Re: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Well, its the premier of "The Battle of the Five Armies" in London tonight and nobody really seems to have noticed. A certain teaser trailer seems to have entirely stolen all the thunder, the calendar slot ( and arguably even the 'flaming' sword) and that’s a little sad.
Although "The Hobbit" has been a bit of a disappointment so far I'm hoping this final episode will at least redeem itself. At least we’ll see Smaug exact his far too delayed revenge on Esgaroth (but still I really don’t think I’ll forgive Peter Jackson for that final cut after Smaugs golden shower, perhaps he was taking the proverbial!)
The high points for me so far were certainly the“Riddles in the Dark” in the first , and “Flies and Spiders” in the second. I’m wondering what will be the best in the third. There certainly seems more scope here to drift very much further from the book, as there are only about fifty pages left and I doubt that Bilbo will be asleep for the most of it. I wonder if that will be true of the audience???
It’s a shame that there seems such a sense of an “anticlimax” about this last trip to Middle Earth and I’m not really sure why this is. Perhaps the success of the LOTR was that they took a very dense and ,to be honest, complex text with all its back histories and mythology and made a lighter and far more enjoyable screenplay of it which was so successful that I still watch with pleasure each winter. I certainly felt a twinge of nostalgia for them as a series whilst looking at the swords at the Royal Armoury a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps a certain "Game of " has stolen the throne of fantasy lovers hearts everywhere now. People certainly seem more desperate for forth coming news and rumour of the next series and yet “The Hobbit” does not seem to manage to come anywhere close to that level of interest ,even at the very end of the journey.
For me I guess its the fact that an engaging and nimble story has just been somewhat suffocated beneath a few too many ponderous subplots and over exaggerated action sequences which just slowed things far too much. I know the same could be said particularly of GOT but then why does that work and The Hobbit doesn't?
I hope this last one does manage to lift the series as it would be a great shame if it doesn’t ,for a lot of talented people have put their heart and souls into it
PS Out next Friday 12th in UK
Well, its the premier of "The Battle of the Five Armies" in London tonight and nobody really seems to have noticed. A certain teaser trailer seems to have entirely stolen all the thunder, the calendar slot ( and arguably even the 'flaming' sword) and that’s a little sad.
Although "The Hobbit" has been a bit of a disappointment so far I'm hoping this final episode will at least redeem itself. At least we’ll see Smaug exact his far too delayed revenge on Esgaroth (but still I really don’t think I’ll forgive Peter Jackson for that final cut after Smaugs golden shower, perhaps he was taking the proverbial!)
The high points for me so far were certainly the“Riddles in the Dark” in the first , and “Flies and Spiders” in the second. I’m wondering what will be the best in the third. There certainly seems more scope here to drift very much further from the book, as there are only about fifty pages left and I doubt that Bilbo will be asleep for the most of it. I wonder if that will be true of the audience???
It’s a shame that there seems such a sense of an “anticlimax” about this last trip to Middle Earth and I’m not really sure why this is. Perhaps the success of the LOTR was that they took a very dense and ,to be honest, complex text with all its back histories and mythology and made a lighter and far more enjoyable screenplay of it which was so successful that I still watch with pleasure each winter. I certainly felt a twinge of nostalgia for them as a series whilst looking at the swords at the Royal Armoury a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps a certain "Game of " has stolen the throne of fantasy lovers hearts everywhere now. People certainly seem more desperate for forth coming news and rumour of the next series and yet “The Hobbit” does not seem to manage to come anywhere close to that level of interest ,even at the very end of the journey.
For me I guess its the fact that an engaging and nimble story has just been somewhat suffocated beneath a few too many ponderous subplots and over exaggerated action sequences which just slowed things far too much. I know the same could be said particularly of GOT but then why does that work and The Hobbit doesn't?
I hope this last one does manage to lift the series as it would be a great shame if it doesn’t ,for a lot of talented people have put their heart and souls into it
PS Out next Friday 12th in UK