
So. The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies.
Yeah. This movie. I went into the theatre fully expecting it to be ridiculous. But oh. OH did it go above and beyond my expectations.
I saw...someone jump from an eagle. I had no idea who it was. Suddenly A BEAR WAS FALLING FROM THE SKY. Beorn, you...you skydived. From an eagle. Into a mass of orcs.
At that point I just started laughing. The movie could have ended right at that point, I would have left the theatre with a sigh and a smile and...oh the things Tolkien never could have imagined would happen in his world.
Skydiving Beorn.
What even is this movie.
Yeah. This movie. I went into the theatre fully expecting it to be ridiculous. But oh. OH did it go above and beyond my expectations.
I saw...someone jump from an eagle. I had no idea who it was. Suddenly A BEAR WAS FALLING FROM THE SKY. Beorn, you...you skydived. From an eagle. Into a mass of orcs.
At that point I just started laughing. The movie could have ended right at that point, I would have left the theatre with a sigh and a smile and...oh the things Tolkien never could have imagined would happen in his world.
Skydiving Beorn.
What even is this movie.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
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I know! I was like "oh shit these worms are CRUSHING ROCKS everyone is SCREWED" and then they were like "k bye".
Why didn't you use them to, I dunno, crush everyone? Create a giant sinkhole beneath that nice elvish army formation and kill them all at once? You orcs really don't know how to war, do you?
Why didn't you use them to, I dunno, crush everyone? Create a giant sinkhole beneath that nice elvish army formation and kill them all at once? You orcs really don't know how to war, do you?
Well, considering all they've been doing this WHOLE TIME is failing to catch some dwarves who aren't particularly trying hard to hide themselves...
No. No, they do not.
But hey, at least they didn't rewrite mister "All I want in the world is to be king" as surviving, while they were at the whole 'we must create sexual tension with a character who was never there in the books anyway' aka 'mister point blank arrow shots to the face specialist'. :P Though I guess it's just some more eye candy for me, but IN ANY CASE.
No. No, they do not.
But hey, at least they didn't rewrite mister "All I want in the world is to be king" as surviving, while they were at the whole 'we must create sexual tension with a character who was never there in the books anyway' aka 'mister point blank arrow shots to the face specialist'. :P Though I guess it's just some more eye candy for me, but IN ANY CASE.
Ugh movie Legolas just annoys the hell out of me. I could tolerate him in the Lord of the Rings, but Orlando Bloom is like a male version of Kristen Stewart - he has a surprisingly difficult time showing more than 5% emotion. Even when he's made he's just...neutral. And yeah, he wasn't even supposed to be in the Hobbit. Obviously he existed during the story, but he wasn't written into the book. As I've said to others, I'm not even really going to complain with additions/omissions since the movie, as I see it, is a stand-alone and not really a loyal interpretation of the book. It's enjoyable on its own as an over-the-top Middle Earth battlefest, but at the same time, Legolas with his physics-defying battle-gymnastics and total lack of emotion kind of took away some of the enjoyment of the movie for me.
He's actually sorta Vulcan, as in you know he has super strong emotions, but he suppresses and doesn't let them control them or let them show ever. Well, actually he doesn't act very logically, so maybe Vulcan in emotion-handliing without any of the goddamned logic.
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