What aunt_zelda Thinks: The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies
Just a few thoughts since I'm exhausted from 1) so much traveling lately 2) Christmas is near and 3) this movie.
- I thought it did a good job of wrapping up things and tying things into the original trilogy.
- I think it wasn't as good as the previous two.
- The fighting was EXCELLENT.
- I get sad when mounts die in battles so I was sad.
- I cried a lot. So much. Especially at the deaths.
- I think they did a good job portraying Thorin's paranoia and obsessions.
- Lee Pace and Richard Armitage and whoever that guy is who played Bard were all EXCELLENT OMG. Especially Bard. Bard Guy makes me hopeful of what's gonna happen with Jon Snow in upcoming GoT seasons.
- Tauriel was REALLY POORLY USED BY THE MOVIE. Not as bad as she could have been but still, I am disappointed. Especially since she should have killed Bolg. That was her fucking kill, ok? But no, she lies there on the ground and faints and Legolas gets to have a ridiculous over the top fight scene. But not the girl.
- Speaking of girls, Laketown's women fought. YAY. Woulda been nice to see MORE of them fighting (Bard's eldest daughter picking up a spear or something and helping her brother out would have been appreciated) but still, at least we had a moment where they fought. Unlike the ridiculous moment in The Twin Towers when every man of Rohan from the elderly grandpas to the twelve year old boys, are given helmets and spears, while strong women in the prime of life are left to cower in fear and uselessness.
- In other positive Laketown news, Laketown has a diverse population! YAY! Again, wish we'd seen more of that, but it has been noted and is appreciated and we should support more of that in the future.
- Galadriel. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, she delivered a smackdown on the Dark Lord himself and it was awesome. On the other hand, she spent most of the fight cradling Gandalf, and afterwards fainted. She was supposed to bring that place down with her mind powers, right? Why did we need lots of scenes of Sniveling Steward but no three minute scene of Galadriel taking down the castle with her mind powers?
- It was great to see Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee again in their old outfits. Gratuitous cameos? Yes. A lot of damn fun? Hell yeah!
- I was sobbing through the credits and all these kids walked past me and looked confused and I felt OLD.
Like, I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings when I was in ... 5th grade? 6th grade at most. I wanted to watch the trilogy but I wanted to have read the books first, because that's the kind of kid I was and that's the kind of person I remain. The trilogy was a tough slog for a 12 year old, even one like me who read way above the usual reading level. But it was satisfying to get to watch the movies and enjoy them.
And now the Hobbit trilogy. It has come and now it has gone. It is concluded. I don't think they're going to do anything else with this in the near future. In ten years, they might do remakes, or spinoffs, a tv show, some kind of entertainment we don't have yet, who knows. But for the near future, it has ended.
I just ... I dunno. I feel kinda like I did when Harry Potter ended. Not to that degree of course, Harry Potter has a place in my heart and soul that nothing else has ever come close to, and I doubt anything else ever will. Harry Potter was my childhood. Tolkien's stuff was my preteen/early teen years. Still important and upsetting to watch conclude, but not to the degree that Harry Potter was/is.
I feel ... drained. Which could be because of the movie, or my recent traveling, or the nearness of Christmas, or fatigue of a long, long year.
I'm gonna dive into the fix-it fics and kink meme and my AO3 bookmarks.
- I thought it did a good job of wrapping up things and tying things into the original trilogy.
- I think it wasn't as good as the previous two.
- The fighting was EXCELLENT.
- I get sad when mounts die in battles so I was sad.
- I cried a lot. So much. Especially at the deaths.
- I think they did a good job portraying Thorin's paranoia and obsessions.
- Lee Pace and Richard Armitage and whoever that guy is who played Bard were all EXCELLENT OMG. Especially Bard. Bard Guy makes me hopeful of what's gonna happen with Jon Snow in upcoming GoT seasons.
- Tauriel was REALLY POORLY USED BY THE MOVIE. Not as bad as she could have been but still, I am disappointed. Especially since she should have killed Bolg. That was her fucking kill, ok? But no, she lies there on the ground and faints and Legolas gets to have a ridiculous over the top fight scene. But not the girl.
- Speaking of girls, Laketown's women fought. YAY. Woulda been nice to see MORE of them fighting (Bard's eldest daughter picking up a spear or something and helping her brother out would have been appreciated) but still, at least we had a moment where they fought. Unlike the ridiculous moment in The Twin Towers when every man of Rohan from the elderly grandpas to the twelve year old boys, are given helmets and spears, while strong women in the prime of life are left to cower in fear and uselessness.
- In other positive Laketown news, Laketown has a diverse population! YAY! Again, wish we'd seen more of that, but it has been noted and is appreciated and we should support more of that in the future.
- Galadriel. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, she delivered a smackdown on the Dark Lord himself and it was awesome. On the other hand, she spent most of the fight cradling Gandalf, and afterwards fainted. She was supposed to bring that place down with her mind powers, right? Why did we need lots of scenes of Sniveling Steward but no three minute scene of Galadriel taking down the castle with her mind powers?
- It was great to see Hugo Weaving and Christopher Lee again in their old outfits. Gratuitous cameos? Yes. A lot of damn fun? Hell yeah!
- I was sobbing through the credits and all these kids walked past me and looked confused and I felt OLD.
Like, I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings when I was in ... 5th grade? 6th grade at most. I wanted to watch the trilogy but I wanted to have read the books first, because that's the kind of kid I was and that's the kind of person I remain. The trilogy was a tough slog for a 12 year old, even one like me who read way above the usual reading level. But it was satisfying to get to watch the movies and enjoy them.
And now the Hobbit trilogy. It has come and now it has gone. It is concluded. I don't think they're going to do anything else with this in the near future. In ten years, they might do remakes, or spinoffs, a tv show, some kind of entertainment we don't have yet, who knows. But for the near future, it has ended.
I just ... I dunno. I feel kinda like I did when Harry Potter ended. Not to that degree of course, Harry Potter has a place in my heart and soul that nothing else has ever come close to, and I doubt anything else ever will. Harry Potter was my childhood. Tolkien's stuff was my preteen/early teen years. Still important and upsetting to watch conclude, but not to the degree that Harry Potter was/is.
I feel ... drained. Which could be because of the movie, or my recent traveling, or the nearness of Christmas, or fatigue of a long, long year.
I'm gonna dive into the fix-it fics and kink meme and my AO3 bookmarks.