THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (2013) MOVIE REACTION - FIRST TIME WATCHING - REVIEW

Welcome to our first-time watching as we react to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013).
We finally got our first look at a dragon in Middle-earth! Smaug voiced by the one and only Benedict Cumberbatch who did an excellent job with his performance.
Directed by Peter Jackson, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" follows Bilbo Baggins and the Company of Dwarves as they continue their perilous journey to reclaim Erebor. Along the way, they encounter treacherous enemies, including the fearsome dragon Smaug, who guards the Lonely Mountain with ferocity.
We got to see quite a few characters from "The Lord of the Rings" make an appearance here. From Legolas to Sauron there were definitely quite a few surprises we were not expecting
We hope that you enjoy our reactions, commentary and discussions as we delve into the film's themes and how it impacted the fantasy genre. How it's connection to the incredible "Lord of the Rings" trilogy made this such an enjoyable experience and how they continue to show the pure genius and innovation of J.R.R Tolkien who singlehandedly changed the landscape of what fantasy was as a genre and what could be achieved.
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[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Hey all of you wonderful people! Thank you for watching this with us and for all of your support. You guys have been nothing but the best ❤ We finally got to see Smaug and it was awesome! If you enjoyed the reaction leave a like and if you're feeling extra generous today subscribe! If you'd like to support the channel and gain access to the full length reaction become a member of our patreon bit.ly/3ICVrJ6 Watch our reactions early! kzbin.info/door/iCUz1bHid4H9mu6g2IOjXgjoin

[@daveking9393]

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[@Mokkori_Sensei]

Hello i hop× you've been well both of you i subscribed since your vid about lor and i must say i'm addicted to your channel now and i've been expecting this one

[@mikemartin8461]

Ya'll really are doing amazing job it really shows how many great fans of ya'll really has when I start watching this I hit the like button at 863 like I made 864 and by the end of the video it's up pass 1'200 likes truly amazing

[@mikemartin8461]

At the end of the franchise would ya'll let me or should I say us which movie was the best one out of the three?

[@HorrorBr1nger]

Guys, i wonder: will you be interested in watching "The Cell" (2000) movie?

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

Whoever had the idea of Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug needs a medal right this second.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We need to see him in more of these roles! His voice is perfect for it!

[@queengoddessb69]

There was a great meme when the movie came out with a picture of Smaug on his treasure. It talked about the cost of the movie. It said the budget was so high because of Benedict. Paying the wizard to transform him into a dragon was cheap, but they blew most of the budget bribing him to accept being turned back into a human.

[@GMDTurbo]

The behind the scenes is even better because it’s just Benedict crawling around in a motion capture suit lmfao

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

@@queengoddessb69 Pfffff stop, that killed me!

[@Zankaroo]

I can't remember 100% but I think it was Cumberbatch himself. He really wanted the role and was very ecstatic to get it as he is a big fan.

[@Barovian20]

"You look like a hair commercial..." "Easy, breezy, beautiful... Oakenshield."

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We NEED his haircare routine!!

[@Yakandbleezies]

This is the greatest thing ever. Well done!

[@calipidgious]

This legit made me lol

[@Barovian20]

@@OfficialMediaKnights All natural shirepoo followed by Galadriel Fructis conditioner.

[@seregrian5675]

"Maybe he's born with it... maybe it's Erebor!"

[@TheGRAclan]

Those spiders are actually the children of shelob. Shelob herself is actually the child of an ungodly powerful being called Ungoliant. They seem to become less powerful with each generation.

[@septegram]

I always remember the line from LOTR: "last child of Ungoliant, sent to trouble an unhappy world."

