"The Hobbit: There And Back Again" To be Renamed "The Battle of the Five Armies"

[Mister Underhill]

Well I've been putting it off, but seeing the discussion here I finally watched it.

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Originally Posted by Aganzir

Peter Jackson shows he hasn't improved as a director one bit in these 15 years.

I guess I must be some kind of optimist at heart. When the Hobbit movies finally moved out of legal limbo and into production, I hoped that Peter Jackson had matured as a filmmaker in the intervening years. Unfortunately, it seems he has only come to fully embrace all of his worst instincts, while discarding his few directorial virtues (filming on location, practical effects when possible).

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

In my opinion [Freeman] hasn't made a particularly great Bilbo Baggins.

Again, I was cautiously optimistic when Freeman was cast, but now it's quite clear to me that he is wrong for the role. He has one schtick -- bumfuzzled everyman. God bless him he's working it as hard as he can and presumably socking away a nice retirement nest egg. But Bilbo ain't "everyman".