Here's hoping they're just slow...
 

Good luck, still!

Um, hi everyone. I just saw it 2 days ago. Some random thoughts o' mine:


I liked Bard's children, it was cute how they called him "Da"

I do agree that Smaug was more greedy than arrogant, but at least we still got his "my teeth are swords, my claws are spears, my wings are like a hurricane" line.

The barrel ride....OH GAWDZ the barrel ride, so damn entertaining. I've never seen so many orcs get killed in amusing manners at one time ever before.

Concerning whats his face the Bear-guy.....why was Azog so afraid to approach him, if Azog had killed off the rest of his species like it was nothing?

Also, they did good on the Spiders

I'm kinda liking the "greed driving people to their doom" theme here, for some reason.

On the Lake town....why did we see some dark skinned A-rab peoples living there? The town is obviously not a big center for international trade anymore, so it looks weird.

Oh yeah, and lastly, I liked the Giant Dwarf statue of molten gold thing, even though it didn't do squat to Smaug. I mean, at least it looks like the dwarfs were trying.

Folks' ancestors probably decided it was good a place as any to stay, especially given how hard travel had become by that point. It also still does decent business with the south in the books, so it's still as much a hub as anywhere else.

Besides, Europe's never been as whitewashed as popular history would have us believe.

Oh kay.

I had only known about Moors living in Southern Spain. Plus the ocasional Black person in more northern countries in the 1600s.

Where I'm from, that's a term of endearment
 

Also if you stick black people into Laketown it makes us forget that all the bad humans in the original trilogy were Middle Eastern looking.

Which I mean, that's accurate to the text and, well, the subtext...but still. The less reminders that folks like Tolkein and Robert E. Howard routinely made all the bad guys foreigners is probably for the best.

Benedict Cumberbatch's ‘Smaug’ motion capture wasn’t used in Hobbit film

It's almost like there was an ulterior motive for putting an actor like him in a skintight bodysuit and filming him from multiple angles.

What no one realizes is Cumberbatch routinely does that at his own private residence when no one is around and no cameras are rolling.

Does anyone else find it weird we haven't bothered to update the thread title yet?

God forbid you get a little outlandish with a 500 foot long flying murderlizard
 

Interview with 'Hobbit' effects lead Joe Letteri

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