The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies ( Movie )

  Hey hey, finally it's my turn to write a blog. Now, I would discuss about my favourite, which is The Hobbit chapter three, Battle of the Five Armies. I will tell you some details about it

  The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic fantasy adventure film, directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Phillipa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro.  It is the third and final installment in Peter Jackson's three film part adaptation based on the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, following An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Desolation of Smaug(2013), and together they act as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. 

 The Hobbit was originally envisioned as a two-part film, but Jackson confirmed plans for a third film on 30 July 2012, turning his adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy. According to Jackson, the third film would contain the Battle of the Five Armies and make extensive use of the appendices that Tolkien wrote to expand the story of Middle-Earth (published in the back of The Return of the King). Jackson also stated that while the third film will largely make use of footage originally shot for the first and second films, it would require additional filming as well. The third film was titled There And Back Again in August 2012. In April 2014, Jackson changed the title of the film to The Battle of the Five Armies as he thought the new title better suited the situation of the film. He stated on his Facebook page, "There and Back Again felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo's arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film. But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced, after all, Bilbo has already arrived 'there' in the Desolation of Smaug. Shaun Gunner, the chairman of The Tolkien Society, supported the decision: "The Battle of the Five Armies much better captures the focus of the film but also more accurately channels the essence of the story."

  Well since the movie was released last year, I might as well skip the synopsis right? hahaha, anyways, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies grossed a worldwide total of $955.1 million. Calculating in all expenses, Deadline.com estimated that the film made a profit of $103.38 million. Worldwide, it is the second highest-grossing film of 2014 behind Transformers: Age of Extinction and the 28th highest-grossing film of all time. The film failed to earn $1 billion at the box office despite various pundits projecting it to reach that milestone. The Hollywood Reporter said that The Battle of the Five Armies was unlikely to gross $1 billion worldwide due to "plunging exchange rates around the globe" witnessed that year and that Warner Bros. and MGM ultimately would take in nearly $90 million less than expected due to rising dollar and plunging foreign currencies. However, despite this failure, Forbes has declared the trilogy "an unmitigated financial grand-slam for all parties." The film began its international roll-out a week prior to its wide North American release. It opened Wednesday, December 10, 2014 in 11 European markets, earning $11.3 million and December 11, 2014 in 17 additional markets, earning $13.7 million, for a two day total of $26.6 million and topped the charts in each of the territories. Through Sunday, December 14, 2015, it had an opening weekend total of $122.2 million from 37 countries in 15,395 screens topping the box office and outperforming the previous two installments on a local currency and admissions basis. 71% of the total gross ($86.7 million) came from 3D showings. However, the overseas opening weekend was still lower than the openings of An Unexpected Journey ($138 million) and The Desolation of Smaug ($135.4 million) both on a dollar basis. It set a December IMAX opening record with $6.4 million across 160 IMAX screens, previously held by An Unexpected Journey with $5.03 million. The film opened to an additional 59 countries in its second weekend and earned $109 million from 19,315 screens still holding the top spot and fell gradually by 13% as a result of facing minor competitions. In its third weekend the film added a further $89 million abroad, remaining at No. 1. It was in first place at the box office outside North America for four consecutive weekends and five in total.

  Oh and finally from the critical response they get, MTV reported that early reviews for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies were "generally positive" with critics praising the film "for its energy, shorter running time and satisfying closure." According to IBT, reviews for the film were mostly positive, with critics "praising director Peter Jackson's effort at transforming J.R.R Tolkien's fantasy novel into an epic adventure film trilogy." According to CBS News, critics said the film "will satisfy" fans but "otherwise, it may be worth waiting until it's available to rent." The Los Angeles Times said the critical consensus was that the film is "a flawed but fitting finale to the Hobbit trilogy." The review aggregrator  website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 61% approval rating with an average rating of 6.3/10 based on 219 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Though somewhat overwhelmed by its own spectacle, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies ends Peter Jackson's second Middle-earth trilogy on a reasonably satisfying note." The film also holds a Metacritic score of 59 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". In Cinema Score polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale. Scott Foundas of Variety said, "The result is at once the trilogy's most engrossing episode, its most expeditious (at a comparatively lean 144 minutes) and also its darkest both visually and in terms of the forces that stir in the hearts of men, dwarves and orcs alike." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter said, "After six films, 13 years and 1031 minutes of accumulated running time, Peter Jackson has concluded his massively remunerative genuflection at the altar of J.R.R. Tolkien with a film that may be the most purely entertaining of any in the collection." Andrew Pulver of The Guardian said, "This film is a fitting cap to an extended series that, if nothing else, has transformed Tolkien's place in the wider culture." Chris Tilly from IGN Movies said, "There's a little too much padding in the final Hobbit flick, and the best sequence is without doubt the film's first. But the central battle is indeed spectacular, and as 'The Age of Orc' approaches, it rounds out this particular story in stirring and emotional fashion." Russell Baillie of The New Zealand Herald said The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is "something less than the supposed 'defining chapter' of Jackson's time in Middle-earth as it's been billed. But action-wise, it certainly goes out with a very pleasing bang."

love cannot be bought (disagree)

HI! Assalamualaikum and happy independence days for all of Malaysian citizen,

 hope our love for this country never vanish and never disappear from our heart. Talk about love, today I like to write a blog about a question which is, is it true love cannot be bought? Yes you may have a girlfriend or boyfriend though, but that your partner feels that your love cannot be bought? You can ask him or her. If they say ‘yeah love can be bought’ tell your girlfriend or boyfriend that I have same opinion with them. I know everyone will say that true love can’t be bought but what a cliché things was that? we must know that people nowadays are materialistic.     

Even though, money is not everything but we must know that everything in this world use money . Frankly speaking, for the first time I believe that good-looking and luxury can’t be bought a love but a wise man had told me that a women and money can’t be separate .this argument can be proved with his experience as well, it started when he had fall in love with someone, for a moment ,he was happily enjoyed his couple life with her, but when he met her parents and told that he only worked as clerk, permanently, her parents did not permitted it. Beyond his experience, now I believe that everything in this world use money even love can be bought with money.

On the other hand, I also strongly believe that, although you’re gets married with your spouse in the name of love, then you only work as a servant of government or something else, I ask you guys, how long that relationship will be? .For instance, you will have a children and the structure of economy from day to day keep increasing, then you still believe that love can handle that? Love can change your life style? , uh come on, we are not live in Shakespeare imagination, even Romeo and Juliet died at the end of story. For this sake, I rather die in the hail of guns fire than die nothing like this.

 At last but not least, I’m sorry if my words hashed someone who in love or someone who don’t like me, but this is my opinion, if you not like it just walk away and embrace it that love absolutely can be bought. 

Written by fikri_hadi