I love this movie! FYI, the tights in an egg gag was a reference to L’eggs pantyhose that used to come in a little plastic egg back in the 80s and maybe early 90s. Beyond the jab at the English accent, the structure of this movie is heavily influenced by Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It’s worth a watch for Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham at the very least. I second all the suggestions for watching other Mel Brooks movies. Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles have all been mentioned already. Also watch History of the World Part I. (I have not seen the Hulu series History of the World Part II so I don’t know how that is.)
It was a life changing moment when someone pointed out to me that Gandalf used the same tactic on Beorn that he used at the beginning with Bilbo. (Not exactly the same, but close enough)
Trivia: the Corsair who was killed by Legolas accidentally was actually Peter Jackson. Also there were three eagles that came to rescue. Three because Gandalf wanted to make sure if Gollum survived...
I'm just hopping in to this reaction, but I hope everyone who posts spoilers finds their walkways always littered with legos. (I know the plural has no s, but idc) You should consider getting mods to go through your comments section looking for spoilers.
Well long and longer. Cause if you watch Buffy you might aswell watch Angel along side (interconnected, not a must perse, you can watch em seperate easy but as a react channel you might aswell).
Hard disagree on the extended version take Blake takes here. The extended stuff that was cut is mostly super fun action scenes with loads of gore/insane combos like the barrel scene, or scenes with insanely goated side characters from lord of the rings, that you can never have enough content from. Like Elrond or Galadriel or Saruman. You want more of them? Definitely prefer extended version. So yeah, while overall it stretches the movies, they are still super fun extended scenes.
Yeah the extended scenes show what Gandalf was up to when he just poofed from the company before they entered Mirkwood. Some of it's actually canon in the lore (he was definitely called away to investigate the Necromancer in Dol Guldur to the south) but some specifics like Gandalf going to Rhudaur didn't happen. After their defeat at the Battle of Fornost about 1000 years prior to the events of The Hobbit, the Nazgul fled back to Mordor (they weren't buried in Rhudaur). So a bit of fudging on the part of the movie writers BUT still amazing scenes.
1:01 Benedict Cumberbatch is a MASTER at doing different voices…. If they did any masking on his voice, it was just for the sound effect of being inside a cave. There’s some cool behind-the-scenes video footage that shows how he portrayed Smaug: Instead of just doing the voice in a sound booth, Benedict insisted that he be put in the same type of garb that Andy Sirkis wore to do the Gollum character. He crawled around on the floor, emulating all of Smaug’s physical mannerisms… so then Smaug was animated directly from Benedict’s movements and facial expressions.
✅️ thusly was Named the Shortsword "STING". Lolz, Legolas got "friendzoned" (mellon) by Tauriel. She want that "Deep" dwarf... Smaug just chewing the scene.... and getting embarrassed in an 11 v 1 against the dwarves during the Forge battle. There are quite a few adaptation liberties taken here... pretty, yes, but not from the source material, from the producer and marketing desks instead. 1. The Tauriel x Killi ship. 2. The Barrel rider battle. 3. The forge Battle vs Smaug. 4. The Orc Assassins in Lake Town. 5. A buncha other stuff as padding or focus group "good ideas".
As a Tolkien lore fan and a New Zealander, and also just a good human, I need to say, that, Blake is a whiny catty bitch…. And his girly make up is so bad compared to the others 😂
Might wanna check the Spanish "Rec". One of the best horror movies out there, up there with the amazing 28 days later. Seriously. A must that should be done in way more reaction channels. Such an underrated one!
I stand by the universal right to hate any fictional character you feel like it. Don't let yourself bend under peer pressure! And i look forward to see whether you change your mind as you watch the next movies!
Peter Cushing (Saruman), was, for 20-30 years in the latter part of the 20th Century, THE movie go-to guy to play Dracula. A couple of generations came to know him as the Baddest Baddy of all 🙂
So in the book when Bombur awoke from the enchantment everything that had happened to them all the way to the day they left Bilbos house was completely wiped from his memory.
There are 3 films I would group as a triple bill for viewing along with this one, all body horror/ replacement themed. I think you'd find them interesting: 1978s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams, 1975s The Stepford Wives with Katharine Ross and Paula Prentiss (there is a 2004 version, avoid!) and another alternate film along the same lines 1978s Coma with Genevieve Bujold and Michael Douglas, directed by Michael Crichton.
Still early in the runtime if the reaction mentions it, but the hardest thing to believe about this premise is that the traps are not alien abductions. We don’t just have what the victims say as evidence. These are all heavily investigated crime scenes. So I don’t know how anyone in law enforcement would hear Bobby’s story and not realize that it was never in a police report.
I didn't comment on the first movie but I can't hold it back. Pardon the following rant if walls of opinionated text aren't your thing. I haven't seen these movie since release. To be honest I really don't like what they did with them. For THREE full-length movies the parts of the book they left out and extra stuff they added in really just didn't gel with me. For instance, in the book the journey through Mirkwood takes months, and in these movies we get a X number of seconds cutscene. We could have had more Bilbo/Dwarf interactions that aren't just Thorin being a grumpy-guss. Nobody should feel like "woke propagandists" shoehorned the Kili/Tauriel romance into the movies but at the same time, I think they were a near complete waste of screen time. There is not one single scene her dialogue isn't about Kili. She's like the reverse Bechdel test. In my too-frequently-unhumble opinion, not every Hollywood movie needs a love story embedded in it, but the multiple sets of people/directors/writers behind the production of this troubled trilogy just couldn't resist the idea of "HOT ELF EVANGELINE LILLY", which, I will admit, is quite a sight. I will say that Tolkien himself often wrote about and fussed over elf/human relationships (Beren/Luthien and Aragorn/Arwen) and I think he might have approved.... Maybe. Hopefully. The most egregious problem for me is Bilbo's interactions with Smaug. In the book Bilbo enters the treasure room several times and he plays a poetic cat-and-mouse game with Smaug, as opposed to the "eyecandy ridiculousness" that fills the screen after they have a brief dialogue in these movies. For as AMAZING as a job that Benedict Cumberbatch did as Smaug's voice, I was sorta disappointed. The good parts though: The Gimli easter egg was great. One little detail that really makes me tear up a bit is that I think they gave Balin enough screen time and lines for me to recognize him more than the other dwarves and he just happens to be the occupant of the tomb that the fight in Moria takes place in during the Peter Jackson trilogy. They did not, however, give Ori enough screen time for me to realize (or particularly care...) that he is literally the skeleton that is holding the diary that mentions drums in the deep. To be clear.... I'm not a book purist. I'm just a critical hater on occasion. I went back to watch the 1978 animated film and it was a worthy cleanse.
Did anyone speak to HR about Jake's drip? Cause I feel like someone needs to speak to HR about Jake's drip. Not complaining, just....thinking there might be a problem. If not, then fine. Let it flood. Doesn't bother me. Blake still hasn't told me about his first date during Unexpected Journey. Still waiting to know how it went.
