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The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies - Extended Edition [DVD] [2014]

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  • Actors: Sir Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Martin Freeman
  • Directors: Peter Jackson
  • Producers: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Zane Weiner, Carolynne Cunningham
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian
  • Dubbed: English, French, German, Italian
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 5
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Nov. 2015
  • Run Time: 157 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (184 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00ZX1Y6Y2
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 631 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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The adventures of Bilbo Baggins come to an epic conclusion as The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, is released as an Extended Edition. A production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Pictures (MGM), the extended cut of the final film in The Hobbit Trilogy includes 20 minutes of extra footage and more than 9 hours of bonus features that will complete every Hobbit fan’s collection.

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This for me is the best of the extended versions in The Hobbit trilogy. The original version has plenty of reviews already and of course many people had issues with it - myself included - especially in regard to how it strayed from the books, but this is a review purely on the merits of this extended version.

With issues comparing the original film to the source material aside, I didn't feel the final film in The Hobbit series was the climax I had hoped for when I came out of the cinema - despite there being lots of action, big heroic moments and searing sentimental sequences it felt a little flat and didn't seem to flow particularly well. With these added and extended scenes the final film now feels a lot more cohesive and complete and I actually wanted to watch it again as soon as it finished! A big improvement. The bulk of the extended and new scenes are around the main battle itself and many of them I just can't understand why they were taken out in the first place - there are some really beautifully realised battle sequences that seem to have far more attention to detail, choreography and better polished effects than those in the original cut - in fact, nearly all of the additions in this area were superior in this edition to anything that was in the original and the climax seemed to have more impact and much better editing. The extended battle between the elves and dwarfs is much improved and it was great to see a lot more of Dain and Thranduil leading the fight against the orcs and far more moments of Thorin and our original dwarfs in the main fight (again, why not leave them in the original in the first place!?
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5* for a great end to the trilogy which I thoroughly enjoyed. The extended edition is strange. Firstly on the storyline there are clearly bits I think should have been kept in the cinema release ( no spoilers here) as they add to the narrative flow. There are other extra scenes which I would have continued to leave out as they add interest but not narrative impulse. Fantastic to have now though.The discs themselves are odd in that disc 1 extended finishes with the dwarves reaching Ravenhill to fight the orcs but disc 2 starts back in the halls of gold with Thorin's moment of doubt and revelation. If both extended halves could fit on one disc why bother splitting them in the first place. Have I got a rogue copy? I'd need to buy another to find out. Great watch though and a good prelude to watching the extended Lord of the rings all over again.
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I had reasonable hopes for the extended edition of this film. Previous revisits of Jackson’s Middle Earth films had either fleshed out the tale with some of the less central character and plot developments, or at times even substantially altered the balance and nature of the film. In this case, however, the additions merely extend the mix of good and awful that so mired the theatrical version.

There IS a decent little story hidden away in this bloated and hideously flawed production. That story is centred on the friendship between Bilbo and Thorin, of Thorin’s descent to madness and of Bilbo’s attempts to protect him, all set within the context of a battle that twists and turns as allies and foes make their entrance to the fray.

Substantial chunks of this EE are not at all bad. The build up to the battle works well and (tellingly) is reasonably faithful to the book. The opening sequences of the battle flow much better and with more drama, as do the concluding sequences involving the eagles and Beorn. And every second that involves Martin Freeman is consistently excellent – he deserved to be in a much better adaptation of this classic novel.

Unfortunately, those positive elements are torpedoed below the waterline by some of the worst film making decisions I’ve ever observed. And whilst the EE brings welcome improvements, it also introduces even more of those flaws, pushing the film well beyond breaking point.

Firstly there is the slapstick humour, which the EE lays on like never before. Having done a good job of building up tension and darkness at the start of the battle, Jackson completely destroys it through visual gags that are in much the same vein as clowns throwing custard pies at each other – and with just as little sense of peril.
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Having just watched the extended version of this movie I have to say that not only does it not improve on the original it actually, significantly, detracts from it; and I say that as a fan of all of the extended versions of the LOTR movies. Heck, even the extended version of Desolation of Smaug improved on the theatrical cut...but not so with the BOTFA where most of the added scenes should've remained in the toilet. The vast majority of the additions are just absurd, chance, slapstick antics that really have no place in Middle Earth. They are utterly embarrassing like many of the worst scenes that have made up the Hobbits movies to date (e.g giant hares pulling a sleigh, and a gold molten dwarf) but just taken to the next level of awfulness.

This is visually one hugely ugly movie that genuinely is of video game quality. Honestly, some scenes were like xbox360 cut scenes and the backdrops used throughout this film are extremely distracting. The sets are similalry dreadful, amateurish, badly lit/dressed and give the impression it was made on a shoestring budget ( in actual fact it was all just very rushed as you learn in the DVD extras). The perspectives are often wrong, the colours garish and the physics/movement utterly unrealistic. To make matters worse every scene is packed full of this stuff and there's so little footage that isn't drowned in CGI that when a real, beautiful, natural landscape is revealed (and let's face it that's partly what Middle Earth movies are about) it comes as a breath of fresh air. Thankfully Hobbiton still looks amazing!!

But the problems don't begin and end with the visuals. The set pieces are often just plain stupid and the battle itself is a soulless badly choreographed affair that beggars belief.
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