re: Thoughts on The Hobbit: The Battle of 5 Armies (Spoilers)

Saw this on Saturday, and I thought it was pretty awesome.

Sure, there were some parts that were cringe-worthy, but in a trilogy full of those parts, it didn't bother me as much as in previous installments. And the whole trilogy is much more cartoonish than LotR, so I guess some silliness can and will be present.

Legolas running up the falling stones was not only stupid, but laughably bad. And the Orc leader dude leaping out of the water through the ice was hella strange as well. But whatever.

For reference, I rank LotR as the best/#1 trilogy of all time. I absolutely loved those movies and that whole story. The Hobbit movies, while obviously in the same vein, don't really compare at all for me. They're entertaining enough, and that's about it. But that's coming from someone with literally zero attachment (nostalgic or otherwise) to the source material.

Someone explain something to me though...what were the five armies?

One was the dwarves.
One was the Orcs.
One was the Elves.
One was the humans of that water town destroyed by Smaug (I guess).
Was the last one the dude that arrived late and started dropping bears on everybody? If so, that seems a littel strange to call them an "army."

Anyway, that was sort of confusing to me.