The Reel Rejects - THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:36 Let's do it. All right, let's go. Okay, so we didn't get an Elijah Wood cameo, but a nice little goodbye from Gandalf. Yeah. Dude, we just finished the Middle Earth movies. We did, man. here there's old school animated one that was done prior but other than that I don't think we're going to watch that so I think we're down with our journey right that feels crazy that does feel

Starting point is 00:02:05 crazy because it's such a big epic journey it feels like how I feel when like I don't know you get through a whole season of stranger things or a whole season of a good show and then you like you get sad because you like you know you're going to miss it and like it's kind of that That's, like, how I feel a little bit. I feel like when you're really excited to go to an event, like a friend's wedding or something that you're really looking forward to celebrating, and then it's over and your vacation and it's done. Yeah, and you're like, dang.

Starting point is 00:02:36 Man, that was so beautiful, but I can't believe that it's gone. It's done. Listen, guys, if you like going on this journey with us and you're listening on Apple, Spotify, don't forget, five stars, and also rejectnation shop.com. Benedict Cumberbatch He was the voice of the He was a voice of the dragon

Starting point is 00:02:57 That's awesome Oh it was Aiden Turner is that guy's name I think he was in a CW show of mine All right let's break this down babe Let's let's you want to talk about it Let's talk about it What did you think In terms of just the three Hobbit movies

Starting point is 00:03:14 We know we like the second one better than the first Did it trend in that direction for the third for you Oh no second one would still be top and then probably I don't know maybe three than one maybe one than three two is still at the top for me I really love

Starting point is 00:03:34 love two is my favorite as well too the other ones felt a little more drawn out although I do think that this was a relatively satisfying conclusion other than the fact that I'm sad that we didn't

Starting point is 00:03:50 actually get to get the romance that was kind of promised to us or shown to us, you know, it was, looked like it was going to be a real beautiful love. And, you know, I do appreciate why does it hurt so much. And sometimes you do get stripped from the things that you feel like you've earned. I'm talking about from her perspective, Ontario. You know, she was owed that at that point. Sometimes it just doesn't happen that way, but that was kind of a bummer.

Starting point is 00:04:21 but it was beautiful ending and he did save her and it really really made me appreciate and love leg loss even more that he knew she loved her and even though he loved her he did what was right and that is what true love is is to do what's best for that person

Starting point is 00:04:39 even if it's not beneficial to you totally so yeah I think there are some really great things about this still the same themes friendship greed um you know what uh rising tide lifts all ships yeah um the enemy of your enemy is your friend you know a bunch of things like that that we

Starting point is 00:05:00 saw in the lord of the rings movies that we saw again here which is cool um after all this who's who's the character that you feel most connected to who's the one you like the most um you know i i was just really thinking right now that i really like the moment between bard and alfred when alfred says like what I forget what he delivered to him he said something like why are you still here what do you do this for and bar just like turns around his family's there I really liked that because we gave it all up for what like right said that the people could have were going to listen to you and you gave all that up for what yeah and that made me I mean I really fell in love with bard's character

Starting point is 00:05:41 I think number one he he was just he was just a regular old guy on and they found that the dwarfs found him he's he has a ship he smuggles them in and then sort of gives his life and all of his hope that he has to them and helps him fight and within him we see this very natural leader come to life and then i mean he really is the savior at the end of the day that saves the dragon he's the only one that had the weapon that could actually do it um he just kind of came out of nowhere and i really love him as a character and especially at the end you know that moment with alfred i thought was was really great and i love that we never came back to alfred what i thought was going to happen is that we see alfred that it was going to be poetic where he has all this gold and like he dies right he dies

Starting point is 00:06:32 with a bunch of gold in him but i like kind of that he just like got away with his boobs of gold and he's just who knows what's happened to him karma's going to get him down exactly like but we know that he is sort of the living metaphor for what this movie is, and a lot of it was, is that greed kind of can take over everything to where you no longer actually see what love or kindness or friendship even is. And the people that don't give into that, pure example, Thorin, once he lets go of it, becomes a very great leader and ends up saving a lot of people. And, you know, Bilbo never gave into it and as we saw

Starting point is 00:07:17 a therial Tariel never gave into it which is differently like there's multiple characters that said terrial tarial tarial tariel so I think that you guys we get a pass on that. Yeah like

Starting point is 00:07:31 my point being is that like she elf still had love in her heart but she was never taken over by the greed. It's like that that Alfred guy was a very clear example of what greed does to the people here and what we saw happening but luckily it wasn't

Starting point is 00:07:48 able to fully take over which is good yeah I think that Torreal might have even been my favorite character because she is such a badass fighter and she does what she believes is right but she she's still good to leg loss

Starting point is 00:08:04 she follows her heart she stands up to her lord you know she does a lot of really hard things and she was really really engaging Bard might have been my favorite character for the same reasons that you gave I just think that he was so interesting

Starting point is 00:08:21 and even though he warned them he still fought to save everybody and the power of family absolutely I also loved the legend that they had spoken about that we saw last time that the initial black arrow did pierce the dragon nobody believed it but this

Starting point is 00:08:38 that person did their job his family member and so he was only able to complete the job because his family member had started it all of those years ago. Totally. Because probably one black arrow wouldn't have gone through the scales, but with the one that had already gone through, he was able to shoot in that exact spot, which was the opening for what was the thing that killed the dragon.