[@huntehrerrhr6581]

@@septegram its so funny how op ungoliant was, if she was alive she would eat sauron in like 2 seconds and inhale smaug like an animal cracker

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

Even Morgoth feared Ungoliant

[@PyrusFlameborn]

Everything becomes less powerful as the generations pass. It's a major theme of Tolkien. Sauron isn't as powerful as Morgoth, the spiders grow weaker and smaller, magic leaves Middle-Earth, the Elves leave as well. With every age power and magic diminishes and in the end there will only be the mundane world of Man

[@huntehrerrhr6581]

@@PyrusFlameborn yeah I rmbr somewhere that Tolkien had an idea of middle earth being the far FAR distant history of mankind today. I also saw something about a book following lotr where there were only humans in the 4th age but he ditched it cuz humans suck

[@rptrrwr]

From what i remember, the "jewels" thranduil wants from thorin was actually something thranduil sought after the death of his wife. the dwarves had them when smaug attacked.

[@astrophile1188]

Yes. If not wrong, the "jewels" are a gift from Thranduil for his wife, before she died by Angmar or orcs. The dwarves had them and refused to give it to Thranduil. Some say it's Silmarillion, the jewel that start the feud between elves and dwarves, but I don't think it is.

[@logankowatsch9669]

When Bilbo said that he found his courage instead of telling Gandalf he found the ring it was the very start of the ring starting to corrupt him

[@pickleboy6059]

@@astrophile1188pretty sure it was just mithril gems arranged into a necklace

[@joelspaulding5964]

​@@logankowatsch9669Not necessarily. There was nothing corrupt in him chosing to keep it a secret. He may have simply felt the time was not right. Nothing need be corrupt for this ti happen as it did.

[@Taewills]

@@pickleboy6059 The White Gems of Lasgalen aren’t mithril

[@Xenoprism]

Fun fact: Smaug loves gloating and enjoys the flattery Bilbo gives him in part because he's a relatively small and weak dragon. In the LOTR world, there's another dragon (drake?) called Glaurung, who is probably two to five times the size of Smaug. Not to mention Ancalagon the Black, whose size was such that he destroyed three giant active volcanoes called the towers of Thangorodrim simply by falling on them. (He was not necessarily larger than the towers, though) The towers of Thangorodrim are estimated to be approximately 35,000 feet tall, and 5 miles wide, according Karen Wynn Fonstad's "The Atlas of Middle-Earth", if her illustrations are drawn to scale.

[@katiemartin487]

Fun fact: Benedict Cumberbatch not only did the voice work for Smaug but he also did the motion capture for him as well. There’s literally footage of him in a mocap suit doing all of the movements, even the face movements too. It’s actually really funny to watch, it’s all on KZbin!! ❤ I can’t wait to see your reaction to Five Armies next, it’s my favourite one out of the series. 😁

[@GoatLuffy_97]

The Hobbit Trilogy has its moments of brilliance, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug is certainly one of them.

[@pilotoreplicante]

The first movie, the smaug sequence, the misty mountain song and the ending song of the third movie are the only things i like about this trilogy. Btw in the first movie i could go without all the white super villan arc and the huarg sequence. The rest of the trilogy for me is trash.

[@patrickwoodlands4086]

@@pilotoreplicante Every Dol Goldur scene is amazing what are you talking about.

[@skychamber_studios]

@@patrickwoodlands4086 true, but in the theatrical version. Removing Thrain was the smartest move, but I agree, those sequences are phenomenal.

[@AlexM-Kaiser]

​@@pilotoreplicante funny thing for me is, is that in my opinion the first movie is the weakest of the three, also I feel like the only person who actually really enjoys all three movies

[@markdanielsampilo9302]

Benedict cumberbatch voicing smaug is so terrifying😂

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Omg it was terrifying but also so satisfying for some reason 😂

[@jebVlogs556]

@@OfficialMediaKnights with alot of autoning in the throat and neck lol 😉🖐🙄😉🖐🙄😉✌☝️

[@danielshowell9512]

Don't forget he is also a VA of the Necromancer

[@fabrislemos]

@@OfficialMediaKnightsif you liked him as Smaug, check out the BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. He plays the Angel Islington perfectly in that.

[@TheOli4D]

So "terrifying" I litterly had trouble not falling asleep in the cinema 😒

[@lorddanielthesecond73]

I've very rarely seen ANYONE pick up on the fact that Bilbo can understand the spiders while wearing the Ring. Because that's exactly how it works in the books.

