The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies - Extended Edition [DVD] [2014]

It’s the wrong movie for United States. Wrong region(#2) CANNOT BE PLAYED in U.S. without buying a whole new (any region)DVD playerSo after waiting a full month for delivery from U.K. (Didn’t specify that in amazon when I ordered it) I now can’t play it. I had to order a new DVD player (all region)

I'm very pleased with these disks. Super fast delivery. Amazon said 1 or 2 weeks for the delivery. It arrived in 5 days.

I bought this to replace the one a family member bowered and lost. Great copy. Lots of extras

Really enjoying the extended version. Love all the extra behind the scenes footage.

Awesome package and great quality

Ordered from RAREWAVES-IMPORTS Digital UV code was expired and unusable. Very disappointed.

The movie was great, met all my expectations.

Yes indeed! Got to see all the left out theatre showing scenes in one movie. Not a big fan of the Lord of the Rings but love the Hobbit series

We very much enjoyed the Hobbit movies that we now watched in their extended version editions and with our young daughter. Similar to its predecessors in the trilogy the extended version of the Battle of the Five Armies is highly recommended as it will immerse you deeper into beautiful Middle Earth and its rich lore. And even though some of the critics labelled the theatrical versions of the Hobbit movies too long we loved the extended versions and some of the extra material. We would have gladly taken more of the added scenes.The 20 minutes of added scenes to the Battle of the Five Armies are an improvement. The story line, essentially a stretched-out version of only part of Tolkien’s fairly short children’s book, flows better. And the movie now forms a proper conclusion to a great trilogy. The issue in my view with the theatrical version was that the actual battle of the 5 armies, while spectacular, lasts so long that there was kind of a rushed conclusion to the theatrical version of the movie and therefore to the overall monumental trilogy. I still think that the overall Hobbit movie storyline doesn’t compare well with the gravitas of the Lord of the Ring story line. The Hobbit movies lean even more on action and slapstick. Yet we were thrilled to see the movie again and the extended version in particular.Watching the Battle of the Five Armies on our fairly high-end Oled screen with proper surround sound was a delight; the picture is fantastic and of high quality with the colours looking vibrant and bright. The blu ray does do a lot of justice to all the detail of the movie. The audio is equally great with the dialogue, score, and sound effects very well balanced. Such audio visuals combined into an experience that could hardly be better. The Hobbit visuals are much better than the 1st LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring that we now started to watched again in blu ray following this movie . LOTR looks more blurry and dated, with some scenes clearly relying on 1990’s movie technology. Some of the old LOTR trilogy effects, apart from the Gollum scenes, start to look noticeably off - comparable to the issues that Star Wars A New Hope had vs its later trilogy movies.Where possible we buy the 3D version of movies, I even prefer it over the cinema 3D experience. And the Battle of the Five Armies looks very crisp and immersing in 3D.In the Battle of the Five Armies first deals with the aftermath of Smaug’s awakening and the fate of Laketown. This is followed by Thorin’s struggle with his gold lust and Bilbo trying to manage the situation. In the mean while a familiar lord sends several orc legions to the Lonely Mountain. What follows is a nearly hour-long stunning and spectacular battle.Ultimately Bilbo Baggins’ returns to the Shire while the upsetting funerals of Thorin, Fili and Kili are include. The extra 20 minutes are scattered throughout the movie. The great battle of the five armies in the middle of the film is now ever grander including a chariot scene. There is a lot more Dwarf slapstick (Bifur’s axe head, Bofur mounting a war beast) and lots more orc blood and decapitations. And for example Legolas hanging from a bat while hacking through a line of orcs. The new material shows you Erebor’s crown being placed onto the head of Thorin’s cousin (Billy Connolly-voiced Dain Ironfoot).The 3 discs contains over 10 hours.. 10 hours! of extra’s and the list of included extra material is impressive (if you are into it), like- The Filmmakers Commentary,- New Zealand: Home of Middle-Earth - about the location with cast interviews, the 3rd part- Realms of the Third Age- The People and Denizens of Middle EarthAs it is a lengthy movie we watched it in 3 parts, this us into a similar mode as with a streaming tv series.The set also includes a digital copy. Nice in a sense. But I get very frustrated by the fact that I now have to run 4 different apps from movie studios each filled with their own digital copy format; iTunes, Flixster/Ultraviolet, Googleplay ect. And so far there is no proper way to integrate my collections of digital copies into a single place. Moreover, most will require wifi, which is not always available when travelling. Until this is being addressed these digital copies remain a half-baked freebie in support of self-copies.

