Waiting for 'The Battle of the Five Armies'...

bungobaggins wrote:"I think of this third movie as a psychological thriller with action scenes interspersed in the middle of it."

Okay, so now The Hobbit is a psychological thriller? He really is just pulling this shit out of his ass.

bungobaggins wrote:When I hear "psychological thriller" I immediately think Hitchcock.

Don't you see? It'll be just like Vertigo, only with giant battles, and dwarves on goats so you don't get bored!

David H wrote:

It'll be just like Vertigo[/quote]

So...I'll get confused, angry, tired and left with a big headache?

malickfan wrote:

So...I'll get confused, angry, tired and left with a big headache?

I'd call that getting off easy!  

David H wrote:Don't you see? It'll be just like Vertigo, only with giant battles, and dwarves on goats so you don't get bored!

Oh, boy. I can't wait.

bungobaggins wrote:"I think of this third movie as a psychological thriller with action scenes interspersed in the middle of it."

Okay, so now The Hobbit is a psychological thriller? He really is just pulling this shit out of his ass.

I assume he's referring to the decline of Thorin's state of mind, but really it just makes it seem as though PJ has no idea what a psychological thriller is.

And I assume the tightness relates to pacing and the narrative, though "tight" has to be a relative description at this point.

Tinuviel wrote:Hopefully by "tight" he means no loose ends. My hope is everything gets tied up in the first fifteen minutes so we can just watch the storyline play out as it should. I have a feeling this one will be easier for him because all of the characters come together, so there can only really be one story line. No more subplots!

So Radagast, Tauriel, and Azog all come running around different corners, crash into each other and fall over flat on their backs with little chirping stars circling round their heads...and that's the last we hear of them.  Meanwhile, the story continues as it should have before being so rudely interrupted two films ago.

Well yes, it is obviously a relative tongue-in-cheek "tight" that we are speaking of here. Comparing Battle of the Five Armies to Transformers 4 is beginning to look more and more appropriate... Kudos on that I guess, you whorish magazine.

Petty: get to work pronto!

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Can I go by boat?

I have to assume it premieres in mid december, so you have 2.5 months to get to New Zealand. Maybe we can send Dave around to pick you up?

take the panama canal

Blimey

Wishful thinking but in the new "teaser" they have Bilbo saying something about those who did not make it as soon as the scene with what looks like Tauriel comes on. I'm hoping this means the elf wench will die (hopefully a nasty painful death) in this last film call me cruel but I think she was the worst part of film two. Right behind the horrible script, terrible acting, and made up sub par fanfiction that graced the majority of the film.

Aaaagreed Sin !

Not agreed!


The worst part was the sorrow-inducing malformations through which the Smaug and Bilbo scenes were subjected. They could have been as memorable as the Gollum bits form the first film, but instead they were awful.
That and every last thing that happened in Lake-town from beginning to end.


Edit: I only mention the Gollum bits from AUJ because it's so popular among fans of the movies. Personally, I didn't think that section of the film was all that amazing. Additions like "If Gollum wins, we eats it whole" were just not very good, at all. It just doesn't work in the wider context of Goblin-Town anyway.

Really, you think Tauriel was worse than the Smaug fight at the end, the marginalization of Bilbo, or, the bizarre transformation of Lake-town into the mini-USSR (and the main focus of at least a third of the film)?

Agreed, at least she's pretty. So, you know, you have something nice to look at it onscreen. Instead of just dwarves for miles interspersed here and there with comically-grubby Lake-towners.

The whole thing was terrible, but if I had to pick one thing above the rest it would be the Smaug fight/golden statue.

Well we did vote on the worst part of the film, and I'm pretty sure molten Smaug won. And Tauriel's character isn't so bad as the situationas she's put in by the script. I'm down for female action, so I'm kind of looking forward to Galadriel at Dol Guldur if not for a small little taste of something from Beren and Luthein. But they screwed up Tauriel by making her in a love triangle. Remove maybe one or two lines said by her regarding Kili and it would seem far more platonic that it was. Whatever. At this point, I hope she dies in a way that doesn't make her a martyr and doesn't make Thrandy send Legolas to the council in the next several decades.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't there a draw or something?

Anyway, perhaps it's easier to keep it at "These movies have had several weak moments."

Bluebottle wrote:Maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't there a draw or something?

Anyway, perhaps it's easier to keep it at "These movies have had several weak moments."

Wouldn't 'these movies have had several not weak moments' be more accurate

Ah, you're saying the weakness permeates the movies in such a way the good parts are actually the exception.

Well... that's certainly one way to look at things.

Or "These movies have managed to not give Purists heartburn for widely separated periods of about 5 seconds or so at a time."

Alternatively.. "The logo at the beggining looked kind of alright."

"Now and then you catch yourself becoming slightly less bored. This is usually accompanied by another long chase sequence, but the brief moment is almost worth it!"