THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG PART 1/2 (EXTENDED) - MOVIE REACTION - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Today we are watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Extended Edition)! The extended editions are long, so I'm splitting this into two parts to show even more of the reaction. Enjoy!
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Gandalf: “If you’re referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved.”
Also Gandalf: *being extremely involved*
All he did was just simply gave him a little nudge out of the door.
But it's true enough that Gandalf was not directly involved in the actual confrontation with Smaug, and left that daunting task to Bilbo and the dwarves themselves. The wizard had even more dangerous business.
@@lifelover515 Except if you started the whole thing, you are more involved than anyone else. sooo...
@@muldoone6920 Yeah that 's not what involved means.
@@sumelar That's the literal definition of involved.
Just so you’re aware, Smaug is the SMALLEST dragon in Middle Earth and the gap in size is substantial.
Your reactions are priceless Addie, you make my day. Love it.
The spiders in Mirkwood are Shelob's offspring.
lost all the dongs of the last movie
Loved the reaction. A lot of the material in The Desolation of Smaug and the Battle of 5 Armies are not in the book but are directly alluded to and mentioned in Tolkien's later writings and the appendixes. Legolas was not in the book, but I've always found it fitting to have him in the movie since he really is Thranduil's son and would have been witness to the events of the Hobbit.
I love Gandalf quietly freaking out as dwarves pour out of the house
As some have said, Smaug is the absolute smallest of all the dragons ever to exist, and yet he is still capable of GREAT destruction. Glaurung, the Father of Dragons who was created by Morgoth in the First Age, was at least 5 times the size and was able to ravage whole regions of Beleriand by himself, and led Morgoth's forces to victory in the Dagor Bragollach (The Battle of Sudden Flame), which marked the end of the Siege of Angband and the beginning of Morgoth's push to crush the Elves and Men of that time.
Ancalagon the Black was the largest of all, and it took a whole host of Manwe's eagles led by Earendil the Mariner to finally take him down. When Earendil cast down the great dragon's body upon the peaks of Thangorodrim (the 3 volcanoes that housed Morgoth's fortress of Angband), his body was so massive that it ruined them.
Smaug is a lightweight compared to his forefathers :P
Not only that, but Eärendil was also receiving a power buff from one of the Silmarils he possessed.
You got most of that right. Ancalagon The Black was the father of all dragons.
King thandrill is one of the elves who fought in the first age, where morogoth (Sauron master) had balrogs riding dragons attack the eleven cities such as grey haven harbor city. This is why eleven eleven hate and fear both balrogs and dragons. If you can remember the scene where Gandalf explains the demon of the Moria and then says it’s name, balrog. You can see legolas actual knew what it was and was scared as he heard to stories of what those demons did to his kind.
Your english is appalling
"Jeez, sorry Legolas, but I don't like your dad"
Yes, elves could be snooty. Tauriel was a sylvan (wood) elf, one of the "unwilling" of long ago. Thranduil (and Legolas) was a "grey" elf, or "elf of the twilight", also called Sindarin elves. Both sylvan and gray elves are considered "dark elves" by the high elves, or "elves of the light"; In the movies, there is only one high elf left in middle earth, Galadriel (there were a couple more in the book). The division of the elves is quite complex and I will not attempt to explain it here; if you are interested, I recommend reading the Silmarillion. Actually, I recommend reading it period.
I will say this: Elrond's ancestry is rather - odd, otherwise he too might be considered a lowly wood elf.
I wouldn't say that (the part about Elrond being a lowly wood elf). I guess you are referring to his anciestry being odd on his mother's side, but on his father's side he is definitely a high elf (his great grandfather was Turgon, king of the most renowned and beloved realm of the Noldor during the first age)
@@patrickexiler9255 I always favored Finrod Felagund, myself, but that does not in any way invalidate what you said. Turgon was indeed one of the greats.
@@servantofmelian9966 The "most renowned and beloved" referred to Gondolin, not to Turgon. The most beloved king of the elves during the first age would have to be Fingolfin, I think.
Shoutout from Sweden! The actor playing Beorn (the guy who can change into a giant bear) is Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt, and Swedish LOTR-fans were obviously quite pumped when we learned he had landed the part. :)
I always find him too skinny in comparison to how I imagined him in the books.
