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

The movie was enjoyable for what it was, but when it was over I did turn to my wife and say "if they would of just stuck to the got damn book it could have been epic!"

The battle in the book was a lot simpler and took place all in one location with none of the one-on-one fighting that seemed to drag at times. And I almost cried for what they did to Beorn. I mean how great would it have been for the beast to come charging into battle and cut his way all the way to Thorin?!? Was it to much to ask to give Beorn more than just 4 seconds of screen time?

This movie was probably the most poorly edited out of all 6 and I just can't figure out why they made it turn out the way it did. The first half of the movie was solid and the prelude to war was following spot on with the book; and then we see the damn sandworms and the directing and editing just went fricking haywire. Hopefully the extended addition will fill in some of the gaps this movie left.

I agree with most people that it should have been and epic 2 part movie that would follow the book and cut out the bull shite such as the teenage love story and that stupid little count servant of Laketown. How could Jackson let this happen after everything he gave us in the first trilogy? It just doesn't seems possible that he would of continued with some of this unnecessary bull shite, but maybe the sequence with Thorin's gold sickness was really about him and his own vast fortune. That fat/sometimes skinny dirt bag became too greedy and pulled a Star Wars prequel.

I know this sounds stupid, but when I first saw the photos of how the Dwarves of Thorin's company looked back in 2011, I just had this feeling that something wasn't right and I was worried. However the first Hobbit trailer came out with the Misty Mountain song and I thought everything was going to be OK because that whole trailer was just awesome. Then the movie came out, and then the Goblin King showed up, and well you know the rest.