Compared too much

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2015)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a film that I would consider to be very good when simply considered its own film, and I think if more people saw it as such they would likely agree, but as the majority of the people that see it and rate/review it automatically compare it (and the other films in this trilogy) to the Hobbit book by Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings films by Jackson they lower their opinions of it to make it out to be a worse film than it is. I agree that the film isn't the same as the book and that at times that is frustrating, but as well as the bad alterations some of the changes and embellishments within the film are quite good and actually add quite nicely to the story. As for not being as good as the Lord of the Rings films, I again agree, however I don'g think that the Hobbit allows for quite the same level of 'Epic-ness' as those books. In short, if people would simply look past the need to compare the film to other things they may actually be able to enjoy the film rather than just hating it for no real reason.