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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Film · 144 min
Part of The Hobbit Collection
Directed by Peter Jackson
Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
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Sturgeon's law applies - 90% of everything is crap. 90% of movies shot on film were terrible too. Everything in the direct-to-video bargain bin in Blockbuster in the 80s and 90s was shot on film, and trust me, they were not all Tremors II.
So when more stuff gets made, more crap gets made. But the 10% that's good gets bigger too.
You want a world that contains Everything Everywhere All At Once? You have to also accept The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as well. Sorry.
> (just like The Hobbit movies)
This is a good point. Everyone is saying people just expected Peter Jackson movies and got disappoint... but the Hobbit series was PJ and had a significant amount of negative reviews. Especially the further it got into the series, particularly by diehards.
For ex: this imdb page has plenty of 1 and 10s, just like the new show but you can't simply dismiss it all as culture war nonsense like people are trying to do this time around
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310332/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
I'm more interested in what those 20 movies are. I found:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981
1 Raiders of the Lost Ark 2 On Golden Pond 3 Superman II 4 Arthur 5 Stripes 6 The Cannonball Run 7 Chariots of Fire 8 For Your Eyes Only 9 The Four Seasons 10 Time Bandits
Of which I guess 2, 3, 8 isn't original.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2:w014
1 American Sniper 2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 3 Guardians of the Galaxy 4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 5 The LEGO Movie 6 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 7 Transformers: Age of Extinction 8 Maleficent 9 X-Men: Days of Future Past 10 Big Hero 6
Of which only 10 is original.
The latest Hobbit was a tour de force compared to the second one. What an absolute piece of garbage that was. Talk about milking the book for all it's worth. One 3 hour movie probably would have sufficed to the tell the Hobbit story.