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Havits: At your requests, I've made the watch alongs 1080p . It was an export time issue, I try to get everything out to you guys as soon as possible so you can enjoy. Especially with the extended content. However, I'm working on trying to have these exports run overnight while I sleep so you guys can enjoy the better quality. I'll add intros and outros If I can, however usually Stef shoots multiple takes of her intros and outros and I have to compile them into one intro/outro which takes time. sometimes I just have to export the watch along to stay on schedule. Also since we split these longer movies into 2 parts, there's an intro and outro for each section which makes it a little more complicated. Rest assured, I will make an effort to give you guys as much uncut extra footage as possible when it makes sense. Best Wishes everyone, and enjoy.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies Full Watch Along

Thank you for being a member of Patreon! Enjoy this watch along version of Stef Solari's Reaction. Watch along means the video is not present, you will need to watch with your own copy of the program. Follow the timer and provided subtitles to sync up with your version. Enjoy!

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Scott S

Thanks for the hard-work Havits!

Hans Engelen

How amazing is it that Christopher Lee (who was getting on in age by the time of these movies) was filmed separately in London (because he couldn't travel). This includes the scene in the first movie in Rivendell and the scene here in this one (actually not sure about this one, maybe someone else knows the details).

Anonymous

Why does your pattern not show video or have sound for it? Other patreons have this which is why I ask.

stefsolari

Havits: Hey Nebidia, Unfortunately that would be illegal, because we'd essentially be pirating the movie for you guys to watch. It's the reason the youtube versions have to be constantly cut and music muting after a certain amount of time. I've personally edited for some big reaction channels in the space and can tell you they do it the same way we are. Any channels that aren't, are very lucky they haven't been reported by anyone. We try to follow the copyright rules according to the DMCA.

Anonymous

Okay understandable- I won’t name names but my other channels I follow do it they just blur out here and there to meet those standards similar to what you do for YouTube only difference is it is full run time.

Sam

Thanks for the upload, would be good if you didn’t blur the subtitles (like the other reaction videos) makes it easier to follow and we can watch even without having the movie on ourselves. Great reaction as always 🙂

Ashtroga

Once again, a very lovely reaction, thank you :) Now that you have seen the movies I hope that you'll one day read the books, very much worth it even after seeing these movies. I read them before I saw them and I remember being just blown away of the depth and the journey that these characters, whom I began to care for so much while reading, went to. Sorry for what is about to be a very lengthy comment, its just that this world is so special and important to me, I read the books at a time when I wasn't doing so good and I found it somehow helpful to be carried away with this amazing world. And it woke an unquenchable thirst for reading, I read like 20-25 brick size book every year and I never seem to get enough, it just is so wonderful to read and create a world and characters in my head based on the writers words. Smaug is a big dragon, largest of the fire drakes in the 3rd age, if I remember correctly Smaug has a wing span of 2 side by side Boeing 747 airplanes in the movies so normal sized arrows wouldn't do much even if hit in the place where he had lost the scale and that is why Bard needed the black arrow to even have a chance. Evil must be rejected, it must be resisted and fought against but victory or defeat in Tolkien's world is not always up to a chance, might, skill, luck or misfortune. Frodo and his quest to destroy the ring is a perfect example of this in many ways; there was no might or power left in Middle-Earth that could have fought directly against Sauron and win, the Gods live in the undying lands and could have defeated him but the Creator did not allow it, He decreed that His creations have free will and they must deal with this threat themselves but He did not abandon Middle-Earth and intervened when He deemed it right, trying to keep balance. Because Bilbo pitied Gollum and Frodo too when he finally met him and because both refused to kill him was Frodo able to finish the quest and like Gandalf said "There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides that of evil." Martin Freeman did such an amazing job as a Bilbo, he really brought him to alive, perfect casting. It is quite a long time since I have read the Hobbit but to my memory this is the Bilbo from the book, perhaps a bit more fleshed out even. What the 5 armies are depends whether one goes by the book or the movie; in the book it is Elves, Men, Dwarves, Goblins (Orcs) and Wargs and the Eagles. In the movie it is Men, Elves, Dwarves, the Orcs of Dol Guldur, and the Orcs of Mount Gundabad. The dragon sickness is a bit of a strange one and I think it comes from our world mythology. A hoard that a dragon has laid long upon has an effect, stronger on some than others, and the effect is greed. Dwarves having problems with being greedy with gold and jewelry to begin with are more vulnerable to it, it is not limited to just Dwarves it does have an effect to everyone, some are just very resilient to it like Bilbo. Actually all of the gold does belong to Thorin, in a way, since he is rightful heir and king of the Durin's folk the mountain and its riches belong to the Dwarves. Thorin did promise part of it to the Men of lake town and to Bilbo but Thorin is right to claim the mountain, how he did it and handle it was not very honorable however. I think because Tolkien did not have a complete vision of the world he was creating we had some strange creatures in the Hobbit. This includes the stone giants and the Wereworms, I don't remember these being mentioned anywhere else in his work but it was cool to see them. Thranduil doesn't want the Arkenstone, he knows he does not have any right to it and were he to claim it then it would start a vicious war between Elves and Dwarves. He is after the White gems of Lasgalen. The necklace was for his wife, who was captured and taken to Angmar and killed there by Orcs. Gandalf visited Bilbo often between the Hobbit and Lotr. Gandalf had taken a liking of Hobbits and visited there to relax and, I think, to keep an eye on Bilbo, he knew of the ring but didn't know what kind of ring it was. Not just to spy on him but worrying it might cause harm to him. The love angle between Tauriel and Kili is something that rubs me the wrong way, it is one my biggest criticisms of these movies. Not that I have anything against love and I don't mind if others like it but this did not happen at all in the book and I think it diminishes the importance of the friendship between Legolas and Gimli, it really was so unheard of that a Dwarf and an Elf became so good friends that Gimli willingly left Middle-Earth to the undying lands, because of their friendship and to see Galadriel one more time. I am hesitating to mention but there is the tv series by Amazon, Rings of Power but I cannot recommend watching it at all. For whatever reason the makers of that show did not respect Tolkien. The characters are wrong, they behave completely differently to what they should, the timeline is extremely compressed, it is modernized to the point where it doesn't even feel like Tolkien anymore. It feels very mediocre general fantasy, it does not respect Tolkien or his core themes and this is the insult that I didn't understand, why make something in Tolkien's name when you don't respect his work at all and I don't care what anyone else says about it but it is important, themes that Tolkien created make his world so special, the classical good vs evil, friendship, love, bravery, sacrifice, death and immortality. It could have been good but the writers inserted themselves and our world into it rather than honor what Tolkien had created.

stefsolari

Havits: Yeah, sorry about that. I didn't realize until after i exported that the subs got dropped on the film. normally the subs get formatted into the black bar in the bottom.

Anonymous

Thank you so much Havits, for all your efforts :)

Anonymous

she didnt read this man. im sorry to say. she saw the length of it or the fact that you commented and clicked the heart button. dont push yourself for these meaningless explanations - theyre for you and the ones that love you