@@DutchDread Sure, I wouldn't say they nailed the character from the book at all. He should have been far more muscled, and the facial hair made him look kinda goofy, and the bear version of him was very cartoony and seemed to lack weight and inertia, and they missed a lot of opportunities. IIRC the part where Beorn follows the group in bear shape (after they leave his house), basically protecting them but also his ponies, wasn't in the movie. I really liked the part where one of them (I think it's Bilbo?) notices the great dark shape tracking them and points it out to Gandalf, and Gandalf immediately tells him to be quiet and look straight ahead, and to pretty much pretend not to see the bear lest to anger him. Also I wanted him to have a much larger impact in The Battle of the Five Armies. In the book it's of course to Bilbo after the fact since he gets knocked out and doesn't witness any of it, but I really wanted to see Beorn destroy several Orc companies, and maybe have a boss fight vs one of the large trolls, and of course they left out the part where he's the one who picks up Thorin when he has fallen, mortally wounded, and carries him to (for a time) relative safety.
But yeah, it was still fun to learn that a Swedish actor would be in the movie. :)
I know The Hobbit isn’t in the same league LOTR but I still love it, mainly I think because I love the lore and the story. I still like to watch this Trilogy as much as I watch LOTR
Hi Addie subbed to your channel after watching your LOTR reactions and have been enjoying your reactions to The Hobbit films, and I know in the film Gloin says that Gimli is his wee lad but in reality Gimli was in his sixties during the events of The Hobbit but Thorin and company thought he was to young to go with them to reclaim Erebor, but he stayed behind even though he was keen to go with them.
A sequence, my second favourite of this movie, but not included in this edit is: " It was at this moment that Bilbo suddenly realized the weak point in his plan. Most likely you saw it some time ago and have been laughing at him, but I don't suppose you would have done half as well in his place..." - The Hobbit
I hadn't watched the Hobbit trilogy until September last year for some reason, but these movies rekindled my love for all things Tolkien. I know a lot of fans don't like them, but I really love them. They're different from the mood of the original trilogy, but so is the book. And Martin Freeman is a FANTASTIC Bilbo.
“It sounds like Sauron, but it’s the Necromancer??”
“Oh, crap!” moment loading…
"One of Nine".. Always get the chill by just thinking about that line from Gandalf.. Amazing addition to the movie
I might have gotten a bit sad when She was like "sorry legolas I don't like your dad"🤣.
Fun fact: legolas and thranduil are sindarian elfs not silvan. That's why they look different from everyone I'm the realm. Also thranduil's wife died protecting legolas that is why he's so cold and wants the gems so bad. They where for her but she never got to wear them.
Addie: “Sorry Legolas but I don’t like your dad”
Me: WHAT?!? I LOVE his dad 😭 (alright fine he can be mean sometimes but still)
Love your reactions Addie, your personality is very charming. #no simp
Thank you for making them extended versions! ;D
They're nowhere near LotR as we know but I like the Hobbit movies well enough. Better than not having more Middle Earth, I guess. This one is definitely my favorite.
12:54 “🤗🤭 Gimli’s just a child” lmao nah, he’s like 79 years old at this time. Still young tho
The au in both Smaug and Sauron is pronounced as in house.
people just had stupidly high expectations - thats the only reason ppl were dissapointed
You said Smaug correctly the first time. :)
12:15 - And nobody ever complained that he wasn't in the book... While everybody hated with all their souls Tauriel... Very equal.
Another delightful reaction and some cute new noises untranslatable into English. That's our Addie. I think Beorn is one of the more intriguing original Tolkien characters and a lot more could have been done with him. I would have like to have seen him trashing more Orcs, a favourite hobby of his.
So much forced run-time in this one 😅
The love triangle, the barrel fight, the dragon chase, Legolas (he's an addition I wouldn't mind if he just wasn't in it sooo much).
We’re glad you’re enjoying the Hobbit. Many LOTR fans don’t find this movie to be of the same status. As for the genre of fantasy movies, we found it to be very interesting in regards to many unanswered questions in LOTR. We’re enjoying your reaction Addie and your excitement to meet new characters as well as older known characters of Middle Earth. Looking forward to your next reaction. Take care and God bless from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Think you forgot Gandalf doesn't know Bilbo has ring until Lord of the Rings.