[@benz3685]

You should have been in the theaters when this movie ended and we all knew we had to wait another year to see what was going to happen next. The collective, “NOOO!!” was impressive 😅

[@joshuacoldwater]

Legolas wasn’t present in the book, BUT, I love that they brought him in to the story. I also LOVE when he meets Gimli’s dad. 😂

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

It was so cool getting to see him once again! Also that little moment with Gimli's dad was kinda heartwarming knowing what's gonna go down between Legolas and Gimli.

[@joshuacoldwater]

@@OfficialMediaKnightsA lot of people don’t know this, but after “The Lord of The Rings” in his other writings Tolkien mentions that Legolas eventually builds a ship to head to the undying lands. He invited Gimli to join him, he was the first and only dwarf ever to do so. Talk about character growth.

[@kellypedersen6590]

Legolas is described in the Fellowship book as a Wood Elf like Thranduil, but I don't think he is ever described as Thranduil's son- interesting take for the movies to make them related.

[@cmdrbrantford888]

@@kellypedersen6590 Actually, it IS canon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legolas#:~:text=Legolas%20is%20the%20son%20of,Wood-elves"%20of%20Mirkwood.

[@kellypedersen6590]

@@cmdrbrantford888 - nice. Thank you. (I wasn't 100% sure).

[@n3onstars]

I love when they have the Elves' light of the Eldar visible to others (like when Frodo saw Arwen, or Elrond, for the first time). It's so cool. It really shows how unearthly they are. Also I love Smaug, he's so fricken cool

[@seosamh.forbes]

9:55 I remember a lot of people were upset because the Necromancer was not in The Hobbit book, Gandalf would regularly just dip out on the Company with no real explanation. It was revealed though in later writings that when he dipped out, it was because he was investigating the Necromancer. 22:40 "îsh kakhfê ai’d dur-rugnul!” there's some complexities in the literal but it roughly translates to "I poop on elf heads"

[@InfantryWife85]

Funny thing, he actually was in the original version of the Hobbit that Tolkien wrote. Supposedly his editors had Tolkien take him out because it was, of course, supposed to be a children's book and the Necromancer would be "too frightening"

[@Supadrumma441]

"Ishkh khakfe andu null" The dwarvish insult is quite difficult to translate as The Professor didn't fully complete Khuzdul, the dwarvish language. Closest translation is "to pour my excrement upon your head" hahaha. I love how childish the dorfs can be at times.

[@seregrian5675]

Compare that with what Gimli says to the Elves in Lothlorien: "Ishkhaqwi ai durugnul!" (I spit upon your grave!)

[@UmbralDawn]

I don’t care what anybody says, I absolutely love this movie. I think it’s such a fun high fantasy adventure movie. And Benedict cumberbatch as Smaug and sauron was amazing

[@skychamber_studios]

It's DEFINITELY the best of the trilogy, and has become my second favorite film in the franchise

[@AlexM-Kaiser]

Agreed, I think the entire trilogy was at the very least very enjoyable. And the Desolation of Smaug is definitely the best overall of the three for me

[@mikemartin8461]

Luke Evans been cast in this series is truly pure genius he fits this franchise to a tee

[@jamesdawson2393]

When Smaug says "my wings" with the shake in his voice is so good, Benedict did an amazing job as both Smaug and the Necromancer.

[@joshbourne9679]

It’s crazy to me that smaug is one of the smallest dragons of middle earth. Like he’s a baby compared to the ones in the second age

[@vincentpuccio3689]

You just said that the flames must be so hot and intense from this dragon. When I was a boy, I was friendly with the janitor in my high school. One day he said, give me I wanna show you something, and he made me stand in front of the furnace on a yellow line that was the safety zone. He says just stay in there and he open the door, well, the heat came out of the furnace and literally felt like someone slapped me in the face, so I imagine Smaug.

[@queengoddessb69]

There is a great part in the book when they are in Rivendell, showing Elrond the items they found in the troll cave. Elrond is telling them the names of the Elven made blades. Bilbo asks if all Elven swords have names what is the name of his. Bilbo is told Elven *swords* have names, but his blade is more of a belt-knife than a sword. That is why Bilbo names it himself.

