Posted on 12/22/2014 3:59:00 AM PST by Perdogg
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies opened to a massive $90.6 million in North America, while Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Annie both suffered soft starts as the crucial year-end holidays got underway.
Overseas, the final Hobbit entry also dominated, grossing another $105.5 million for a 12-day international total of $265 million and early world haul of $355.6 million.
Five Armies soared in its five-day domestic debut after earning an A- CinemaScore, including a weekend tally of $56.2 million. Box-office comparisons to the previous Hobbit films aren't exactly parallel as the first two came out on Fridays, but The Desolation of Smaug launched to $73.6 million last year, while An Unexpected Journey opened to $84.6 million in 2012.
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Not to slam the Hobbit series....but it’s a two-star series with some great graphics. I would hope that it all ends at this point.
Casting Jamie Foxx in a musical...yeah that’ll work!
In today’s climate of rising distrust between blacks and every other American ancestral genotype, and considering their actual numbers and proportion of the population, who and how many exactly did the producers of this Africanized Annie think would shell out ten bucks to see it? A film about mythical fair skinned hominids based on Norse and Saxon epics themes wins again.
They've run out of books...
Unless you want to start into The Silmarillian
While there are some great stories in that book, and you could probably mine at least 4-5 really good epic-length movies from it, almost no one would have enough of an understanding of the source material to know what was happening or even why they might want to go see it.
I’d go to see a 3-movie series about Feanor, or the Seige of Gondolin (Balrog Armies!), or the story of Turin Turambar or the assault on Thangorodrim, but most of the movie-going public, even those who turned out for LOTR and Hobbit, wouldn’t.
Exactly. The writing has been tepid at best. But a lot of people like the Hobbit / Middle Earth storyline and the graphics are great.
Agreed. I saw it yesterday and have had my fill of swordplay.
I love the movies and Tolkien, but I abhor the fact that the director got awarded some anti-conservative award for doing “damage” to the Tea Party...boy I hated finding that out.
Yes, I already saw the movie...
I saw it yesterday, too. I liked it, but I thought the first one was better. There was too little character development and too much piercing of flesh, human, elf, dwarven or orc. It was like a slayfest rather than much of a story. I also wondered why Gandalf rode an ordinary horse when he could have whistled up Shadowfax, and why the ordinary horse still looked fresh as a daisy after untold miles at full gallop. I also wondered how they got a horse to tolerate all the foam and plastic to become the elf's elk mount.
Oh, I’d like to see “the Music of the Ainur” that started it all.
Saw it at the big screen iMax over the weekend. Pretty good, but WTF is it with people checking their cell phones during a movie? The guy next to me did it and I poked him in the arm and and asked “What are you? An idiot?”.
I was impressed by the Orks ability to walk everywhere.
I saw it Saturday night. I also thought the first movie was the best. This one dragged on a little too much. Too much fighting and King Thorin Oakenshield blathering on. I think they would have been better making two movies instead of three.
One thing that really bugged me was at the end when the Elf leader(the one that rode the Elk and needed an eyebrow wax) told Legolas to go look for the man called Strider the Ranger.
The problem is did it take him 40-50 years to find him?
When Gandalf returned to the Shire for the ring, Bilbo Baggins is an old man. So, did Legolas spend all this time looking for the “Ranger”. Bad writing.
That one would have to be an “art” film. There’s almost no dramatic tension, and the whole thing could be done in 30-45 minutes. The actualization of Middle Earth, where the Valar enter into the world and build it, and where Morgoth wages his war of corruption against them, would be more impressive and easier to understand (and film).
Like Ray?
The Hobbit predates Shadowfax’s birth by at least 50 years. Bilbo is only 50 here, and was over 100 when Shadowfax was foaled. Shadowfax was intended to be Theoden’s mount.
And I’m pretty sure they just used CGI to overlay Thranduil’s stag on a horse.
Probably WILL NOT happen.
See this article:
Bad, but the worst was Pierce Bronson in Mamma Mia.
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