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mirkwoodwanderer
Lorien
Jan 12 2015, 1:52pm
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I have seen the movie 20 times now, Amazing how many new things you keep seeing. Battle of the 5 armies truely is the best movie ever made.
Can't wait for the E.E.
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Glorfindela
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Jan 12 2015, 2:10pm
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I'm only up to seven, but like you I keep seeing new things every time I view the film and appreciate it more each time. Yesterday, for instance, I noticed Thorin's similarity to Roac (among other things!), and I love the way Roac talks and Thorin looks as though he understands his language (I think it's much better to have Roac talk in Ravenish than in human speech).
The first time I saw the film, I was a bit confused by the battle – it's because the events were so fast paced – but it is much clearer to me now. (Although I appreciate Bilbo's 'Where is north?')
I have seen the movie 20 times now, Amazing how many new things you keep seeing. Battle of the 5 armies truely is the best movie ever made.
Can't wait for the E.E.
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QuackingTroll
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Jan 12 2015, 2:23pm
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PJ said he doesn't understand fans that rewatch multiple times...
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He said in an interview he thinks its mad when people say they've seen RotK over 20 times. But I wonder how many times he's seen King Kong. I imagine a lot.
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Me85
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Jan 12 2015, 2:24pm
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I'm only up to seven, but like you I keep seeing new things every time I view the film and appreciate it more each time. Yesterday, for instance, I noticed Thorin's similarity to Roac (among other things!), and I love the way Roac talks and Thorin looks as though he understands his language (I think it's much better to have Roac talk in Ravenish than in human speech).
The first time I saw the film, I was a bit confused by the battle – it's because the events were so fast paced – but it is much clearer to me now. (Although I appreciate Bilbo's 'Where is north?
I've only seen it once.
Yeah it was fast paced. When exactly did the battle end anyway? I don't remember. When Azog was defeated? I really need to see it again.
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One Ringer
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Jan 12 2015, 2:28pm
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We don't all have private theaters,
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For me, I'll go and see a movie in the cinema several times on account of the fact that we only get two months, give or take, to see a movie in that format. Sure, there's the SLIGHT chance that a movie could get a re-release, but nothing guaranteed. Watching movies at home with a solid widescreen and surround sound is plenty good, but nothing like it is in the auditorium.
"You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
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Glorfindela
Valinor
Jan 12 2015, 2:32pm
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…is the music. I find it so appropriate to the film – from the 'psychotic' music for Smaug, to the 'heroic' strands for the Dwarves. I'm also pleased that it doesn't drown out other sounds, especially dialogue, as so often happens in other films these days. (Sometimes the music in a film is so loud that it is almost painful to listen to it.)
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
Jan 12 2015, 2:33pm
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I wonder how many times PJ has seen his movies just in the editing process
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I would think that the multiple takes and nuances he would have to sort through for each minute of each scene, all while editing up until the last second under intense pressure, would kind of put him off wanting to rewatch them at all!
“Tollers,” Lewis said to Tolkien, “there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.”
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DanielLB
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Jan 12 2015, 2:50pm
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I have no desire to see the movie a fourth time. I am feeling firmly meh by the movie. But I am really glad that there are people enjoying it. I really wanted people to love AUJ and DOS, and I saw them nearly 10 times each.
What's your favourite scene then?
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Arannir
Valinor
Jan 12 2015, 3:12pm
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Unfortunately, I kept finding more and more things that annoyed me and after four viewings I decided that there is no use getting angry about something like this, so I decided not to watch it again until the EE.
I was enjoying the first time I saw it, though already not feeling sure about whether there wasn't also a very hallow feeling within me.
So I went back hoping it was just the knowledge of the story being over. But with each viewing I saw more and more things that screamed either "bad screenwriting" or "bad film-making" or both at me. And - maybe the most annyoing - the untouched potential that the filmmakers' approach offered.
When I watched it the fourth time with AUJ and DoS back to back closely before, I realized how badly the trilogy flows at this point, IMHO.
That is when I realized that I simply don't think this is a good movie, just a mediocre one with some really bad, but thankfully, also some pretty good stuff in it. At least enough to hope that the EE will make things kind of okay (though it cannot be saved completely for my liking, imho).
So cinematically this is it with this trilogy for me. Sadly, it ended up being a disappointing experience for me, yet I value what I can enjoy, still thinking AUJ and DoS are good movies.
I will watch this second trilogy at home for sure in the future and surely some of the more annoying things will receive a certain level of acceptance by my inner-self. Though it is kind of sad to say that - while recommending them for fantasy-lovers - I would never recommend them as generally great movies. As great the technical and artistic aspects (and some of the acting), as bad has the overall structure and script of this last one been (bad enough to bring down the entire trilogy quite a bit).
But I am sincerely happy for anyone who can enjoy them more than I can. I still remember feeling like some of you after RotK and it is a great feeling and experience to have :)
"I am afraid it is only too likely to be true what you say about the critics and the public. I am dreading the publication for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at." J.R.R. Tolkien
We all have our hearts and minds one way or another invested in these books and movies. So we all mind and should show the necessary respect.
