Battle of Five Armies

Over the holiday, I was able to watch the last Hobbit in the trilogy, the Battle of Five Armies. Talking with people after the movie, I was able to see what others thought of it. Other people didn’t like it as much as I did. They thought it was just one big battle and it didn’t have much plot development on its own. Too bad this is my blog and not theirs :D, but on some scale I have to agree. 75% of the movie was war and battle, but this movie is part of a trilogy that was originally one book. In my opinion, the best way to critique it is by watching all three movies together. Since they all came from one book, watching them all together is almost like watching the Hobbit, the book, whole. For those who don’t agree with me, that’s their problem, but here are some of the highlights I enjoyed.

*****SPOILER ALERT***** 

·         I loved how the directors casted Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug. All I could think of was that Sherlock Holmes was a dragon. It was cool!

·         The sound track was amazing like I expected it to be! I listen to it all the time. Howard Shore and Neil Finn are geniuses!

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·         I loved the whole buildup of Sauron and the next part to the story. The movie does a great job of foreshadowing to the antagonist of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

·         The greatest thing I loved about the third movie is how the ending started right where the lord of the rings begun. It was the perfect way to end it in my opinion.

·         There are many other things that I loved that are not listed, but “ain’t nobody got time for that” :D