Friday 19 December 2014

Book Advent Calendar Day 19: The Battle of the Five Armies - I wanna go to the movies!

 When Viruses hit:
The nasty cold that hit my children is now hitting my husband and I full on.  It was a day of naps for me, followed by watching Downton Abbey - I've just finished Season 3 this evening.  Then watching some tv with the kids for our nightly cuddle.  I'm fine if I don't move.  I'm so happy most of the shopping is done, and I did the groceries yesterday when I was first starting to not feel well.  I think it will be a quiet weekend, and we are hoping we all get better asap as we have a birthday as well as Christmas next week.  AND, equally important:  so Holly-Anne and I can finally go see The Hobbit:  The Battle of the Five Armies.  I haven't seen it yet and I'm disappointed we have to wait past this weekend!  NOOOOOOO!  So, for tonight, here are some wallpapers to dream over until we can get out to the theatres.   I can't believe I have waited a year to see this movie and now we are so sick we have to put it off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have seen The Battle of the Five Armies, please leave me a comment and let me know if you liked it or not.  But no details!! Even though I have read The Hobbit many times, and The Silmarillion and The Book of Lost Tales many years ago and so have a good idea  what they have changed from or added to creatively outside the books, I still aim to be surprised, delighted, moved, and enthralled when we do get there.  I just want to know if you enjoyed it!!

                                          



3 comments:

Belle Wong said...

My older son saw it last night, and he enjoyed it. I won't tell you what he told me about what happened in it :) Hope you get better soon!

brideofthebookgod said...

We enjoyed it. I'll say more in my review later this weekend. Thorin is absolutely the best thing in it. But at least one of my friends was really disappointed, though that may have been because of unrealistically high expectations :-)

Susan said...

Belle: LOL thank you for not telling me! Glad he enjoyed it :-) I am in the process of losing my voice and have declared a pyjama day for us all, so hope this will help speed our recovery :-)

Bride: You saw it already! sooo jealous!!! lol I'm happy you, and Pat over at There and Back Again saw it already. I so wanted to go today to see it. Thorin, hmm? Interesting. I know what happens in The Hobbit, of course. I can hardly wait! After I see it I'll talk about it so you can come tell me what your friend was so disappointed in it about.