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Merovech
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Jan 12 2015, 3:39pm
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Alright then. Keep throwing your money at it, it might come true!
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dormouse
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Jan 12 2015, 3:55pm
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For the OP it already is true...
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.. or he/she wouldn't have said it.
I count The Hobbit as one of my favourite films of all time.
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Avandel
Half-elven
Jan 12 2015, 4:30pm
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Am so spoiled, but as long as the flim is in IMAX why not grab the opportunity? And like AUJ and DOS, I will probably have seen the film several hundred times, ultimately.
Because these films are like favorite books now - like the LOTR films you take them from the shelf and go to Middle Earth again .
I think I saw DOS over 20 times in theater. Don't usually keep track, if the funds are available and I want to go see something, I just go. IMO these films NEED repeat views , especially BOFA. Thanks to this "thriller" pace, I found for me it took 3 views just for the film to "settle" and I knew what and where to focus, and was able to start luxuriating in the details and performance nuances.
Re the performances, with repeat views it's truly a jolt taking in how good, how PERFECT IMO they really are. One funny thing I noticed yesterday, when the four dwarves are arrive and are looking down at all the gold before Thorin walks in, Fili's face looks bemused more than anything, but LOL briefly Bofur's face lights up with a big smile (ha ha - I love these guys!)
Still, I can't wait for the BR and watching every precious frame of the film. Well, except parts of the end, for me it's too hard and disrespectful, and I don't want to. But finally getting to see some of the fight sequences at my leisure, and studying the broken Erebor, and replaying key scenes - makes me shiver with ANTICI-------------------PATION
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Avandel
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Jan 12 2015, 4:38pm
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And in many ways, without being some trained film expert, I think the Hobbit movies ARE the best movies ever made, in the sense they have become my favorites for many reasons.
I don't know in a PROFESSIONAL or TECHNICAL sense how one could determine the "best" film ever made - seems to me even "experts" would never agree on that.
But LOL, I say unto all , from the looks of the top movie THIS weekend at the BO, folks might be well advised to spend their money on BOFA. Because I like the "Taken" series, but I got a laugh at how many writers informed their readers that their money would be taken re Taken 3, ROFLOL
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adt100
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Jan 12 2015, 5:34pm
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Most I ever managed to see a film in cinemas was (I think) 18 for ROTK.
I'm going for my 4th viewing of BOFA this weekend. Gutted I never got to see any of them in HFR. Seems most of the (small number) of screens showing in that format in the UK have stopped now. :(
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Glorfindela
Valinor
Jan 12 2015, 5:37pm
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…especially the first paragraph. Moreover, Taken is a straight to TV film for me.
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Glorfindela
Valinor
Jan 12 2015, 5:40pm
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I only managed to see it once in HFR – it seemed to be stopped remarkably quickly in the UK. Since then I have been seeing it in IMAX 3D, which is a very impressive second choice. I hope I will be able to catch it in that format for a few weeks yet, even if I have to travel somewhere to see it.
Most I ever managed to see a film in cinemas was (I think) 18 for ROTK.
I'm going for my 4th viewing of BOFA this weekend. Gutted I never got to see any of them in HFR. Seems most of the (small number) of screens showing in that format in the UK have stopped now. :(
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BlackFox
Half-elven
Jan 12 2015, 7:03pm
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Whenever I get a queer look when I tell someone I'm planning to go and see BOFA again, I smile and say: "You think three/four/five times is a lot? You have no idea."
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Jan 12 2015, 7:30pm
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I'm pretty busy, ununfortunately. 
How many Tolkien fans does it take to change a light bulb?
"Change? Oh my god, what do you mean change?! Never, never, never......"
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entmaiden
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Jan 12 2015, 7:57pm
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Grammaboodawg usually makes it into the twenties
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She saw the original three about 50 times each in the theaters, but back then movies were kept in theaters longer. I'm not sure where she is now for BOTFA.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Jan 12 2015, 9:22pm
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theatre (or is it theater?) well then...
BACK TO YOUR BOOKS! 
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BlackFox
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Jan 12 2015, 9:57pm
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... but now I won't.  Too bad the theatres are already closed for today... 
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Spriggan
Tol Eressea
Jan 12 2015, 11:47pm
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Many apologies if you are aware but just to double check you do know North is not at the top of that map?
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Glorfindela
Valinor
Jan 12 2015, 11:50pm
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It matters not a whit to me anyway – I just thought Bilbo's comment was funny.
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Otaku-sempai
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Jan 13 2015, 12:33am
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The trouble is, Ravenhill is South!
No, Dwarves orient their maps East to West, not North to South--Thor included.
"The Great Scaly One protects us from alien invaders and ourselves with his fiery atomic love. It can be a tough love - the “folly of man” and all that - but Godzilla is a fair god.
"Godzilla is totally accepting of all people and faiths. For it is written that liberal or conservative, Christian or Muslim or Jew, straight or gay, all people sound pretty much the identical as they are crushed beneath his mighty feet." - Tony Isabella, The First Church of Godzilla (Reform)
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Well said, Avandel (as usual)
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