The Hobbit:The Battle of Five Armies.
I don't want to get into a whole debate about this film since I think that has been done to death, let's just say that I enjoyed it. I love the books, and I love Jackson's live action take on Middle Earth so knowing this is the last time it will be seen was kind of sad. Still it was a good ride and I understand people not being happy with the CGI stunts and I would rather have real stunt men too. That being said in this day and age it's hard for me to get mad about them. I mean when the choices are between having a real person risk getting hurt to make the film or just using a computer effect, I can't really say they should put a real person at risk with out feeling bad.
One thing I do think they screwed up with in giving the Archenstone some sort of magical hold on Thorin that he had to fight off like the Ring. In the book it was just simple greed and the fact that in the warrior culture that he came from you don't give up anything that is yours to someone else because that makes you look too weak and Bilbo ended up being the bridge between the warriors culture of the Dwarves and the peaceful town culture of the river people.
Still the rest of the film was good so I can just ignore that.
One not, am I the only one who thinks the MPAA rating system is broken when this film gets a PG13 and not an R rating? I mean I lost count of the number of heads that went flying in this movie and the number of people burned alive. When I was a kid slasher films didn't go this far and some of the gore is on par with Violent Shit, a series that was banned or edited in many countries when I was a kid. Yet movies can still get an R rating just for mentioning sex or having cursing in them. To me that is just messed up and I enjoy the way Peter Jackson has fun with gore, it's the MPAA that screwed up. This is one of the more violent films I have ever seen and I would not watch it in a room with children.
Still as I said I liked it and I did tear up at the end knowing this was the last time I would see Jackson's Middle Earth.
7.8/10