Starting point is 00:09:01 So that that was really smart. I was surprised with how early we killed Smilghoff, but really the big through line of the Hobbit was the orcs and a Zog. so we needed to get to our main big bad and Smog even though he's a massive dragon really wasn't our main big bad of the trilogy right so I feel like that was smart to kind of get him out of the way

Starting point is 00:09:26 so then we could focus on the orcs and the battling of all the orcs wow man the dwarves just to serve our love and attention and respect even though we loved Gimley in the Lord of the Rings I didn't know how great the dwarfs were all of them you know like just such a great

Starting point is 00:09:43 group of people who kind of have a bad rap sometimes but really liked them what are some of the wishes that you had like was there anything sometimes people ask do the hobbit movies deserve to exist like did we need to do these uh is there do you have a feeling on that and is there anything you wish that we had seen that we didn't actually get to see hmm um there's not like a whole lot popping up for me right now. What I do think and the reason they do exist is to give us that foundation of Bilbo and why he kind of is the keeper of the ring from sort of almost start to finish and how he gets it from, from Gallum. That's an interesting point. But we did already get there within the first movie. And I guess it just gives us, what I was going to say is that I really

Starting point is 00:10:38 liked that when the dwarves came that Thorne was already out of his thing and then when you see all the dwarves take over what the only the only foundation we had initially was Gimley and we really really liked him and he showed us how strong dwarves were that the biggest like and baddest characters can come in the smallest packages and then when the dwarves reunite in this movie and take down when we see them just like going over all of these dorks it's it's an amazing sight to see. I don't, I mean, it's cool. I understand if there's some people that like

Starting point is 00:11:13 the Lord of the Rings movies are perfect on their own and we did really need the prequel to them. Cool. I think we don't like need them, need them. I'm not like, oh my God, whoo! So glad the Hobbits were here. I don't feel like that, but I would feel, I do feel like that about Lord of the Rings. Like those movies are epic.

Starting point is 00:11:32 I still really like these movies. and the characters that are in it, I think they can just stand alone, but I like that they do loop together. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. Like, for the Lord of the Rings movies, one thing that is for certain, Greg had us watch the theatrical cuts,

Starting point is 00:11:50 which I think was really cool. And, you know, there's a lot of things that go into the decisions that are made here on the channel, which made sense for us to watch those. But I am 100% on my own going to go watch the extended editions because I'm obsessed. with Lord of the Rings and I want to know more and I hear that we get some more character development and some of our questions about their ages and their communities and all this stuff

Starting point is 00:12:15 are answered so I would I definitely want to do that I don't know if there's an extended editions of the Hobbit I don't think so but if there are maybe if there are I'm less interested you know I feel like I got the story I feel like it was already drawn out you're supposed to Lord of the Rings where I was like oh my God there could have been so much more yeah this was like okay that we dragged it a little bit but I'm still glad they existed it almost felt like a nice dessert after we had seen Lord of the Rings like we'd finish this huge meal of Lord of the Rings and it was like I'm not ready to leave the restaurant yet can we have something else and then we had this little ice cream sunday you know like just a little little thing on top so it was nice to

Starting point is 00:12:56 spend more time in Middle Earth it was definitely nice to spend more time with Gandalf and Bilbo Bilbo I just have so much love and respect for yeah yeah that was cool yeah it was cool and I mean I like that you know we got to see Radigas coming in there I like that the eagles always come through at the end they kind of save the day um you know that moment between bilbo and thorin was really it was really heartfelt like that really got me and it really got me especially when he's like the eagles are here. He's like the eagles, the eagles are here.

Starting point is 00:13:33 You know, that sort of sums up in a way like love and power and like hope sort of like the eagles to me in this in this whole thing provide hope and that's what I, you know, what Bilbo in a way was communicating

Starting point is 00:13:51 and hope that Thorne was not dead although he knew but it was like hanging on to that last thread that when you lose someone your first thing is denial um so i just really like that moment i thought that there was a lot of you know still good good writing um but i do think that the second movie was is probably the best out of the hobbits and um better paste i have so many things to share with you now that we can finally do trivia that doesn't um spoil us exactly great okay so here we go um

Starting point is 00:14:28 When the movie was promoted with a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, several fans camped outside the hall the day before the panel in order to get seats. In the middle of the night, the fans were awoken by cast members Lee Pace and Andy Circus, who greeted the waiting fans and delivered autographs and photos for hours. In the end, Pace passed out from exhaustion and shared a mattress with a fan. Oh, my God. That is amazing. That's crazy. Wow. my god oh my god um okay damn somebody just told me i think it was gregg that told me that