The elf and dwarf love interest was just a added thing.
He makes reference to it when he and bilbo part at the end of five armies.
Gandalf did know before TLOTR. He noticed Bilbo had the ring and bilbo eventually told him the full story after the battle of 5 armies, he just didn't know which ring it was.
Gandalf new Bilbo had something, maybe a ring. He did not know until later that it was the One Ring.
Nice to see the hobbit reaction
It doesnt make sense that he could still understand the spider after taking off the Ring.
Sad, always upload your videos 32 seconds before I have to go to work. Watching tonight!
In the book the spiders were just talking spiders - some of them are capable of speech because the giant spiders of Middle-Earth have supernatural origin, they descent from Ungoliant who was a cosmic horror that almost devoured literal Satan. Tolkien's mythological lore is wild.
Spiders (and cats, actually) were some of Tolkien’s least favorite critters. Looking at how powerful Ungoliant was, we shouldn’t be surprised…
i don't care what people say, the hobbit movies are surely not at the level of the ot, but the hand, vision and inspiration of peter jackson and his team, art designers at the top, are there. there are limits in the execution, but atmospheres and design are amazing. aniway did you enjoy this movie more than the previous? btw i loved your reaction❤
People also need to remember that the Hobbit was one book split into 3 films, whereas the LOTR was 3 books into 3 films, another thing to remember is the Hobbit book was originally written for kids (so it's a kids book) whereas the LOTR is a lot more serious in its nature and based on Tolkien's experiences of WW1 with the target audience being adults, I personally thing this is why the LOTR is liked more by people.
@@finbenton6376 agree with all points. I see people going mad with the relationship between kili and tauriel, complaining that she is a pointless character, and again seeing persons pointing out these movies are too stretched for a book to short as the hobbit, and many other things, that are objectively true, but i don't think the flaws of the movies are too bad to best the beauty of the soundtrack, the fun of the action (not always of course) the good acting of the main actors, a fair and well done fan service (with any exceptions) and the beautiful concepts and artworks for costumes, locations and creatures. I would for first admit that this movies have strong screenplay issues, but as a work of art except the mediocre cgi stuff are amazing and worthy of respect and love.
@@thelibrarian6976 Yeah I agree, I enjoy the films however expecting one book to be better than 3 books that as films won 17 Oscars in total his just stupid. My guess is Peter Jackson wanted the Hobbit to be 2 films, but was maybe pressured into making a trilogy again so he had to drag things out a bit and add new characters.
@@finbenton6376 absolutely, the influence of the production is clear and the forced duration due commercial purpose are undeniable
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Excellent reaction. Greetings from Colombia!
10:02 It's things like this that get lost in this movie because it's so big.
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The reason why Gandalf told Thrain thorins father to take back the moutain and why he was so pushy trying to get thorin to do the same is because Smaug needs to die because if he doesn’t Souron would have got to the dragon and made a deal with him to help him rule middle earth. Smaug would have burned down everything and been a very unstoppable force that nothing could stand against besides him and the other wizards and the white council( the white council is Gandalf, Saraman, Galadriel, Lord Elrond and possible radagast and a few others).
Radagast is not on the white council, the 1 person you missed was ciridan, the elven lord who gave Gandalf 1 of the elven rings of power. Ciridan is the lord of grey haven
Love your videos even if I don't love these movies. Adding Legolas and the Gimli name drop felt like pretty cheap fan service to me.
Great reaction. Your jump scares are the best in the business lol bless you.
In the books, if a person put on the one ring, that person could understand the language of any evil being. That's why Bilbo was able to understand what the spiders were saying (although it this film, they messed up and he could still understand them even when it fell off.)
14:28 this is also similar to what Gimli said to Haldir when he was in Lothlórien.
Addie: "Hmm...his leg. I bet an elf could help with that."
