Well, in an universe with talking dragons, magic rings, evil dark lords, wizards, talking trees and giant eagles, it is not an strech to assume that the statue would throw punches 😂
@@gizmolek83 Smaug jumps into gold but fails Smaug: Aaaaaahhhh IT'S NOT A LIQUID IT'S A GREAT MANY PIECES OF SOLID MATTER THAT FORM A HARD FLOOR LIKE SURFACE Aaaaaahhhh
2:52 That moment when you realise that, since no one can hear him, Smaug is doing the draconic equivalent of giving himself a pep-talk in the mirror. "Nono, those dwarves didn't get the best of me! I am fire! I am death! I am a winner!"
@@brickarmyrobloxalt4235 that's why he told bilbo baggins that he's tempted to let him take it to see the stone destroy thoron on the inside with greed
"K-keep it together Smaug, find your happy place, where no one judges you, or-or tries to steal your treasure, or kill you with pools of molten gold! Yes! You are Fire and Death! Those filthy Dwarves can't keep you down!"
Smaug wasn't distressed about the gold melting onto him and possibly burning him (he's a fire drake, he's completely immune to all forms of heat). He was distressed that something so majestic and shiny would melt infront of his eyes. It'd be like if someone who loves cake seeing their enemy make them the most amazing, huge, delicious looking cake of your life, only to have the entire thing crumble into puddling right infront of you.
They would have needed giant billow fans to cool off the metal and encase and suffocate Smaug, all in a short amount of time. Despite that factor, that would have worked, imo.
They would have needed giant billow fans to cool off the metal and encase and suffocate Smaug, all in a short amount of time. Despite that factor, that would have worked, imo.
What made me extremely confused is how they at a point in previous movies even said that he could withstand the burning conditions of the dwarven forge yet they somehow think that a massive melting golden gummy-dwarf would do anything to Smaug.
Yeah, the plan was quite half-baked, but I guess that can be partly attributed to the fact they made it up on the spot out of desperation, because they had no real plan to get rid of Smaug without Gandalf in the event that Smaug was still alive and woke up. What's scary with that in mind is how overconfident Thorin is in the whole thing - probably a sign of just how far along his dragon-sickness is. :O
Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug was the best thing about this trilogy. Along with, of course, the casting of the White Council (which was unchanged from TLOR).
I appreciate what Peter Jackson did with the time he was given. Add his health problems into the mix and you learn to cut him some slack. These weren't horrible movies, I loved them.
These movies imo. have one defining flaw: someone thought there should be three of them and by the third one ( maybe even the second one ), the ideas had run out and planning wasn’t catching up anymore. I am sure there are excellent fan edits out there that essentially cleaned them up.
The backstory with Thorin's people was the dwarves were THE most skilled blacksmiths in all of middle earth, it got to a point where kings all over hired them richly sums to teach them the ways. Even the lowliest skilled dwarf was superb, hundreds of years passed they amassed their fortune and they pooled it all together under the lonely mountain.
Smaug has to be super strong for him to be able to run out and fly off covered in gold. granted it was molten gold but i would imagine that all that gold would weigh a lot and for him to jump out of what would essential be a giant gold hot tub speaks volumes to his physical strength.
@@amitkenan3878 , he wasn't the smallest of his race, but was small in comparison to the dragons of the first age, the dragons that we know, who are very few and probably the ones with more renown and the ones best known by the people inside the world of Ardar itself, Smaug was quite possibly the strongest and probably the biggest dragon of recent times, or at least would have a similar size to others
Can we just stop and appreciate that the level of CGI artwork they put into Smaug just when he gazes on the statue he’s in a trance by the beauty you can see the same level of amazement as Thorin has looking at gold then his surprise and panic at it falling apart like no no what is happening. He isn’t even worried about it hitting him he’s more worried about his new favorite treasure going away. The CGI, acting, scenes this will always be a reminder that no movie will ever hold a candle to the LOTRs or The Hobbit
How you can say this is good CGI is beyond me. Smaug looks awesome, but the melting gold is absolutely shit. Like really really bad. They ran out of time and money and that's why the gold looks that bad. It's honestly embarrassing..
Apparently the reason why The Hobbit movies sucked is is that they changed the director only a few months before production and called in Jackson, then pressed him to start filming before the alot of the prep was even done. Jackson slept aprox 2-4 hours per day trying to get the movies released according to the studios stimeschedule... LotR movies has pre-production of years... The hobbit didn't.
the reason the movies sucked is because people were expecting another LOTR. but the Hobbit is a children's book. a testwork if you will for one of the most well-crafted fantasy stories ever. the source material is just way too weak to ever compete with the LOTR. people just had the wrong expectations in the first place. now the films have many other flaws undeniably. for the reason you have stated. but even with 10 years of preproduction we would've not gotten anything close to LOTR.
