“A Disaster of an Adaptation” ITF Watch: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014 film) ft. Laura of Why the Book Wins

Luke is mad about this one, folks, calling it “one of the worst adaptations” they have ever covered. Laura from the “Why the Book Wins” podcast and YouTube channel joins the show to talk about this movie she’d never seen in this final installment of Peter Jackson’s overstuffed Hobbit trilogy adapting the book by J.R.R. Tolkien. In episode 245, Luke, James, and Laura wonder why Tauriel doesn’t seem to care about anything but Kili, judge the value of more Lord of the Rings references, learn the tragic backstory of a CGI dwarf, explore the potentials of a rated-R extended edition, and finally cast their votes on which was better: the book or the movies!

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Luke Elliott

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James Bailey

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