final installment of J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit book (which the producers made into three movies for some reason (money, money, money)). The epic conclusion starts out with the dwarf company (plus one hobbit) holed up in the mines of Erebor and Smaug out destroying Lake Town. In an accurate (to the book) but kind of boring manner the dragon is killed by Bard (Luke Evans), a dad of three who becomes a key player as the movie progresses. Once Smaug is vanquished, Bard and a company of Wood Elves that showed up after the dragon was defeated (conveniently...) head over to the mine to get their share of the riches that belong to them. But instead of handing over the diamonds that belong to the Elves and the gold that would have helped rebuild Laketown, Thorin (Richard Armitage) decides that he will keep all of the gold for himself and wage war against them instead. Now his company must suit up for battle but little do they know that another adversary is on the way, the Orc armies are fast approaching. Bilbo (Martin Freeman) tries his best to help mend the situation but that lands him in hot water with Thorin who nearly throws him off the battlement. As the battle begins the company sits and waits as the elves and men fight the Orc menace, and it seems as though nothing will get them to come out. That is until Thorin's cousins show up and Thorin has a deep thought moment with himself; then with great gusto the company bursts forth and starts kicking everyone's butt. The battle won Bilbo and Gandalf set off back to the Shire where Bilbo has to overcome a new obstacle: getting back all of the things his nasty cousins (the Sackville Baggins) sold off because they thought he was dead.
Now I know that this series of movies was really inaccurate in some places (ok a lot of places) and could do with a great deal of work, what with characters that were not in the book (that is right I see you Legolas and Tauriel), love triangles that were both made up and weird (Legolas, Tauriel, and Kili), scenes from the book and characters whose screen times were shortened (poor Beorn and Bilbo (who had an awesome spider killing sequence)), and sidequests that came out of nowhere (sorry Gandalf). But I digress. Actually this part of the trilogy was actually surprisingly accurate despite the things listed above that were throughout the trilogy. All in all it was a great balance of things that I liked and the things that I did not find as appealing; like how one of the characters, Thorin's cousin who helps fight, was completely done in CGI and was not actually there (though I later found out that the actor had troubles with Parkinson's disease and could not be in the filming). My favorite part of the movie was probably when Bilbo stole the Arkenstone from the dragon horde and used it to try to mend the conflict between the dwarves, elves, and men. Because it showed that he had started to genuinely care about the company, even though he was against the journey in the first place, and that he did not want any harm to come to his friends because of Thorin's greed. If you are a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit nerd I would obviously recommend this movie. But even if you are just a guy/girl who loves amazing fantasy fighting, monsters, friendship, and lots of treasure you would still love to see this movie. Watch out though, it is long movie so make sure you go potty before hand and bring lots of snacks.
My rating for this movie is three out of five stars.
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