{"id":10325,"date":"2015-02-20T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:00:47","slug":"the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-impresses-at-imax-despite-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/02\/20\/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-impresses-at-imax-despite-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies<\/em> impresses at IMAX despite flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hobbit<\/em> trilogy has come to an end with The Battle of the Five Armies<\/em>. Director Peter Jackson received a lot of criticism breaking the story into three separate movies, but I have no problem with three three-hour films depicting The Hobbit<\/em>. The movies are visually stunning; watching it on an Imax 3D screen is breathtaking and allows you to feel like you are part of it.<\/p>\n

The Battle of Five Armies<\/em> is essentially a three-hour movie filled with battle scenes, and it lacks a few essential elements to make it a good film. It just starts abruptly with no prologue, for example, and I found myself scrambling to remember where the last one left off.<\/p>\n

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Director Peter Jackson on the set of the latest Hobbit<\/em> movie (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The movie also has an absence of some character development, except the relationship between Thorin and Bilbo. As a viewer I became invested in all the dwarf characters in the previous two films; in this installment they were just characters short of any substance. There was also an unnecessary and confusing scene with Galadriel that ties in to the The Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy, but does not add to this story.<\/p>\n

But The Battle of the Five Armies<\/em> flourishes in the battle scenes. The final battle has orcs, men, elves, and dwarves battling out for the gold using different tactics, weapons, and cultures. I particularly enjoyed the humour between characters used to break up the lengthy battle scenes.<\/p>\n

Overall, in three hours, Jackson concludes the trilogy tying up loose ends and settling scores, utilizing a visually spectacular landscape.<\/p>\n

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies<\/em> plays daily at the IMAX: see imaxvictoria.com\/movie\/the-hobbit-an-imax-3d-experience\/<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hobbit trilogy has come to an end with The Battle of the Five Armies. Director Peter Jackson received a lot of criticism breaking the story into three separate movies, but I have no problem with three three-hour films depicting The Hobbit. The movies are visually stunning; watching it on an Imax 3D screen is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10327,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions\/10327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}