|a eng |a fre |a spa |j eng |j fre |j spa |h eng |a NjBwBT |b eng |e rda |c NjBwBT |d COB |d LCPL The Hobbit is a footnote and, for me, easy to forget.|a 1000366198 |b Warner Bros. The Lord of the Rings trilogy will always have a place in movie history. I was relieved when Bilbo worked his way back to the Shire for a little R&R before the tale of the ring begins. OK, it’s only an hour of screen time, but it taught me the meaning of eternity.
The doomed romance between Amazonian elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) and the besotted dwarf Kili (Aidan Turner) doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.Īt that point, Jackson marshals the five armies in a battle that goes on relentlessly for days. Even the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) can’t stop the war. The only thing that brings these homies together is opposition to the armies of ugly Orcs, beholding to the dark lord Sauron. Even the dwarf prince Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) falls prey to greed. There are the dwarves led by General Ironfoot (Billy Connolly), the Woodland elves headed by Thranduil (Lee Pace), and the humans who look for guidance to boat-captain Bard (Luke Evans). With Smaug smote, everyone heads to the mountain of Erebor to slobber over treasure and seize power. It’s an opening sequence of digitial dazzlement. The film picks up with the pissed-off dragon Smaug (icily voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) laying waste to the citizens of Laketown who stupidly led hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) to his lair. I’ve done all the prep work and I still struggled. If you haven’t read Tolkien and seen the previous two films, you will be lost at The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The Hobbit movies are so bloated they could survive at sea without flotation devices. But Jackson and screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens don’t seem as fired up as they once were. It was never meant to be three movies, except by those who worship at the altar of box-office. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is a slender volume, a quarter the size of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings masterwork and taking place 60 years before. At 144 minutes, it’s half an hour shorter than its drag-ass predecessors.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is 20 percent inspiration, 80 percent desperation. In dutifully completing his prequel trilogy to his three-part Lord of the Rings triumph, director Peter Jackson has sadly saved the worst for last.
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