The Hobbit is Not Very Good: An Unexpected Analysis - Part 3: The Battle of the Five Armies

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• JC

  @jcore0981 · 3 years ago

  A Random Film Talk is never late. He arrives precisely when he means to

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• GA

  @gary_stavropoulos · 3 years ago

  “Out of my way, abandon the cripples” is my battle cry.

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• SO

  @sootythunder3111 · 2 years ago

  you were spot on with your interperation on why smaug didn&apos;t immediantly wipe out the town, in the book we get a look inside smaug mind when attacking the town and what he planned on doing was to drive all the people into their boats trying to escape the town and but everytime one of the boats got to shore he would swoop down and either kill the people in the boat or scare them back into the middle of the lake, he wanted to have the people choose between dying to dragonfire trying to flee from the lake or die to exposure out in the middle of the lake with limited food and ways to keep warm at night. He had planned to kill them all over the course of a week swooping down on the people in the middle of the lake everytime he got hungry.<br>He didn&apos;t just want to kill them, he wanted to torment them

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• RI

  @rickyrobby8133 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Dain ends up being a great king. He helps the people of Dale become incredibly rich and he rebuilds relations between the Elves of Mirkwood and Dwarves, basically both occur because of all the trading that happens. <br><br>We don’t see him in the LOTR movies because they’re fighting their own war near Erebor. Sauron tries to corrupt Dain by offering him the three Dwarven Rings he had if Dain tells him who “Baggins” is. He refuses, that is why Gimli and Gloin are at the meeting that creates the Fellowship. Dain sends them to warn Elrond that Sauron is mobilizing and has interest in Bilbo. <br><br>Dain ultimately dies protecting the people of Dale who were retreating into Erebor. His son, Thorin III, then is able to defeat the armies attacking Erebor after his father dies and he goes on to rule Erebor after the War of the Ring.

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• AR

  @ArvindMenon1150 · 3 years ago

  My favorite part of Battle of Five Armies is when Tauriel tearfully asks &quot;Why does it hurt so much?&quot; to which the shot reverses and Thranduil is suddenly replaced with Peter Jackson in a blonde wig saying &quot;New Zealand trade unions and profits from 3 films instead of 2&quot;

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• CO

  @connor-c5j · 8 months ago

  A small detail I noticed: The dwarves are fully armoured whilst in Erebor and then they seem to take off all the armour just before charging into open battle. 🤷‍♂️

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• T.

  @t.i.5528 · 3 years ago

  The fact that this movie shows a fantastic, emotionally moving, crucial and borderline tearjerking scene where Thorin dies making amends with Bilbo (the two most important characters) who breaks up mourning him and then cuts immediately to the pointless and vapid Elf Dwarf romance subplot with Tauriel mourning someone she met 3 days ago and has barely any chemistry with is both laughable and infuriating.

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• FR

  @freman007 · 3 years ago

  Although Bard didn&apos;t really get a backstory in The Hobbit, because Tolkien, telling the story to his children, needed a hero to kill the dragon, the little he gets is very cool. He leads the archers of Laketown, firing arrow after arrow until he is the only one left, and he is down to his last arrow, an arrow handed down from father to son, an arrow that may have been formed in Erebor itself.<br><br>&quot;Arrow!&quot; said the bowman. &quot;Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!&quot;<br><br>Now that&apos;s cool.<br><br>Firing a ballista bolt from a broken bow is nowhere near as cool.

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• SA

  @SaaitanK · 2 years ago

  I did have this video running in the background, but hearing the sentence &quot;He decides to use his son as a bow.&quot; had me sit down in front of my PC and watch attentively in confusion. XD

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• MA

  @matthewcollins4773 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m glad to see that Warner Bros., chiefest and greatest of calamities, hasn&apos;t succeeded in burning down the project in rage and spite.

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• KH

  @KhorneBrzrkr · 3 years ago

  “Was it just hordes of orcs chilling and minding their own business until Sauron got back from his holiday in Dol Guldur”<br><b>horde of orcs yelling and beating the s**</b> out of each other*<br>That cracked me up. 🤣

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• DO

  @doctorwinston7767 · 2 years ago

  The armies look worse because in the Hobbit trilogy they were entirely computer generated, whereas in the Rings trilogy they had actual costumed extras form a small army which they then duplicated to appear much larger.

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