[@TheWindcrow]

Denise and Ari, we see Balin and Ori later in the first movie The Fellowship of the Ring. Balin is in the Tomb and Ori is the one that wrote the last words of the journal....... "We cannot get out......They are here" in the room with the cave troll fight. =(

[@phousefilms]

Leave us hanging? Imagine seeing this in theatres and having to wait a goddamn YEAR for the next one! Think on that! You can just watch it in the next few days!

[@terrylandess6072]

It was fun to see Benedict and Martin reunited after their Sherlock series. In Middle Earth, Worms are the name given to the fire 'creating' lizard types with Dragons being the Alphas. So saying slug was quite the low blow to a dragon's ego.

[@Westlie8i8]

The river action scene was an absolute chef's kiss

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We still want that "Lord of the Rings" theme park!

[@Westlie8i8]

​@@OfficialMediaKnightsplease same. Been praying for that since forever. We need it😫

[@di3486]

Haha I kind of hate the over CGI’d video game action thing but it doesn’t bother me too much anymore. These movies have moments that make up for things like that.

[@Jacana2k6]

This movie is where they added a lot of extra stuff to help stretch the story out into three movies. I'm not complaining. Definitely needed more females, Bard's kids and the she-elf, to balance out the original set of 15 boys. And the fight on the river in the barrels was fun. The talk between Bilbo and Smaug was directly from the book. The power of Tolkien's words. it was the same between Bilbo and Gollum.

[@EmperorDude1990]

The elves of Mirkwood are different from the elves of Imladris and Lothlorien because they are Sindarin elves, 'the grey folk'. They never journeyed to the Blessed Realm of Aman in the west to live with the Valar like their Noldorin cousins (Galadriel herself lived there but Elrond did not, though his grandfather did) As a rule they are less powerful but also less noble and wise.

[@IcyDeath91]

The elves of lorien and mirkwood are almost all sylvan elves or green elves. They keft the great journey before they reached the sea. Most of them befire they crossed the misty mountains. Onlu the rulers were sindarin with galadriel being quarter noldor, quarter vanyar and half teleri.

[@amirsharif6003]

Bilbo certainly used the Ring more, and hold it second longest. He is extremely lucky though. The Enemy is still gathering strength, and its Will are not bend towards it's Ring. Frodo can't afford to be like Bilbo. When the Ring came to him, every moment The Ring/The Enemy seek to subvert his will, and whenever he wears it, The Enemy can See him. Talking of the Ring, it mentioned one of the 7 Rings given to the Dwarves. All 7 were lost. But the Dwarves was extremely lucky. The 7 didn't manage to subvert them to become Ringwraiths, like the 9 given to Men.

[@MrBigPicture835]

Benedict Cumberbatch did the voice and motion capture acting for Smaug the Dragon.

[@aleatharhea]

The animators didn't use his mocap data; they just used him as a visual reference.

[@MrBigPicture835]

@@aleatharhea I Stand corrected. But i did see video of him doing a motion capture session on KZbin.

[@aleatharhea]

@@MrBigPicture835 Yes, and it's cool and definitely something they should check out! (The studio did imply that they used his mocap, probably for marketing or fan service.) I think there just was no way using the mocap data would've been feasible because they would've had to build terrain for him to crawl upon that mimicked the shifting mountain of gold; also, they probably didn't even have that modelled at that point. But they definitely took ideas from his movements and expressions! Cheers!

[@Professor_Wisteria_]

the first time i learned that BENEDICT MF CUMBERBATCH was the voice of Smaug, i lost my mind. Smaug is one of my favorite dragons in any fictional story i've read, and the man voiced him to PERFECTION

[@Wolfgangblood1408]

Did anyone notice before the dwarves went after Bilbo when Thorin talked about risking the quest, his grandfather’s stone face was in the background

[@DestroySteve]

They don’t have anything in the book about Sauron. The ring was merely a trinket bilbo found but they do well in incorporating that for the LOTR. The big reveal is pretty cool. Even as a book purist, these movies have moments of awesome.

