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#201

Desolation of Smaug

Posted: 11/6/14 at 3:52pm

Looks like great fun. I'll be there, no question. Unmissable.

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#202

Desolation of Smaug

Posted: 11/6/14 at 5:24pm

**goosebumps**

Peter Jackson points out something interesting in the extras for the extended Smaug blu-ray... The Battle of the Five Armies is the only one of the six Middle-Earth films that isn't about traveling somewhere. Everyone is already set and ready to go. We don't leave Erebor till Bilbo goes home to write his book.

Can't wait.

#203

Desolation of Smaug

Posted: 12/21/14 at 12:57am

I saw the movie tonight and it was an epic finale to this series. Most of the actors really gave powerful performances in this movie. Spoilers below:

* Galadriel showed her dark side again and it was pretty scary.

* Thorin, Killi, and Filli's deaths were so sad.

* The final scene was the perfect way to end it all. It was the scene during 'The Fellowship of the Ring' where Bilbo saw Gandalf for the first time in years.

Thank you Peter Jackson and everyone involved with Middle Earth for bringing these stories to life.

#204

Desolation of Smaug

Posted: 12/21/14 at 1:44am

I really liked THE HOBBIT trilogy despite it's flaws, it was a great way for kids in this generation to know about the Peter Jackson Middle-Earth films. THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES' ending was freaking perfect.

#205

Desolation of Smaug

Posted: 12/22/14 at 9:54am

SPOILER?

Why didn't they kill off Smaug at the end of the last one, instead of the start of this one? That would've made better storytelling, no?

I've now seen all three movies, and now that that's done, I don't think I'll feel the need to revisit them, like, ever.

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#206

Desolation of Smaug

Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:05pm

There were a handful of poor decisions that resulted from deciding 80% through production to turn two films into three. Among them was the odd way to use Smaug heading to Laketown as a cliffhanger for film #2. The payoff is so anticlimactic and feels so weird as the start of film #3. I have such an affection for these movies, but there is no denying it should have stayed as two instead of three, even with the Lord of the Rings appendices information thrown in.

Also was it me, or did The Battale of Five Armies feel more like a showcase for CGI Legolas. I forgot I was watching the Hobbit for a while and the "running up the falling stones" bit he did.... ooof.

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