Finally Watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug And It Does NOT Deserve HATE!? *Reaction* 

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"That's the first time I saw Legolas bleed." Judging by his reaction, that's the first time Legolas has seen Legolas bleed XD.

For me Smaug is by far one of the Greatest Dragons to ever be brought to life on screen

Here's some fun facts about these movies: 1. Peter Jackson wasn't even the original director. He stepped in to save it after the director, Guillermo Del Toro, had to leave the project. Peter also wasn't given NEARLY as much pre production time as he did with LOTR, which he got roughly 3 years for. 2. If you read, pick up, or even SEE the book "The Hobbit" anywhere, it's pretty obvious it can't logically be turned into 3 movies, which Peter Jackson didn't want to do. He wanted to do 1 movie, or 2 at most. WB Studios forced him to do 3, though, meaning he had to start making things up. Tauriel isn't even a real character, Azog shouldn't be here until the very end, Sauron has nothing to do with this, etc. 3.Jackson wasn't given as big of a budget either, so a lot of the scenes were filmed in a green screen room. Gandfal actor Ian McKellan broke down crying on set because he was forced to work in this green prison, and hated it. The crew all threw an appreciation party for him the next day, though!

8:23 "whats it with the LOTR and spiders?" oh Ange, if only you read the Silmarillion, You would meet the colossal and nightmarish answer to that question.

I love how Smaug is basically a modern update on the classic evil dragon from folklore. Hes not just evil for the sake of evil. He’s a narcissistic psychopath (as Peter Jackson described him), and a very polite one at that. Also, loved him on Stephen Colbert!

Benedict Cumberbatch's performance as Smaug is THE reason I checked out this film in the first place That was YEARS ago, and watching this beast again, I am ADDICTED to how charismatic and cunning he is

Once you complete the Hobbit Trilogy, the next fantasy film series to watch is the Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy... notice I only said trilogy.

I'm amused by the fact that you can make a good impression on a dragon, by telling it that you're a barrel expert.

everyone fighting over hobbit being good or bad. Me just loving Bilbo and the dwarves 🙃🥲

When it was the first time you saw Legolas bleed, I think it was the first time Legolas saw Legolas bleed too 😂

"I am fire! I am... DEATH." That effing gave me chills lol

This movie is so good, I’ve been looking forward to your reaction to this movie (literally screamed when I saw u uploaded this video, not joking) because omg it’s so good. I rewatch the hobbit more than the lotr almost entirely because DRAGON, like seriously this is the coolest dragon I’ve seen in any sort of movie or show, idc idc. And then SO many people hate on Kili and Tauriel but I think they’re so cute. 😭 The movies in this trilogy are my comfort movies, they just make me so happy with the characters and the actors and the vibes and the story just UGH I love it so much. 😭💞

The cliffhanger was craaaazy when this movie came out. I was so devastated with anticipation, and we also had to wait for a whole year for the end.

If you’re visiting the Hobbiton movie set near Matamata in New Zealand you can book the ‘evening dinner tour’. You walk through Hobbiton with the last tour of the day by dusk then have a ginormous fantasy/medieval feast inside the ‘Green Dragon Pub’ with ale and cider and afterwards walk though Hobbiton again by starlight. Such a cool experience!!

"You're telling me he's a druid." Delightful!

Smaug his knowledge is vast, he knew exactly about the ring's nickname and addiction in Ron Weasley's dad's pocket.

" I am fire, I am...Death" that has to be one of the most intense lines in this movie

PLEASE watch the extended version of the third one! Is 1000% better then the normal version

When you see the last Hobbit movie, please watch the end credits! Billy Boyd ( Pippin in lotr) has a song called the last goodbye and they play it in the credits, it’s really beautiful❤

This movie has one of the most hated cliffhangers ever hahaha.

Imagine being in the theater with that ending.then having to wait….

I love when people love The Hobbit. I've been a hobbit defender since day one. Just freaking enjoy yourself, nerds.

I found out in April 2013 that I'd had a sister for 23 years I didn't know about. My daddy was a Marine and a mailman, and I guess chicks dig uniforms. Anyway, she loves Lord of the Rings. She's my go-to for book mythology, a personal Silmarillion. We finally got to meet in person at a special IMAX screening of Unexpected Journey before the 12:01am premiere of Smaug. Between that moment in time and Smaug himself and that ending, I can never hate on it. It keeps a special soft spot in my soul. 🐉

I loveeeee the hobbit, definitely doesn’t deserve all the hate it gets

Loved watching this when it first came out. Never really bought into the hate for these movies. Are they as good as LOTR? No. But what movies are? The bar is set SO high. These movies are great in their own right.