[@opaliittiopa]

Well, the books kinda do have sauron, just not directly mentioned in the hobbit. Gandalf mentions the necromancer before the dwarves and bilbo enter mirkwood, and in other tolkien’s work it is told that the white council banished sauron from dol guldur to mordor (although dol guldur remained an evil place)

[@shadowlessxpan]

Anybody else notice the theater rumbling when Smaug talked/ growled/ roared? Such a cool moment

[@ALROD]

48:55 Balin is wholesome, but I have a sad story for you: In The Lord of the Rings, do you remember the beam of light iluminating a tomb in Moria? Well... 😔

[@ALROD]

@royalexodus2666 Well it is not a spoiler. They watched LotR

[@AlessaParker]

Ori was there too :'(

[@ALROD]

@@AlessaParker Oh yeah, that's true - the one holding the book

[@joannaholden943]

One things these movies did very well is the LAYERS of conflict between the elves and the dwarves. No one side is perfectly faultless. You get why the elves did what they did, but you also get why the dwarves respond the way they do. No perfect victims.

[@Morthenian]

I have been looking forward to this SO much! Found you a couple months back and cant stop watching your content. You are so genuine and come with the best reactions I have ever watched. I love the people you seem to be. You seem like the type of people i would love to hang out and have a chat with. ❤ Keep doing what you are doing. You are amazing ❤ /Pontus from Sweden

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Tack så mycket!! We are so grateful and happy to have awesome people like you being so kind and lovely in our comment section - you really made our day!!

[@di3486]

They are so awesome!

[@AWhistlingWolf]

Fun fact about the giant spiders: they all descend from one absolutely gigantic spider that existed in the first era of the Middle Earth universe, she was called Ungolianth. She was so powerful that she managed to overpower Morgoth, Sauron's master long before Sauron himself became the big bad guy, and Morgoth had to call all the balrogs of the world to come protect him before Ungolianth killed him. They managed to beat Ungolianth and push her away, but barely.

[@m3k569]

To be fair at that point Melkor was already diminishing himself. In the beginning melkor was the most powerful being by far(after eru of course) but he after going into Arda he was continously expending power to corrupt the world.

[@boyscouts83712]

Thank you so much for watching this series.... yet the best is yet to happen. Unfortunately Smaug's about to burn laketown worse then Kingslanding in Game of Thrones. The fact that the actually showed Saruon in the film...

[@VoidVintage]

5:53 - BOOP DUH SNOOT 😂

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Always 😁

[@JamailvanWestering]

1 of the things changed from the books is that Beorn isn’t the sole survivor of the skin changers, the Beornings (as they’re called) are actually the protectors of High Pass and the Ford of Carrock but of course this wasn’t without heavy losses. Sadly by the time The time Lord of the Rings started he passed away and his kin is led by his son Grimbeorn. (Although Tolkien never specified how but it’s probably due to old age, since he’s 150 years old here)

[@liquidchris4147]

The Hobbit trilogy got alot of hate but truthfully theyre some of my favorite comfort movies hearing "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran at the end credits was a nice surprise too

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

We listened to "I See Fire" and it's such a beautiful song. Honestly we've been enjoying these quite a bit!

[@asddsa-uy9ko]

Guys im 38 years old, so i normally find stupid watching someones reaction, i feel too old for this kinda shit but weirdly i really enjoy watching these movies i've watched years ago with u again. Your perspective and comments is way more clever then an average reaction channel duos. love u. cheers from Turkey.

[@leifenby1271]

the fact that smaug is one of the smallest dragons in middle earth terrifies me and excites me

[@soniciris]

in the movie theater watching the barrel scene was the most fun I'd had at a movie in years :D

[@kylec254]

I am SOOOO happy you guys are going through this trilogy!! I am very happy with Desolation of Smaug and it was more action packed, fast paced and thrived on the visual storytelling. I was so stoked when I found out that Benedict Cumberbatch was the voice AND the MoCap for Smaug. If you look it up on KZbin, you can find the BTS shots of him, working as Smaug. My wife was so mad with the ending of this movie. I, on the other hand, thought it was absolutely PERFECT!! Can't wait for Battle of the Five Armies!!