Me: Good guess, Abbie! You should announce, "Spoiler Alert!" when you're about to guess something. 😄 Your Hobbit reactions are great! Keep up the good work. 👍
i only have minor complaints but they added some things that did make these movies very good also so its a bit mixed - ofc its not fair to compair this to Lord of the Rings greatest trilogy of all time
Now imagine us when we watched lotr in the 2000's then 10 years later seing the cameo of frodo in bilbo movie. That was so good!
sorry desolation Smaug okay bye bye 👍♥️👌😷😂😘🙏
I love your reactions. This is going to be fun.
There is a special kind of beauty only a redhead radiates. Definitely my new favorite reaction channel. Keep'em coming.
His name is Bard the bow man played by Luke Evans
If I'm in the Barrel I stink like fish
Adore your movie reactions, Desolation of Smaug is thrilling sequel that jumps into the action faster than An Unexpected journey. Tauriel is a character I wish was in the book was so cool. Your gonna love all the Smaug scenes in the climax!
@@mikelarsen5836 There were no female characters in the book which is already a flaw with the book by including more female characters like Tauriel that's one way the movies improved over the source material. She is needed as she helps Legolas stand up to his controlling father and see it's okay for Dwarves and Elves to be friends!
So much fun watching your reactions! I have seen the movies a few times, but these videos remember me of the first time I watched them Its refreshing!
Jump scares❤❤❤❤❤❤
One problem with the movies is that Thorin and Bilbo were reconciled in each movie. In the book, the reconciliation did not occur until Thorin was dying at the end.
Addie: "It seemed it was Sauron, like summoning them, but I guess it's the Necromancer, whoever this is", lol
Привет.) Смотрю реакции твои на фильмы. И в основном не понимаю слов.(хотя некоторые понимаю) Но язык эмоций, он везде одинаков. И смотрю потому что реакция эмоциональная очень нравится)
If you want to know what and why went wrong with this trilogy I encourage you to watch 3 parts of Hobbit autopsy by Lindsay Ellis on UA-cam (not a promotion).
Hey! Addie when do you plan on reading the books? No rush just curious.
The reason most people were questioning this series is because so much of it didn't exist in the book at all and to many things were left out.
It was a single book and they streched it into 3 movies,
Nobody has any problem with the acting or cinematography or many other things that made it eye candy.
Just sad they added their own story line.
Thranduils home was a recreation of Menegroth of Doriath but Lothlorien was the one that emulated the true energy of Doriath thanks to Galadriel/Nerwen/Alatariel/Artanis.
Those fish in the barrels were 100% real and the actors really were getting buried in them
So Beorn is basically a dire version of a werebear?
You mentioned as they entered Brie it was the same scene as the Lord of the Rings, but you did not mention or maybe did not know you watched Peter Jackson doing the same cameo as the carrot eating man.
lord of the rings and now the hobbit? You must be an editing master by now!
I hope , he see ..... "WONDERLAND INDONESIA" ....
You so pretty when there's jump scared
Barb is my favorite character in this series 👍
Looking forward to part 2!
Disturbing fact: Bolg, the orc that Azog sent in his place to hunt Thorin's groups is his own son. That's right, AZOG REPRODUCED!!!😱
And Azog is actually dead at this point in the books lol. I don't get why they didn't just use Bolg to start with
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18:44 "Very daaangerooous."
What a perfect beauty
WE Love you Addie🥰
Gimli was not aloud to go on this quest because he was considered too young at 70
♥ "That's My wee lad Gimli" ♥
“Tell your master that I am come,” he repeated in the same voice as before. Ransom looked at him without the flicker of an eyelid.
“Do you really wish,” he said at last, “that I call upon my Masters?” “A daw that lives in a hermit’s cell has learned before now to chatter book-Latin,” said the other. “Let us hear your calling, mannikin” (homuncio). “I must use another language for it,” said Ransom. “A daw could have Greek also in its bill.” “It is not Greek.” “Let us hear your Hebrew, then.” “It is not Hebrew.”
“Nay,” answered the other with something like a chuckle, a chuckle deep hidden in his enormous chest and betrayed only by a slight movement of his shoulders, “if you come to the gabble of barbarians, it will go hard but I shall out-chatter you. Here is excellent sport.” “It may happen to seem to you the speech of barbarians,” said Ransom, “for it is long since it has been heard. Not even in Numinor was it heard in the streets.”