'Bilbo' (Martin Freeman) now guardian of the 'Ring' - His Journey Continues -'After by using the 'Ring of Power' to outsmart the Dragon 'Smaug' to help the Dwarfs reclaim Lonely Mountainand indeed the wealth the Dragon had been guarding for many moons......however the -Awakening the Dragon will bring terror on the town of Laketown.Reclaiming 'Lonely Mountain' now no longer being guarded by 'Smaug' will attract the attention of the massivearmies of the 'ORCS' and 'WARGS' - the forces of the 'ELVES' 'MEN OF THE DALE' and 'THE DWARFS' will have to putaside their differences if they are to thwart the advance of the evil-forces that approach.Again the film as with the 'Lord of The Rings' series is blessed with stunning special-effects which grace the amazingbattle scenes in the film.With the additional footage purchasing this, is well worth the expenditure.DISC ONE AND TWO - BLU-RAY 3D - PARTS ONE AND TWO (EXTENDED PRESENTATION)FEATURES -DISC THREE - EXTENDED EDITION plus The Filmakers Commentary includes New Zealand Home of Middle EarthPart 3DISC FOUR - The Appendices part 2 - The Gathering Storm - The Chronicles of the Hobbit - Part 3Learn what it was really like to be on set with stories from cast and crew as they share their most essential,memories and entertaining moments from production, and see stunts and effects in action as they are filmed.DISC FIVE - BLU-RAY - The Appendices part 12 - Here at Journey's EndPlan alongside the filmakers as they create one of the most complex cinematic battles ever filmed -Watch how make-up, hair, prosthetics, costumes and weapons come together to form new characters, and explorekey realms.Then join the filmakers as they bid an emotional farewell to Middle-Earth.* As you can see other than having the additional footage added from the theatrical version totalling in all around 20minutes, there is the added extras as detailed above (around 11 hours of Special-Features) all adding up toward makingthe purchase of 'THE EXTENDED VERSION' worthwhile surely.

I’m a big fan of the LOTR series, from the books to the films, but I was a little disappointed when I first saw this one at the cinema in 3D because it didn’t feel complete.Despite this I still purchased it when it was released. When I noticed this extended version had over 20 minutes extra I took the plunge and purchased the whole set again. The extended battle of the 5 armies extended version is really worth it, the movie feels so much more complete and the 3D is amazing, particularly on a projector.Get it!

First, I would like to say that I love all the books from Tolkien, Lord of the Rings movies and I think that the first two Hobbit movies were on the whole quite good.This final film in the trilogy is still a solid film but I came out of it feeling let down and not thinking wow.The build up to the final battle should have been interesting and the battle in the book was really well written but here it didn't really cone across.Overall still better than a lot if films but not as good as a lot of people make out.

Fantastic movie with the extended parts, still wish some of it was kept in that Peter cut, but you will only know this if you watch the bonus discs... ie Dwalin fight, and the Dwarves stratagem fighting style.Wish he had filmed a little more with Radagast and Beoren at the battle. Again the Extended Hobbit Dvds for me make more of the story, more sense story telling wise, and also add to the tail. Also fantastic how Peter Jacksons mind works with lots of little hidden gems linking in to the Lord of The Rings films (spoiler ..... like Gandalfs Staff)