[@michaelwoodman8376]

Legolas' father(actor Lee pace).....also plays 'RONIN' in Guardians of the galaxy. Black haired guy w/ children (? name) plays young Tony Stark. She-elf (Evangaline Lily) plays 'WASP'.......Benedict c. plays Dr. Strange. Bilbo is in 'Winter Soldier'/'Black panther'. Lot of Marvel actors

[@thejaguarback]

in all fairness to thorin, when he said 'i will not risk this for the life of one....burglar', he does noticeably pause and struggle to get it out. he does know that bilbo is more than just a burglar, both to the company and to him personally. i won't spoil anything but you do see how important bilbo is to thorin in the next one pretty clearly

[@IcyDeath91]

Context on tauriel mentioning legolas pledging himself to a sylvan elf. Sylvan elves are a branch of elves that basically never followed the gods summoning to the undying lands (or left the journey very early). Legolas and his father are sindarin meaning they journeyd all the way to the sea and there left the journey to search for their lost king, who had seen the kight of the trees and were ruled over by a lesser angel, same race as gandalf. These sindarin elves are considered grey elves and sindsrin are green elves. Sindarin are considered a higher more power and intelligent race.

[@VW20-bq9in]

Thranduil marched with his father Oropher and army of his people in the Last Alliance of Men and Elves against Sauron at the end of the 2nd age. They suffered heavy losses including King Oropher, Thranduil returned home with less than a 3rd of elves that had set out to war and was made King. It's not hard to see why cares little for realms that are not his as he only wants to keep what remains of his people safe. He's also bitter that he lost his wife.

[@Frak1986]

probably if peter jackson had remained faithful to the book he wouldn't have had material for three films. But it doesn't matter because the additions, in my opinion, don't hurt the story. I can't wait to see your reactions to the third film. But above all at the end of the story. When I got home from the theater after seeing the third movie, I watched LOTR again.

[@Tar-Numendil]

I hope one day we get to see the War of Wrath on screen. To see Ancalagon the Black would be incredible.

[@Mr.Prufrock]

Gandalf wanted that ring to stay with Bilbo. As much as he hated the idea he knew a hobbit was the only one who could reject the powers, temptations and manipulations of the ring. Bilbo is the reason why he knew Frodo would succeed.

[@shep4life]

That barrel scene was crazy

[@phj223]

I love the weighted steps Thorin has in the first scene of the movie, where he's walking outside towards The Prancing Pony, you really get a sense of how compact and grounded Dwarves are. :)

[@gammac534]

I'm so excited that you guys are watching the extended editions. The 3rd instalment has more graphic battle scenes that bumped up the MPAA rating to rated R and I loved it.

[@Shiby23]

Dr Strange voicing smaug was sooo awesome. If you guys watch the behind the scenes seeing the actor get into character similar to smeegle its pretty EPIC. he doesn't just sit in a booth, he full on motion capture suits up. he bends around, kneels up and down. he actually PLAYS the dragon. i'd love for you to add that behind the scenes on youtube. some behind the scenes LotR stuff would make good videos too :)

[@TheNightshotBR]

People shit on this trilogy, but it wasn't a bad one by any means. The Lord of the Rings was based on three actual books. The Hobbit was just one book but I'm glad they stretched it into three movies. Even ONE Tolkien book needs three movies to tell the story properly.

[@jenniferatterton1587]

Thandrial is attached to thise jewels because they belonged to his wife snd is all he has left to remind him of her.

[@TheWindcrow]

Imagine being in the theater and seeing the end...........I was too pumped up to even think. I wanted the next movie now!

[@mr_yoru5834]

I had a lot of fun watching this in the theater. The audience went wild after the cliffhanger, knowing we'd have to wait a year for the conclusion of the story.

[@GérannGerberChannel]

Awesome reaction Media Knights!! Your movie reactions are so good, and I think my Top 3 so far is: 'Godzilla - 2014', 'War Of The Planet Of The Apes - 2017' and 'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - 2013'.