Roman R to be fair the original comment is right. Warner bros. screwed over Peter Jackson and made him do the movie with no script, no story board, hardly anything to work with. He literally had to wing it for the most part to create a small book and force it into a trilogy. For a trilogy that depended on improvising, I'd say it's not bad. It's definitely no LOTR and I feel bad for Jackson because you can see in many behind the scenes videos his heart wasn't totally into the movie because of shitty warner bros.
My biggest complaint with this scene is that the room was huge and the melted statue would maybe be only ankle deep for a dragon that big. He never should've been knocked over let alone submerged.
Gold heavy in liguid for to, the statue ws taller and thicker bigger around then smaug, it was a gold shell filed w hot liqqyid gold, yeah it was a ALOT of gold
No but standing taller than Smaug, and being bigger than him overall, it would at least cause a wave that would knock him over. He wouldnt be submerged, but he would be falling in molten metal.
Have to admit it was a pretty stupid plan, trying to kill a FIRE breathing dragon with melted gold. COME ON! did they seriously think it would kill him let alone hurt him.
in the dragon myth, the dragons are not necessarily immune to fire just because they breath it. the fire is formed after a chemical reaction with air when the dragon exhales a certain gas. this fire is formed outside dragons body(mouth) and it doesnt touch it. in this case the smaug should be dead due to burn or stuck beneath the rapidly cooling metal(gold)
In Dragon Mythology, dragons used magic to breathe fire, and magic to be immune to fire. In Dragon SCIENCE, they use a chemical reaction to breathe fire, but are not immune to fire.
Yeah its almost like the director made a whole bunch of scenes that were designed to be visually appealing to audiences while not really changing any plot from the book.
Mixed though these movies are, this is up there amongst the best movie cliffhangers of all time, particularly as it pertains to second acts within a trilogy. You could hear a pin drop in the theatre when it cut to black after Bilbo’s “What have we done…”
I know it would've been unrealistic, but I wish they would've kept the gold covered on around him. You know how savage that would've look of him flying towards the town covered in gold with a wide shot angle.
When he says "Revenge!?" the first time, I thought he said "It burns!" But all garbled up because of the liquid gold cascading down on him. I know he's a fire drake and is probably immune to being burned by molten gold, but that still has to sting a little especially with that hole in his chest left by the black arrows.
Yeah, right: why is this dwarf standing on this Stone-thingy. Doesn't look like a trap at all. I should wait. Hang on, why is he screaming some kind of signal? I mean, he hates me and said, that he wants revenge. Should I spit some fire on him? Nah, lets wait again. Hm? why do they show me this golden figure. Cant be a trap. They surely are kind, these dwarven-guys. Should I be carefully? No way, this gold is so shiny-cuty-blinky-blinky. I think, I wait again. Waitwaitwait Man, the golden figure melts. What are these long things at my arms. Should I use them? No, walking backwards as slow as possible should be the best plan to me. Man! I am full of hot gold. That makes me so angry. I#d better fly away and leave these dwarfs alone, who mortified me. I AM SMAUG THE SMART AND EGOCENTRIC DRAGON
There was probably a small fortune to be had from the gold droplets falling off of Smaug when he burst out of Erebor. I hope some peasant gathered it all up before the battle and lived like a king afterwards XD
I remember watching the desolation of smaug before the battle of the 5 armies released. I must say, those words said before Smaug is about to attack Laketown were quite ominous.
1:53 The depth of the depression, flooded with gold, is at most a couple of meters, which did not in the least prevent the giant dragon from hiding in it headlong, as if it were a pool as deep as a high-rise building.
It made no sense whatsoever in this scene that Smaug, now knowing the Dwarves are back under the mountain, would fly out over Dale instead of hunting down the dwarves and burning them out. They didn't hurt him at all with the molten gold.
I think it would of been better if Smaug became a good guy. Perhaps a protector of Lake Town and the mountain. Could of shown a clip in the final film where Biblo writes a piece of story he's heard where Smaug had destroyed a orc army protecting Lake Town.
@kindness ARK Well I'm sorry to say this but as cool as it would be to see Smaug defeat an Orc Army it shouldn't happen. It wouldn't be Smaug anymore. Also it wouldn't make any sense at all. He killed many people during his takeover and stole gold only then to turn the other cheek last minute? It would be like Voldemort saying "HAHA JK HARRY POTTER I'M GOOD NOW LOL." See how it would be pointless? It would just take away our version of the awesome yet despicably evil dragon we all know and love.