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The end of this movie is one of the best movie cliff hangers. Looking forward to you watching the finale soon.

I love your dogs reaction at the end when you were freaking out . He was so confused . I could watch that over and over again

I saw both Desolation of Smaug and Battle of Five Armies in theaters, and I loved them both. Anytime I travel on long flights, I watch The Hobbit and LOTR films. They're my favorite films.

It's hinted that gandalf was forced to separate from the dwarves. The ringwraiths had been sent to hunt for the ring even then.

Omg when Smaug said his final lines, "I am fire, I am death", gave me fucking chills the first time I watched it, and it still does to this day. Benedict did an absolutely phenomenal job as Smaug 👌 I'm a huge sucker for anyone with a great voice

I'll say this for the ending of the "Desolation of Smaug:" That IS one hell of a cliffhanger... lol

Tolkien fans have a love/hate relationship with adaptations of his work. The Peter Jackson Lord Of The Rings is maybe 60-70% of the source material with some pretty significant changes sprinkled in. But it was a great story and fully immersive. Most of us love it! Then they made so much money off the story the studio said we HAVE to do the Hobbit too! PJ didn't want to do them and kinda got sucked into it. He was planning on one move to cover the Hobbit, (It's a fairly small book). But the studios said NO, it has to be 3 movies! In creating a new story that would stretch over 3 movies, many things from the book didn't fit with the new theme and flow. So the fans were expecting ALL of their favorite parts to be in it because they had plenty of time, but what we got was less source material and lots of things that go against Tolkiens writings just so the studios could get a cash grab. If you take the Tolkien out of it, it's a great story though. So we kind of are reluctant, bitter fans. I like it as a fantasy story. But I don't like it as an adaptation of Tolkien.

BTW, you should definitely get the EXTENDED EDITION of the next movie. It is WAY better than the original cut.

I had much more fun watching YOU watch it Ange, than when I originally saw it in the theater! For one thing, there's your cute puppy, and for another there's you loving the barrel chase (which I had hated due to the over the top CGI). I look forward to the 5Armies with you...

I loved the design and actors performance for Smaug.

if you're still tryin to get your LOTR music fix, it's still at radio city music hall today and tomorrow (2/16 and 2/17) with a live orchestra... it's an amazing experience!

I personally think the first Hobbit movie is pretty great, the second one is a lot of fun to watch, and the third has great moments while being a lot more flawed than the other two. That said, the last entry in this trilogy is probably still going to be very enjoyable for people who don't know the book. I just think that it is a bit weird and forced to make a whole third movie of what is like the last 50 pages in the book. It's like a very thinly veiled cash grab and "let's make it a trilogy again" look to me. I saw it in theaters and was a little bit let down storywise, but it was still a fun movie with great visuals and action. It is still a good movie and not as bad an adaptation as others. So I'm looking forward your reaction to the third movie, your videos are always great fun to watch! :)

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Your reaction the ending was everyone’s reaction! It had no right to end where it did