The Stranger gave no start and his face remained as quiet as before, if it did not become quieter. But he spoke with a new interest. “Your Masters let you play with dangerous toys,” he said. “Tell me, slave, what is Numinor?” “The true West,” said Ransom.
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"The Stranger Ransom is speaking with is Merlin.
I love how when you watch this, you can see why its so special that Gimli and Legolus become friends.
Your smile melts my heart
12:18 You can see when this movie became 10× better for its audience!
I was taken aghast at the blatant MT. Just horrific to these ears😉
I prefer the Rankin Bass version.
Merci.
The barrel rapids is probably one of my favorite scenes along with Beorn and Legolas meeting Gimli's father, Gloin! I remember my uncle and I were so excited when we first heard "That's my wee lad, Gimli!" in theaters! I look forward with part two of this reaction! :D
My brother and I were looking at each other during the barrel scene like "what nonsense is this?"
@@shinrapresident7010 I thought the barrel scene was cool... I still think it's cool. I would probably want to do something like that if I could find a barrel and a river rapids somewhere too. It's like Schlitterbahn except it's not.
@@shinrapresident7010 It's a movie based on a childrens book. The scene is a bit dorky for sure but fun!
@@shinrapresident7010 No, that was just awful.
@@SomethingNowhereMan you will die if you do something like this. It's called physics. Something The Hobbit films have never heard of.
I enjoyed this movie. A lot.
The man with the eye patch is Steven Colbert
I believe that having Tauriel fall in love with Kili was a mistake. If anyone, it should have been Legolas.
Oh, I hate the barrel scene so much.
I agree it goes over the top. They could have kept like half(the not ridiculous parts) and it would have been a good scene
Yes, they put Legolas in the movie, and no, he shouldn't be because Legolas does not appear in the book.
Would be even more weird if he wasn't there at all.
@@carven1 No that wouldn't have been weird at all since he's not part of the source material.
@@HH-hd7nd He's important due to the line he is in, Oropher and his kin were very imporant. So It'd make sense that he's around to some degree. again, it'd be weird if he was unborn when he was literally becoming fully matured as an elf albeit still a bit young. but most in the first and second ages didn't get to live that long before getting turned into orcs by melkor or simply dying in battles with balrogs, orcs, and maiar that went bad during the greater wars between the valar etc.
@@Makkaru112 No one said he's not born yet - he simply never met the dwarves and Bilbo. Just like thousands of other elves living in the Wood Elf realm.
Morgoth did not turn any elves into orcs in the second age btw - Morgoth was not present anymore in the second age, and the emergance of the orcs was one event in the early history of the elves, not an ongoing process. It was a schism that happened - the elves who followed the Valar remained elves, the ones who feared the Valar and remained in their original home became orcs.
There's no real difference between Maiar and Balrogs - Balrogs are Maiar.
Very few Maiar where turned to Morgoth's/Saurons side after the creation of the world - in fact there's only one that turned later and where we know that for certain: Saruman.
Most elves that appear by name in either the Lord of the Rings or in the Hobbit where born in the first age btw and are many thousand years old, with Legolas and Arwen actually being the youngest elves that make an appearance (both where born at the beginning of the third age and are therefore both slightly below 3000 years old; according to the movie guide information Legolas is 2931 and Arwen is 2901).
I can't stand these movies, but I love your reactions... so here I am. :)
11:11 Yet he takes the ring off and still understands the spiders. Nice idea Jackson, but you still stuffed it up. 🤦♂
Theatrical release, what’s that?
No, Unexpected Journey and Battle of Five Armies extended editions are cringe....
Battle of five armies extended edition is a must for me, but it's this film I find that drags in extended form
The cinematic are already too long and boring for me. Extended versions, no thank you.
@@CJR-wv8kc a huge portion of the movie was NOT in the books but some things they added in only pointed to the lore from the silmarillion and the like such as Fall Of Gondolin and Children Of Hurin and even Beren And Luthien. espcially the bit where Nerwen/Galadriel rescues Gandalf and battles Sauron which is akin to her brother Finrod Felagund doing similar things protecting Beren and so on.