"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".

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

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".

He really lost me during the inside the mountain sequence of DoS.

I realize it was not entirely his fault, but everything about his performance was just bad. The Gollum sequence in UJ was pretty good(ish), but the Smaug sequence was just bad.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

He really lost me during the inside the mountain sequence of DoS.

I realize it was not entirely his fault, but everything about his performance was just bad. The Gollum sequence in UJ was pretty good(ish), but the Smaug sequence was just bad.

I wouldn't says he's actually bad, it's more that he sort of overplays underplaying it (if that makes any sense).

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

I wouldn't says he's actually bad, it's more that he sort of overplays underplaying it (if that makes any sense).

Knocking on a pillar in a diffident attempt to determine if Smaug is still home seems pretty bad to me.

[FerniesApple]

couldnt they at least find some nice stunt feet for Galadriel? those great flapping feet were a real turn off, no wonder Gandalf fainted.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by FerniesApple

couldnt they at least find some nice stunt feet for Galadriel? those great flapping feet were a real turn off, no wonder Gandalf fainted.

She's thousands of years old, what do you expect?

In any case, I don't think they made that scene with the intention of turning you on.

[FerniesApple]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

She's thousands of years old, what do you expect?

In any case, I don't think they made that scene with the intention of turning you on.

I dont think they made that scene with the intention of making me imagine Gollum in a long White lacy dress tho.

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

In any case, I don't think they made that scene with the intention of turning you on.

With this crew, how can you be sure?