ill keep it short but i wanna make it clear upfront, i love the hobbit films. i believe most of the additions are improvements. however this is my issue with them: the way i see it, the book kinda has 3 acts. the first hobbit film fills the first act perfectly imo. from the unexpected party to out the frying pan and into the fire (the eagles), perfect. where it goes from in the films is act 2. which is from queer lodgings (beorn) to barrels out of bound and the 3rd act is from arriving in laketown to the aftermath of the battle of the five armies. theres an argument to be made that the third act ends with smaug and theres a 4th act that deals with the aftermath and the five armies. i was really disappointed that act 2 in mirkwood was so squashed together to make room for the big cinematic battle in the 3rd film. those chapter in the book are ENCHANTING. heres a list of things that i absolutely adored in the books that were cut entirely from the films. gandalf taking the dwarves 2 by 2 to beorn as to not startle him and bilbo realising the exact same trick was played on him, beorn's gorgeous garden, bilbo hearing the mysterious moonlight meeting of bears under the door and seeing the pawprints the next morning before it's revealed that the beornings (all the bear people) were discussing what to do with the growing goblin and orc problem and whether to help the dwarves more, mirkwoods challenging atmosphere, the critters that seemed to haunt them all along the path and the river that put bombour into a coma when he fell in it, when theyre attacked by the spiders bilbo frees a few dwarves who are too weak to fight off the spiders again so he has them chase his taunting voice into the woods while the strongest dwarves free everyone else. in the films the dwarves leave the path by accident but in the books they run from it when they see the twinkling light of woodelves celebrating the end of summer through to trees, which is how theyre arrested and finally while in the palace bilbo spends days invisibly searching for an escape while stealing tiny rations and living in the shadows. i was really looking forward to all that but it just was not there. not even mentioning how in the desolation of smaug we don't even see the desolation of smaug, in the book they have to travel through a barren landscape filled with chard and haunting ruins, thats literally what the "desolation" is. final negative points: the scene where tauriel rubs the plant on kili makes me extremely uncomfortable, i dont have a problem with the romance as a whole, i get the point that it takes up too much time and i definately think its a crying shame that one of the only women in this film is added to end up as a love interest but asside from that i like it, i like that its cheesy, i like that its a thing. my other point is; whys legolas gotta be such a blue eyed dick in the hobbit? it makes no sense that after 2000 years of living he has a complete 180 positive personality shift in 60 years after meeting some unpleasant dwarves from racist facist asshole to a kinda arogant elf whos willing to learn tolerance. makes no sense, why add him if he's not going to act like himself? all in all, the lord of the rings films was always going to be a rough act to follow. they were lightning in a bottle and i firmly believe no film will ever reach their level. thats why i think the hobbit gets more hate than it deserves. ok now to end on a positive i'll say why i do actually love these films still. the way bard was turned from this grubby grim guy in the books to the literal folk hero he is in the films is fantastic. he has so much character, hes so amazing. similarly thandril is awesome in the films (as are his eyebrows) such a compelling antagonist, speaking of antagonists, thorin's dragon sickness was PERFECTLY executed. and laketown in the films is so real. i actually didn't realise until after i watched the film just how lacking it is in the book. also the barrel scene is fantastic and so fun. and it goes without saying but martin freemans preformance all the way through is just perfect for bilbo. imo the best portrayal of any of the hobbits in any of the films. anyway i should stop there because i think i made my past self a liar for saying "keep it short". tldr the hobbit films are amazing, people just don't like them because they want them to be lotr, a feat that is quite frankly; impossible.

One point: when The Hobbit movies came out they used a new technology for hi-def 64 frames per minute cinematography and it the theaters it looked awful and distracting. That added to having a bad reputation when compared to the cinematic LoTR trilogy look and feel.

Smaug is by far the best of The Hobbit, cheers from Bolivia, I love you

Dog was like you bore me I’m lying down 😂

I’m so glad you’re going to finish these!!

Echoing the extended edition suggestions for the next one! :D I'm so glad you're continuing this!

Yep that ending is such a cliff hanger i remember the audiences reaction in the theater it was just like yours 😅

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31:27 i love how you go into an instant cocaine withdrawal as soon as the movie ended lmao🤣🤣

finally you dont know how long ive been waiting for this

been WAITING for this 😍

At 28:26 Thorin " If this is the end with fire, we should all burn together"... That line is also part of Ed Sheeran- I see fire song's lyrics.. You must listen that song too

I think given a lot of the hate is due to how far it strays from the books and lore that its still warranted regardless of the positive parts of the movie

ayyyy thanks for the upload, Ange

I loved the reaction to Gloin being Gimlis dad

I've been waiting for thisssss 🎉🎉❤

I love that you loved this movie so much!! I was one of those people who thought this trilogy, especially the conclusion quite mid when I first saw them at the theater. As so many years have passed, my appreciation has grown immensely. After watching yours and others' first time reactions, I now feel the Hobbit trilogy is epic and severely underappreciated. 💘

Seeing this in theaters was CRAZY. We had to wait so long for the next one. I personally thought this movie was amazing!!

finnally... thanks hope u see extendend version of the last soon!!

I was wondering when you were gonna watch the next Hobbit movie!

Thank you for continuing this journey.

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Awesome reaction of my favorite The Hobbit movie!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

This one of the first movies I remember seeing in theaters, the feeling in the theatre when it hit the credits is something I’ll never forget. Also having to wait a year to find out what happened was excruciating.

AT LAST! THE HOBBIT❤ IM SO HAPPY FOR THIS🥹🥹

haha, great reaction as always :)

I love your reaction to the cliffhanger ending.

straight fire reaction

Literally my reaction when I went with the fam to see this film in theatres and It ends like that! xD

I always find it funny how you keep relating it to D&D since this story is what spawned D&D

My favorite part about The Desolation of Smaug is that it ends right before any desolation caused by Smaug.

