Just to Finish Things off: Battle of the Five Armies

[lil_shepherd]

*sigh

Comments

[frandowdsofa]

John fell asleep.

[lil_shepherd]

I am not surprised.

[tx_cronopio]

Agreed 100%! The whole endeavor was such a horrific disappointment.

[lil_shepherd]

And I was so looking forward to it...

[dickgloucester]

Everybody likes the battle-goats.

And we - my family and I - have derived a lot of humour with Thranduil's apparent moose obsession.

[lil_shepherd]

I keep imagining the size of the stable doors that beast of Thranduil's needs! Not to mention how it manages to make its way through any close-grown forest. (And is it supposed to be an Irish Elk (which is now more correctly known as a Giant Deer) or a mutated version of the European Elk (pretty much the same as the American Moose, though I think they are now regarded as sub-species but I am determined to stick to Elk) or what? I'm not sure it's not there just for the moment when it has a dozen or so Orcs festooned from its antlers.

[dickgloucester]

I'd forgotten that bit. Now I want a battle-moose, too.

And it's definitely a moose - "elk" is entirely too sensible a word.

[madfilkentist]

I haven't seen the movie (gave up with part 2), but that just makes me think of a Peter Jackson-sized Thidwick.

[tx_cronopio]

Agreed 100%! The whole endeavor was such a horrific disappointment.

[fatpie42]

By my reckoning, this was the only one of the Hobbit movies that was less fun than the Lord Of The Rings movies, but in both trilogies I felt that the first movie showed a lot of promise, the middle movie was boring and the last movie was one interminable battle scene. Oh, and in both trilogies the second movie ends in the wrong place.

[lil_shepherd]

I adore the LotR movies, though I actually think The Two Towers is strongest, and I am not keen on the theatrical edit of Return of the King. My other main quarrel with Return of the King is the Army of the Dead, in which Jackson gives in to his zombie fixation...

[fatpie42]

The Two Towers was my favourite of the books and I didn't like how the movie turned the defeat of Wormtongue by gaining the support of the king of Rohan into an exorcism. Saruman and Wormtongue's powers both rely on influence through words and it's embarrassing that "The Avengers" did a better job of portraying that sort of thing with Loki than the Lord of the Rings movies ever manage.

But overall I don't hate the Lord of the Rings movies. I'm just a bit 'meh' about all of them. And it's frustrating, because with both trilogies I was really surprised by the first one. (Particularly in the case of Lord of the Rings. They took the extremely slow and boring first book and made it seem exciting.)