An Afternoon at the Cinema

I noticed that the final part of the Hobbit trilogy, Battle of the Five Armies, is on over the weekend at the Brook Street Cinema. The first showing was at 4.30pm yesterday. Normally on a Friday afternoon, I go to the laundrette - but why not live dangerously for a change?
The cinema was about two thirds full, mostly older people, but with a few kids. It seemed to be a mainstream audience, whereas at one time a film like this would only have appealed to fantasy fans. Tolkein is for everyone now.
It was fun. I was expecting long drawn out battle scenes - which there were - but they weren't ridiculously over-extended like the sequence where the dwarves are floating down the river in barrels in the last movie. I found myself warming to Thranduil, King of the Wood-elves, which I wasn't expecting, because he's not the most sympathetic of characters, and Thorin's descent into dragon-sickness madness was excellent. You can see why Richard Armitage wanted to do the part.
And there was Billy Connolly on a battle pig.
The Facebook page for the Hay Ho Sunday bus service is saying "Come to Middle Earth in Mid-Wales" and suggesting that film-goers use the Sunday bus to come and see the film.