I would love if you continue the Rocky series, loved the first one 😁

Sherlock dragon 😂❤

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Elves exist in the unseen realm as well, as brilliant points of light. He was seeing her in her "astral" form much like Frodo saw Arwen (in the movies) and Glorfindel (in the books) as blazing white angels while they could see into the unseen realm

Beautiful ang ❤

yaaaay love your reaction

What I find interesting, is that they changed the race of Azog and Bolg for the films: in the book Azog was the king goblin (a goblin I'm sure of but I might be wrong on the king part) and Bolg was his son

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That old dworf's grave stone at 21:39 is at Mine's of Moria.. Our fellowship of the rings saw his grave at Lord of the Rings movie..

Doctor Sherlock Strange Smaug.

Love you Ange, thanks for watching these since none of my friends want to watch my favorite movies.

Did you you know that the white bearded Balin is in the Tomb of the Lord of Moria where the Troll Stabs Frodo? He’s Gloin is Gimli’s father Balin is his Cousin.

I had to get my Ange fix in for today. Much better now. I laughed and removed that work scrunch you get right in the middle of your eye browse.

Legolas is not on hobbit book, but they did put him in the movies for connection. He's more aggressive because he's a wood elf, they are like "low key savages" between the elves, as described in the book.

The Hobbit was started as a Children’s Story and it reads that way until you get to the Battle of the Five Armies. The controversy is partly because of Tauriel and the Love Story. When they were filming it in the Chat Rooms I said I didn’t care as long as they didn’t change the ultimate ending. Because the ending was the best part of the book.

Pray you never see a film where they depict Ungoliant, the basically mom of every giant spider in the universe

You and everyone else when the movie ended like that 😂😂😂

Best of the trilogy

ok but imagine being a 13 lil boy when this movie released, watching the end and then being forced to leave the cinema not knowing when the next movie will come out. That cliffhanger killed me

One of my favorite board games was LOTR themed RISK game which came with 'the one ring'! Often played it with my kids!

Yes, Ang, that's how WE felt, knowing we had to wait a YEAR before the third movie! But I'm glad to finally get to watch this with you!

This is exactly how we reacted to the movies end and we had to wait a YEAR AAAAA.

YEY! I love these movies!! And I was the same. I had loved LOTR for 10 years (it's still my favourite thing ever) and getting to come back to that version of middle earth was nothing short of an absolute treat! Do i love absolutely everything about the movies? No...but i think anything small i didn't like was made up for by the fact it was a big Peter Jackson middle earth hug! Seeing Legolas again was an absolute pleasure. He is not in the books, but I'm pretty sure The Hobbit was written before LOTR was fully established with Tolkien..and Thranduil (Legolas' father) is in the book..and he's like 3000 years old it makes absolute sense for him to be there. And honestly..this is gonna come into play more with movie 3 but I'm gonna say it...sure...they added a LOT to these movies...but as someone who as read (and absolutely loves) the book...I think it's highly underestimated how much went into making this work as 3 movies. It is also very clearly now for an audience that has seen The Lord of the Rings movies and they take advantage of that. There are of course book/lore appendices which..the film makers know much better than I do...so incorporating events that happened around that time even if not in the book I think was smart. We as LOTR viewers are familiar with Sauron and the ring. Adding that looming threat helps that connection, gives more weight and reason to the future battle. Characters in the movie actually have..yknow...a personality (looking at Bard and 90% of the dwarves), Azog gives Thorin a deeper arc. The book is purely from Bilbo's POV and it's a gorgeous lovely hilarious book but that just doesn't work as well on screen i think they did great. I don't love the love triangle..i don't particularly love Kili and Tauriel...but Kili having his own arc adds weight to his story and I appreciate the effort of adding a new badass female character where there is so few. Having Smaug and the dwarves have a proper confrontation to add some action and to show off the absolute beauty that is Smaug makes total. Ties the dwarves in a little more and not just Smaug having a tantrum over a cup going missing and going off to burn a town 😂. Anyway I'll stop fawning now. Excited for movie 3!

13:40 I thought the exact same thing when I saw that scene.

I think the theatrical release of the third one definitley has a mid second half but the extended edition doesn't forget the dwarves if you havent watched it yet. That cliffhanger in the cinema tho... definitely gets paid off

FINALLY!!!!!

cant wait for battle of five armies!!

I recommend you to watch the extended version of this !