Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) by Var_Stark — 18 Dec 2014

Good Job on screwing a big saga PJ. The movie starts in a rush, in less than 20 minutes he just ends all the secondary storylines, and then starts preparing for the battle. This is when the movies gets its finest, comprehensible situations, tension, dignified characters, psychological dilemas, bargaging... actually feels like the old movies, you know something serious happens here. Then the battle begins, everything goes well (the company suffers the madness of thorin, Bardo tries to defend his people, the elves and the dwarves doing good fight) and then... everything becomes marvel.

A movie called the battle of the 5 armies switches into the most epic and useless 1vs1 in the middle earth.What happens with the core of the battle?, the heroes trying to defend what is important, fighting for the good and the land. Real struggles, down in the field of battle... all gone. The movie becomes a ridiculous SFX choreography between legolas, tauriel, thorin, Azog and Bolgo... just like marvel you've got serious business happening down there but wtf," we have to make a badass battle betwen the villain and the hero, who **** cares about the rest? " Well I do, and that was what made battles in LOTR great, the heros were showy, they were better than the rest but they FOUGHT with them, Would you imagine in the return of the king that Aragorn just goes to find sauron far away from the battle, have a badass fight with sauron wich you know it's totally gonna lose and forget about everyone dying in the field??? THAT's HORRIBLE.

HORRYBLE DECITIONS IMO.

Some may say, OH YEAH, THE VISUALS ARE GRAT, SO AWESOME SPECIAL EFFECTS, dude I am a VFX technitian, I **** love VFX and I tell you, if this movie were suppose to feed with VFX it would be MORBID FAT, horrible fat. It just has VFX in excess, not even necesary, nor for the plot, not for the sake of the movie. Yeah, there are some spectacular effects SO WHAT, they arn't even necessary. What happens with the totally unnecesary bell, Legolas just defying gravity, those horrible Orcs (seriously, what happend to the orcs? why do they look like a videogame?) once again, so many bad decitions.

This movie could have been very good if it just went to the point, focus on creating an actually good battle, working on the relationships and stopped inventing ridiculous stunts and scenes.