'The Battle of the Five Armies' in theatres | SPOILERS

that's not Smaug

Looks more like Turkey-neck from Doctor Who! _ Forest

Thank you! its been bugging me since I first saw that image of Smaug what the buggery it was it reminded me off. Good spot!

What would you ask Tolkien? Evageline Lilly replied 'Do you hate women?'

http://collider.com/lee-pace-evangeline-lilly-orlando-bloom-the-hobbit-interview/

Isn't she supposed to be the Tolkien fan among them?

Also whats the nonsense with Kings being underground being related to Hitler in his bunker? What?

praps they feel they can say what they like & let their imagination career off into the sunset now that peejers has got away with blue muder. Goes to show how LITTLE they have actually read & all that they probably DO know has been drummed into them by Bog Brains Boyens & Wishy washy Walsh.

Lee Pace looked uncomfortable with the crap they were spewing. She fancies him, she kept touching him.

There's a LotR-style poster on that website as well:

Did they actually film it?   And replaced it with Azog on ice?  

Ugh this would have been FAR BETTER. Part of me wonders if the studio saw some rough footage and said "eh, not stupid enough. Let's make them each die kind of stupidly!" And we get Fili being stabbed randomly to bait Thorin (which doesn't really work cuz he just goes to kind Kili), Kili dying to protect Tauriel (I thought the point was that it was going to be the other way around? Her protecting him because she's a kind caring soul ) and Thorin pulling an Oberyn in assuming the enemy is dead beyond any doubt even though said villain is A FREAK OF NATURE.

And Evangeline wondering if Tolkien hates women.... Let me just say that statement sums up the ignorance of the Coven in that respect. It makes me too crabbit to even use words. I mean I guess she could have just trying to be funny, joking about the sausage fest the films typically are, but it came out as completely uninformed and STUPID!

Whoops. Just watched the interview. I've only seen/heard about that statement out of context. She went back and answered her own question

malickfan wrote:What would you ask Tolkien? Evageline Lilly replied 'Do you hate women?'

http://collider.com/lee-pace-evangeline-lilly-orlando-bloom-the-hobbit-interview/

I don't hate women, but I sure hate Evangeline Lily.

She is a woman, ergo, you do hate women.

Best to just not hate at all.

Evangeline Lily is a nincompoop

BOFA had pulled ahead of DOS at the US box office, but now both films are only 2 million dollars apart for their 29th day since release.

http://boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=vs-lotr.htm

BOFA's grand total is currently $238,969,825. I'm starting to doubt that it will make much more than DOS, perhaps just a few million more.

I was just looking at that same chart with the new weekend estimates.  I'm of the same opinion as bungo; less than five million over DOS seems like a reasonable forecast now.  Puts a bit of a dent in the whole "movie series finales get a boost over their predecessors" theory, although that was always based on a very small amount of data (both by number of movies and span of years) and so needs an asterisk attached to it.

Most things need asterisks attached to them, I've found.*


*Just saying.

I am fighting commas, the, little, blighters, keep, popping, up, everywhere, splitting, my, clauses

need a good grammar whipper-into-shaper pronto

On the box office front, BOFA remains more or less neck-and-neck with DOS in North America (less than a million behind day-to-day), but had a significantly better premiere in China, where DOS was also up compared to AUJ.  A billion looks still unlikely, but it's not completely out of the picture yet.

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4010&p=.htm

This is old by now, but I don't recall it getting too much attention, although maybe I just missed it or forgot. But if there is still anyone denying the obvious, this should be trumpeted from the mountaintops, just like pj's comment about adaptation not being a priority.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/04/no-regrets-peter-jackson-says-goodbye-to-middle-earth.html

Obviously The Hobbit is the story of Thorin Oakenshield’s quest for the Lonely Mountain

Eldorion wrote:

Obviously The Hobbit is the story of Thorin Oakenshield’s quest for the Lonely Mountain

He certainly carried through on that conviction. And whether it was or wasn't, it certainly was by the time he was finished with it.

I haven't seen Three. I should have learned my lesson by watching One but watched Two in vague hope. Knowing PJ, I should never have allowed myself even even a vague hope.

You are too delicate a flower Anne to be crushed beneath PJ's vision- stay well clear I say, and pure!

I don't think BOFA will catch up to DOS at the domestic box office.

http://boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=daily&id=vs-lotr.htm

Probably not.  The improved China gross will be enough to give it a stronger foreign finish, but it's almost certainly not going to reach $1 billion due to fall-offs in other countries.