VianDrow he hates everyone, but so long as you stay clear from his stolen goods or so not have too much gold yourself, you'll be fine (for the most part)
This scene was really the only thing I remember about this entire trilogy... It is funny seeing comments about how he was able to fly after being doused in the gold, like it was gonna instantly solidify once it got on him.
1:01 Great, they cast a Gnome weighing thousands of tons in five minutes, and also cooled it enough to hold its shape, although both of these processes with such a mass would have lasted for weeks.
You do realize real world apllication to fantasy is the most ignorant way to try and dumb things down. Our real world science doesn't always get to apply in somebody's else's fantasy.
Imagine chilling at the side of that mountain, then all of a sudden a massive downpour of gold starts raining down upon you And you be like : is this a dream? Or am I hallucinating Hahaha
The one thing I remember about this was right after this was Ed Sheeran’s “oooooh misty eeeye of the mountain belllooowww” 🤣 it was my first time hearing the song haha!
Gold has a high melting point of 1,064°C (1,947°F). The melting point of gold is higher than most other metals, making it a challenging process to melt. Smaug was really, really tough.
Well, this scene is the embodiment of the "we had no plan at all, like... ZERO idea of what to do once we get there." Don't get me wrong, I love Peter Jackson, and I enjoyed this trilogy as well (mostly the first one), but there are just too many flaws in it and this scene is one of them. I mean... The plan was to take a hobbit because Smaug doesn't know their smell : it was utterly useless, and during the long and also useless pursuit sequence, Smaug passes right above some of them without noticing. The dwarves basicaly don't do a single thing to hurt or kill him efficiently. The whole plan was to get back to Erebor and get rid of Smaug. In the book Smaug went to Laketown immediatly after Bilbo disapeared. I mean : get rid of the useless love triangle cliché, the so-called "politic" message, the entire character of Azog... Really, two movies and a story closer to the book would have been enough, even if we included the necromancer plot.
That's how dragons go for a morning exercise after a refreshing bath with a liquid befitting of them. A little bit of 'I am' chants help with the motivation boost.
@@lex5813 yes he coverd with golden scales even more powerful than smaug scales the golden scales coverd his chest and leggs and his wings bones the necks are golden in color but not armored with scales
Gold is valuable because it's rare and difficult to produce / mine. The amount of gold in Moria makes gold basically worthless... unless of course the dwarfs just keep the gold artificially scarce. Seems like they have a monopoly on it anyways. Poor elves, hobbits and men: Thinking gold is valuable because it's so rare...
Sippenhaft: Fairly infamous in Nazi Germany, the Middle Ages and the OLD Testament of the Bible... Numbers 16 3 They gathered together against Moses and Aaron and told them, "You have appropriated too much for yourselves from the entire congregation, since all of them are holy, and the LORD is among them, too. Why do you exalt yourselves over the LORD's assembly?" (0:27) 8 Moses also told Korah, "Listen now, you descendants of Levi! 9 Is it such an insignificant thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the Israelis to draw you to himself, appointing you to do the work of the tent of the LORD and to stand before the community to minister to them? 10 He brought you near, along with all of your relatives, the descendants of Levi. Are you also seeking the priesthood? (0:04) 20 Then the LORD told Moses and Aaron, 21 "Separate yourselves from among this community, and I'll destroy them in a moment." (2:45) 22 Then they fell on their faces and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will you be angry at the entire congregation on account of one man's sin?" 23 Then the LORD instructed Moses, 24 "Tell the community to move away from where Korah, Dathan, and Abiram are living." 27 So they all moved away from the entire area where Korah, Dathan, and Abiram were living. 31 Just as he finished saying all these things, the ground under them split open. 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, all their households, everyone who was affiliated with Korah, and all of their property. 35 After this, fire came from the LORD and incinerated the 250 men who offered the incense. (2:51) (Balrog - LotR): The dark shadows from the dim past keep reappearing...
I don't like the Hobbit movies at all, but Smaug is one of the best things already done for the Middle Earth universe in live action. You can just feel how imponent he is.
What doesn't make sense is why is Smaug so greedy for wealth in the first place? Like he cannot even spend it lol. What will he just waltz up to a shop and buy a pair of jeans or something??
It's instinctual for dragons, well certain fictional kinds of dragons to horde valuables, gold and gems. It's as normal for them as it is for birds to fly south for the winter.
O U T R A G E D by looking glorious? For what a lovable, evil bastard he is his animation is impeccable, probably the best in the film. Especially when he walks and his little foot moves EXACTLY how you would expect it to
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb, after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. Bilbo and the dwarves have effectively sent a nuke in the form of Smaug towards Lake-town.
Embrace The Sky ? it's just black and white. I can't incorporate myself holding a Spartan Laser while I'm 20 feet in the air thanks to my jetpack blowing covenant aliens apart.
