The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

[jye4ever]

Leave it up to crows and Gone with the Wind would be a 15 minute motion comic.

 

[Shawpaw]

Saw this tonight. Good movie! some holes in the story but I really don't care. Wondered why they CGI'd Thorin's cousin though...? That looked so fake

 

[jye4ever]

Cheaper to pay a motion capture homeless dude than a Hollywood actor.

 

[Khev]

Wondered why they CGI'd Thorin's cousin though...?

Making a convincing dwarf character is currently beyond what can be achieved through an actor wearing make-up. Maybe someday.

 

[jye4ever]

 

[Khev]

.... Ignore most of what I had to say about the three Hobbit films and fan fiction and all of that... I know why these films fell flat for me. It came to me like a flood last night when I was listening to the Fellowship Score.

The hobbit films felt empty to me because (and this might be more controversial) I thought the music in the new films was boring...

Well at least you know what rubbed you the wrong way.

 

[The Ween]

Leave it up to crows and Gone with the Wind would be a 15 minute motion comic.

 

[crows]

Leave it up to crows and Gone with the Wind would be a 15 minute motion comic.

Spoiler

fan edit bro......ffann eefdiitttttt

 

[Irvy]

My favourite part from this trilogy is the "Why Bilbo Baggins" speech from Gandalf.

Can't imagine anyone except McKellan playing him.His brilliant acting still shines through all the fakey fakeness of the sets.

 

[RIDDICK]

Making a convincing dwarf character is currently beyond what can be achieved through an actor wearing make-up. Maybe someday.

 

[JAWS]

Well at least you know what rubbed you the wrong way.

Well It would have helped me forgive some other things if it had a great score.. It really lacked IMO and is really unmemorable.

 

[jye4ever]

I agree with Jaws, it's lacking a great score therefore uses LOTR score as a crutch.

 

[Irvy]

The misty mountains theme is great but they done goofed with the 2nd and 3rd movies not using it, nothing memorable in those two soundtracks.

 

[jye4ever]

The 3rd movie needed an 80s pop theme.

 

[Irvy]

The 3rd movie needed an 80s pop theme.

This playing as the eagles appeared

 

[jye4ever]

Yup, good choice.

 

[TURINS~BANE]

More Beorn in the EE. To little..to late.

 

[jye4ever]

They released unfinished movies with these where as LOTR the TE were near perfect, the EE were great supplemental gifts.

The EE of the Hobbit are absolutely necessary.

Who does PJ think he is, EA games.

 

[Gruson]

Yeah,

The first Hobbit movie is my favorite and the main theme, Misty Mountains, really adds to the movie IMO. I just love that theme and was shocked that the second and third movies did not use it.

I did some research and it looks like Howard Shore did not write that theme, Plan 9 actually did. It looks like there may have been some copyright issues with it being used as the main theme and that could have been a reason it was not used in parts 2 and 3. They even went as far as removing it from some video games that at first had the theme. Very strange but something happened because it was the theme of The Hobbit and then vanished in part 2...shame too. That should have been played in part 3 when the dwarves rushed out to battle the orcs.

Nothing was memorable as far as themes in part 2 or 3 but I still enjoyed hearing a lot of the re-used LOTR themes. At least Hobbit 1 has an incredible score IMO.

 

[TURINS~BANE]

The Fellowship score superb, does not get better.