Howard Shore's The Battle of the Five Armies (Hobbit Part 3)

[Bilbo 4,298]

31 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

Lee Pace plays Thranduil.

 

Luke Evans plays Bard

 

Ah got the actors names mixed up!

[Chen G. 6,198]

2 hours ago, A. A. Ron said:

A handful of good individual scenes isn't enough to make a movie "salvageable" for me.

 

See, I'm a simple man. To me, if the climax of a movie works, then no matter how winding and bumpy the ride to that climax might have been, ultimately the climax is what matters. Not only because that's ultimately what you're left with, but because if the climax worked, evidentally amid the bumps and longueurs enough of the movie worked in the lead-up to that climax.

 

And you know what? This works:

 

 

And this works:

 

 

And this works:

 

 

Like I said, simple man.

 

Oh, and it's not a lookalike like Rings of Power. So it's an easy pick for this one. That is all.

[TolkienSS 546]

RoP is too long for its own good. Even if a climax was satisfying, it's a boring slog.

Five armies is too short in all the wrong places.

[Chen G. 6,198]

2 minutes ago, TolkienSS said:

Five armies is too short in all the wrong places.

 

There are times where I watch and feel "Oh, it's over?" but the extended edition gives me that feeling less than the theatrical did in its day, so I'm good with it being the length it is.

 

Rings of Power is indeed very slow. I was never expecting a Tolkien project to be even slower than An Unexpected Journey had been, but Rings of Power did it. Takes over six hours for a plot of any kind to coalesce. And, again, it's just such a lookalike that it undermines the basic authenticity you want out of a fantasy story.

[Rachael Foley 10,216]

14 minutes ago, TolkienSS said:

 

Five armies is too short in all the wrong places.

On an aside, I kinda felt that way about Revenge of the Sith back in the day. (I was 10)

[Edmilson 12,500]

1 hour ago, TolkienSS said:

too short in all the wrong places.

That's what she said 

[Rachael Foley 10,216]

Here is the choir from Thorin's funeral in the EE Isolated with AI, perhaps this is closer to the original recorded composition?

 

 

@Chen G.@Kühni@Jim Ware

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,538]

On 07/12/2024 at 9:49 PM, Chen G. said:

Rings of Power is indeed very slow. I was never expecting a Tolkien project to be even slower than An Unexpected Journey had been, but Rings of Power did it.

 

Its not just that they're slow, they're sluggish.

 

What's the opposite of slow burn?

[Jay 46,588]

Fast freeze?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,538]

No.....

[Incanus 5,894]

Glacially paced tedium/waste of time?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,538]

I like it!