Movie review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Second Viewing

[annathepiper]

Dara and I went out last night with friends for her first viewing of Five Armies and my second one. My overall reaction to the movie remains pretty close to my initial one, i.e., I’m clocking it in at a B-.

I’m overall still pretty happy with the movies we got; as I said in my initial post, I’d rather spend time talking about what I love about these movies rather than lambasting Mr. Jackson for the movies he didn’t make. And with that in mind, I wanted to address a couple of things from Dara’s reactions that actually make me feel better about certain things I talked about in the first post.

Everyone to the gate for SPOILERS!

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Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Saw it today. WHY HAVE THE SANDWORMS OF ARRAKIS COME TO MIDDLE EARTH?

[annathepiper]

I myself was wondering when the orcs managed to send a squadron of worm hunters to Skull Island. But YEAH.

[clauclauclaudia]

It pains me to say so, but while Regis and I heard "wheel worms" and were appropriately outraged, apparently they are "were-worms" and have the tiniest fragment of canon justification (not for their presence at the Battle of the Five Armies, but for existing at all).

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Were-worms

[clauclauclaudia]

PS I *need* a Galadriel icon. Can I share the one you posted with, or should I make a fresh one? :) (I'm fine either way; some people's icons are very much *theirs*.)

[annathepiper]

Oh, by all means, feel free to snurch!

[annathepiper]

Good find! I did catch Gandalf's line calling them "were-worms" the second time through the movie, but I had forgotten that they're even mentioned in Chapter 1.