The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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Agreed.
I'll drink to that as well.
Off to see BotFA for the fourth time this afternoon.
I also found that Gandalf's return as the White Wizard was a MUCH bigger deal after watching him be Gandalf the Grey for four movies instead of one.
I'm surprised that Mockingjay didn't do better. I guess 2014 won't have a $400 million US movie after all.
Mockingjay is still bringing in money, just like The Hobbit will for awhile yet. I know so many people that won't set foot in a theater anymore. Too expensive they say.
I know a few people like that who just wait for the DVD/Blu-ray/Digital release due to the expense and because of rude, disrespectful punks with entitlement issues.
I watched The Two Towers tonight for the first time in about two years. Like FOTR there are a good number of ways that I feel that the Hobbit films connect with this one and make it even better.
Even little things like Legolas being a more humanitarian elf in this trilogy but when he gets pushed past a certain point (like when Eomer threatens Gimli or he becomes upset at their odds in Helm's Deep) the old **** from Mirkwood can't help but come out a little bit.
I really like how the Elrond/Galadriel discussion plays about whether they should leave men to be "alone" and suffer their fate and how their old ally Saruman is now a puppet of Sauron after seeing them face down Sauron together in BOTFA. I know back in 2002 some people didn't like PJ adding elves to Helm's Deep but that plays even better after BOTFA. I thought a good number of other things in the Hobbit films were cool links, even indirectly. Like Eowen saying that the women of Rohan learned long ago that women without swords can still die on them which reminded me of the ever so slight parallel of the women in Dale taking up arms for the first time 60 years prior. Just those subtle evolutionary links that aren't direct references but that still just flow ever so nicely from one trilogy to the next.
I will say that the LOTR, even TTT, is just on a different level than The Hobbit. They are just so good, to me nothing in all of cinema touches them. But I'll never write off the Hobbit films because they are different or "less" or whatever. No way. They are incredibly entertaining in their own right and actually enhance the LOTR films. I'll always link them together. Hell BOTFA might end up being my fourth favorite film of all time when all is said and done. Can't wait for the EE.
And lets not forget Theoden's line before they make their final charge: "The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep, one last time."
The points you make about the subtle links is spot on IMO.
Will you two get a room already
Yeah that's a lot of clinking glass emoticons. If we aren't careful someone's bound to being doing the walk of shame soon.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Ok, now you're losing it.
Ummm, how about:
Raiders
SW
ESB
T1
T2
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Robocop
TDK
Batman 89
STM
Avengers
TWS
Ok, now you're losing it.
Ummm, how about:
Raiders
SW
ESB
T1
T2
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Robocop
TDK
Batman 89
STM
Avengers
TWS
Most of those wouldn't be in MY top 10.
Bo Shrek
Super Freak
Ok, now you're losing it.
Ummm, how about:
Raiders
SW
ESB
T1
T2
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Robocop
TDK
Batman 89
STM
Avengers
TWS
That's so beautiful!!
Ok, now you're losing it.
Ummm, how about:
Raiders
SW
ESB
T1
T2
Predator
Die Hard
Aliens
Robocop
TDK
Batman 89
STM
Avengers
TWS
BOTFA's real contenders would be SW, ESB, TWS, and Aliens. I absolutely prefer it to all the other ones on that list. Is it as good as Raiders? No. But PJ's Middle-Earth really is my "thing" and BOTFA hit all the right notes for me.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Most of those wouldn't be in MY top 10.
Brings tears to your eyes don't they.
Hmmmm
DIFABIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
For me it's:
LOTR/Hobbit
SW/ESB
TFA/TWS
ALIENS
Those really are my "core movies" that will probably be in my Top 10/11 until the day I die.
Unless another movie in one of those series trumps one of them (like SW:TFA or Civil War) but I think that would be highly unlikely.I'm a Miyazaki nut so also:
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Nausicaa
Then:
Black Hawk Down
Bullet in the Head (1990)
RoboCop
Unforgiven
The Terminator
Raiders/TOD
Macross DYRL
Way below all of those are the rest on your list (Die Hard, Predator, STM, B89, Avengers, etc.)
I think I chased him away.
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