Starting point is 00:15:05 or maybe christian somebody said lee paces they're uh possibly up for batman which would be crazy i don't know if what's happened by the time you guys are watching now uh this is the last movie featuring legendary screen actor sir christopher lee sarah on the white to be completed and released before his death on june 7th 2015 at 93 lee was one of the a handful of cast members to star in both Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit Triloges was also the only cast member of either trilogy to have met J.R. Tolkien. Wow. Wow. Cool. That's crazy. Wow. That's wild. For the scenes where Gladriel picks up Gandalf,

Starting point is 00:15:43 a dummy of Sir Ian McKellan was used. This dummy was called Michael Gambon. It was even included with the name on the call sheet as seen in the Appendezus documentary because Gambon and McKellon sometimes get mistaken for one another. That's funny. It's a good dummy. Okay. The elk on which Leipace, Thandriel rides,

Starting point is 00:16:04 is played by a horse named moose. Okay, that's an elk. Okay, yeah, because remember I was like moose and then I said elk? You did. During the confrontation, during Galadriel, Saramon, Aldrin, Radagast,

Starting point is 00:16:16 and Gandalf and Dolgador, Galadriel fights Sauron using Erindel's light. Oh, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, she gives it to Frodo. We see. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She does.

Starting point is 00:16:30 I didn't know it was the same way. That's cool. Leapace's parents visited him on set, and subsequently, Sir Peter Jackson offered them to be extras in the movie. They're given roles as Lake Tower Villagers and filled the scene with Ian McKellon. However, according to Pace, they were cut out of the movie because his father was hamming it up during his scenes. Oh, it's so great. He totally overacted.

Starting point is 00:16:54 Love it. Several cast members kept preempting. props from the movie when shooting wrapped. Martin Freeman kept his sword and prosthetic ears, while Richard Armitage kept his original orchist sword, and Lee Pace kept his elven sword, which he keeps in his umbrella stand. Had to walking into somebody's house.

Starting point is 00:17:14 Awesome. So much stuff about Lee Pace. It's interesting. Okay. Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, co-wrote and performed the song The Last Goodbye for the end credits of the movie. Wow, that's awesome That's really cool

Starting point is 00:17:28 So cool Let's see Legloss is not the book However the book States that all Woodland elves Were present during the battle And as an immortal elf He is most certain to have been near his father

Starting point is 00:17:41 When the events took place Wow so they really built in Legolas's character here I'm glad they did that Because this was just so badass of him Agreed Despite appearing in all three movies Of the trilogy Kate Blanchett

Starting point is 00:17:53 was only on set for how many days of the entire production of all entire production for the trilogy two oh eight okay two i thought three movies i know i thought i thought i was in less days movies i was ready for the shock factor rocks i was going for a shock shocking to me factor oh okay damn uh this is the only movie in the hobbit trilogy as well the lord of the rings trilogy where a leg loss blinks normally. In all the other movies, he only blinks when he is surprised or injured. Oh.

Starting point is 00:18:30 I'm so, there's so many questions about that. Despite playing his father in the trilogy, Lee Pace is two years younger than Orlando Bloom. Sir Ian McKellen and Kate Blanchett are the only actors to appear in all six of the Middle Earth movies.

Starting point is 00:18:48 That's cool. Rightfully so. Stephen Frye left behind a large supply of alcohol when his scenes were wrapped he were given away his gag prizes when filming wrapped oh my god i wonder if he was drunk the whole time i love it billbo finds a handkerchief back at his bag end home in the hobbit an unexpected journey he had forgotten his handkerchief as he hurried out of the home to catch up with the dwarves at the beginning of the adventure oh that's what that yeah i've forgotten that's awesome that's really cool um there's so

Starting point is 00:19:20 many more, obviously. This is one of the biggest franchise, part of one of the biggest franchises of all time. So you guys let us know what's your favorite piece of trivia about The Hobbit in the comments. Tara, any final thoughts about Middle Earth? Oh man, this was such a fun adventure

Starting point is 00:19:35 and really appreciate you guys coming on this journey with us, even though obviously we're not pros in this world. But I really, really enjoyed it, even though I don't know all the stuff and I don't pronounce all the names right. this was still a blast for me.

Starting point is 00:19:52 Even if I'm wrong, a lot of the time. Dude, you're allowed to just be a movie fan who's watching a movie because you like movies. Yeah. That's it. At the end of the day, you know, I feel like movies raise me. They're my heart. I'm here for them. Also for you, for the nice, for the nice, for the good, I see you.

Starting point is 00:20:09 You're so cute. Even if you, uh, however you guys feel, it's always good to be kind. So let us know kindly what's going on with you. And make sure that you check out the other things that we're doing. doing uh depending on when this drops we've got terminated stuff going on we've got our entire conjurverse reactions that are um coming out right now we've also done so many things in the past that you guys can check out including so many horror movies purge friday the thirteenth nightmar and elm street chucky um and so many more so if you love the shejacks and what we've got going on

Starting point is 00:20:41 then check out all that stuff other than that we'll see you for uh the next time a lord of the ring's movies released I the there's a whole Gallum franchise coming out what I know oh my god I don't know when but I think there's a gollum trilogy with Andy circus I'm not kidding I think I heard that you guys let's know okay later rejects

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The Reel Rejects - THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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