But it's here!!! It's here!! The moment we've been waiting for is here!!!! And I have to say, the wait was worth it. A while ago Monica and I of Spilled Ink wrote a post on her blog with a list of items that had to be included/excluded from this, the third Hobbit movie. And, surprisingly, almost every single one of those bossy demands were met! Many spoilers ahead!! Gandalf wasn't rescued by the Eagles, Kili does die, Bard does kill the dragon, Beorn comes in at the Battle of Five Armies, Thorin dies as well, there were only 5 armies at the battle (even though they kind of screwed up who the armies were, but there were only 5), Gollum doesn't make an appearance, and Peter Jackson apologizes for everything he screwed up in the past!
Actually, I made that last one up. End Spoilers.
But if Peter Jackson had expressed his deepest apologies and said that he hoped this movie made up for what he did with 'The Desolation of Smaug', then I would be satisfied. That's how awesome this movie is. It almost makes up for the second Hobbit movie.
I haven't really been reviewing the movie, have I? I guess I've just been gushing and gushing.
But there's so much to gush about. I really like how Thorin was slowly going crazy (not trusting the other dwarves, becoming obsessed with finding the Arkenstone, etc.), and how that was linked to the 'sickness that lies on all dragon hoards'.
Okay, enough gushing.
I liked how they embellished on the White council driving Sauron out of Dol Guldur. Except for one part, which I'll mention in a second. In the book Gandalf barely mentions it to Bilbo. The movie was very true to the book. I know some people don't really like the side story with Azog, but in the movie it's used as an opportunity to include some legends of Middle Earth that aren't well known.
There really wasn't much about this movie that I didn't like. The one thing that really bugged me, was when Gandalf gets rescued by Saruman, Elrond, and Galadriel, and Galadriel uses her power as an elf and a wielder of one of the elven rings to fight off Sauron, and she turns into like, this evil-looking sorceress lady, kind of like in the scene with the Mirror of Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings? I'm not sure how I feel about that. I mean, why do they portray her like that? I can almost get the scene with the Mirror (that's what she would become anyways if she had the One Ring), but not this instance.
I highly recommend this movie, for lack of better words, let me just say that it was awesome :)
XD Yay, most of our bossy demands have been met! Lizzie is going to review the same movie on Spilled Ink later. She just hasn't gotten around to finishing her review because she had violin hearings at orchestra :P
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