The new Hobbit film: a review

[phantmgreeneyes]

A lot of people have been giving the latest Hobbit film, Battle of Five Armies, a bad review.
I'll admit. It was not as good as the first two. Not by a long shot. But overall, I liked it.
Here are my thoughts.

[spoilers abound, dear readers]-5 armies? Men, orcs, dwarves, elves. Who was the fifth one? Smaug? Did I miss something? (the answer is probably really obvious. like "

Comments

[bending_sickle]

I think, from the book, that the fifth army was the eagles, but they were just a footnote in the movie (the phrase "arrives fifteen minutes late with Starbucks" springs to mind). The bats were probably lumped in with the orc army (not that they showed up a lot either).