The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

[Gruson]

someone posted this comparison on fb and it does kind of piss me off. how do you even defend this? how? HOW?

if LOTR was made today NONE of these would exist in this way...none of them... damn you Peter (Lucas) Jackson... damn you
(cant wait until he replaces all the creatures from LOTR with cgi... you know thats coming)

Azog and his Bolg were great characters, as good as Lurtz, Ugluk, Grishnak, and even Gothmog.

 

[The Josh]

Crap, I was about to go to sleep.

It's long enough that you may fall asleep reading it.

 

[DiFabio]

Cgi or not, Azog and his ***** were scary and intimidating, so despite the yogurt being in full effect, they still worked in the context of the movie.

Hell, a non cgi baddie would've actually looked out of place in these movies, think about it.

How much did Mrs. Jye pay you to think this way . . .

Couple of dwarf/elf romances and people get delusions of grandeur!

 

[jye4ever]

Azog and his Bolg were great characters, as good as Lurtz, Ugluk, Grishnak, and even Gothmog.

I love it that Azog looks like a lolcat there.

It's long enough that you may fall asleep reading it.

 

[jye4ever]

How much did Mrs. Jye pay you to think this way . . .

Couple of dwarf/elf romances and people get delusions of grandeur!

Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse. DiFabio, why didn't you tell me.

 

[Bo Shrek]

Once you get over the CG, Azog was a more threatening (and scarier) villain than Lurtz. His face and body reminded me of a person I can't remember (might have been a wrestler from WWF days)

 

[jye4ever]

If I had to pick, Lurtz is still my favorite. Anyone who licks man flesh scares me.

 

[furystorm]

Ditto, Lurtz is scarier. Agog felt like a cartoon character.

 

[The Josh]

I may have rambled a bit.

 

[azurepred]

I don't understand a lot of the negativity, especially "the romance" since it was barely even there.

me neither. Only thing I disliked was the over use of CGI in spots. I would've never thought LOTR nerds would be on the same level as the SW nerds. Some people just can't enjoy something for what it is.

Kili dies in the book. He had to go like Fili and Thorin. I think a few more dwarves shoulda bought it too like the book.. I think 6 or 7 died total. I just don't remember the exact number

Spoiler

I never read it, but I thought Tauriel was defn gonna die from what I saw in the trailers. Now that I think about it, most of the dwarves didn't have much dialogue in this movie and were barely in it, so nobody would've really cared if they killed off more.

 

[The Ween]

If I had to pick, Lurtz is still my favorite. Anyone who licks man flesh scares me.

 

[furystorm]

Wait, was that a slight on fellatio? Come on man!

 

[Irvy]

I don't think it helped they chose to subtitle all the orc dialogue, it's already pretty alienating that they are cg characters, I just can't relate to them. I think that's why I like the goblin town part so much.

 

[azurepred]

what's so different about them using orc dialogue compared to whenever they choose to use elvish dialogue?

 

[Rulk]

Kili dies in the book. He had to go like Fili and Thorin. I think a few more dwarves shoulda bought it too like the book.. I think 6 or 7 died total. I just don't remember the exact number

Yeah I remember they all pretty much bit the dust .... All that lake town crap wasn't in it either.

I'd read it again, the book will always be better

 

[Xenoburger_]

What? I just read the book a few months ago and I thought only Kili, Fili and Thorin died?

 

[Irvy]

what's so different about them using orc dialogue compared to whenever they choose to use elvish dialogue?

Even that would have worked better. Azog speaking in the common tongue to Thorin and co would have made him a better villain.

 

[Rulk]

What? I just read the book a few months ago and I thought only Kili, Fili and Thorin died?

Odd. U are right. I remember reading this as a kid and shocked by the climatic ending. I was bummed out the dwarves died but after doing a Google search I guess it was just the 3

 

[Adolfo]

I had to go back to the last 2 chapters too...my son just told me That the 70s cartoon they killed off like 1/2 the dwarves

 

[jye4ever]

Wait, was that a slight on fellatio? Come on man!