[@elvisg2410]

Benedict Cumberbatch does a great voice over for both Smaug and the Necromancer.

[@STÜDD_Music]

I can’t wait for the new trilogy, apparently it’s in the making now as we speak. Hopefully they use practical effects this time around, but I believe the reason they used CGI was because this movie was made for a 3D theatrical experience and it was also cheaper to produce the films. Remember, the lord of the rings franchise is the most expensive cinematic franchise of all time

[@aa88z-35]

I remember watching it in cinemas, and it went so fast. The cliffhanger killed me as we had to wait a year for the third part 😮

[@EarnestEgregore]

Every time I watch these videos I'm just reminded how fun these movies are, thank you for the reactions as usual!

[@nishal8020]

I think you guys are the first reactors to react like THAT about Benedict's voice. I LOVED that voice so much I watched the movie twice in the cinema. If you love his voice as Smaug, wait till you hear Benedict as the Angel Islington in BBC Radio 4's Neverwhere. This is my favourite movie out of the 3. I even bought the Art of TDOS book + the book about how the geniuses at WETA created Smaug.

[@davidlester5707]

FYI, Balin is who Gimili is crying over in Moria, as they find the tomb. Balin is who attempted to retake Moria.

[@philipbutler6608]

The Hobbit wasn’t a Trilogy. Tolkein did write another story with a Dragon that he tells how Talking to a dragon is very dangerous they can entrance people and cause amnesia. Their tactic is to learn about their victims through interrogation. Bilbo used riddles to keep the Dragon from learning about him. In Turins’ story the Dragon plays a very cruel biblical type trick.

[@CrownlessKing88]

I just noticed what looks like the bottom of a plastic plate showing? When it shows bilbo’s feet as he’s going down the stairs at 52:07

[@ChristopherLongbeard]

Most of Smaug's Dialog and riddles in the dark dialog are ON POINT from the book. Some of the most faithful to the book, and naturally some of the best scenes

[@CIrAzYIX]

If you want more interaction from bilbo and smaug you should watch Sherlock ;) Thanks for watching extended. For the third one extended makes it so much better!

[@nawlsone586]

Just wanted to say thank you guys for posting so much of your reaction. You could have easily put it behind a pay wall. Instead, you posted it for free. Thank you.

[@wesburnett5309]

Morning guys there is a series that I think u would love its SHERLOCK and it's Sherlock holms in modern day Benedict and Martin are the two leads the acting storyline chemistry are amazing The show boosted there careers

[@aminaadler]

Benedict is incredible with the voice acting ALWAYS❤

[@dylanthomas9089]

That cliffhanger gave me goose bumps in the theater's, then the wait of the third installment was long, and i remember everyone eating up any information about part 3, and it was long for those that couldn't wait.

[@hopefowler3219]

I love what the starts in the movies are so much more mature then in the books! Same with Bilbo! In the book they are always complaining like little kids!

[@DaddyDoom]

Azog doing Black Speech sounds like Finnish Doom Metal 🤘

[@Big_Tex]

19:00 Bilbo found a simple unmarked ring in a cave. Of course he doesn’t know it’s the Ring of Sauron. If you found a simple piece of jewelry in some random location, do you just assume it once belonged to Satan? In fact common folk like Bilbo would have known nothing about the rings at all. None of that ring history. That was very arcane knowledge known to the wisest high elves and Wizards and the rulers of Gondor, and not many others. (I think of it as a fallacy: viewers see the intro to FOTR, which Peter Jackson gives for the viewer's sake, and incorrectly assume the in-world characters know all that history too. They don't.) In the book FOTR, Gandalf spends two days discussing the existence of the ring and its history with Frodo before he leaves the Shire; prior to that Frodo and Bilbo knew none of that.

[@MrHoopski]

imagine having to wait a year for the thrid part when it first came out!!!

[@ippolit4262]

Wasn't like Two Towers to Return of the King suspense 🗿

[@nathanielreik6617]

Everyone is talking about how great Benedict Cumberbatch was as Smaug, which he was, but I love how he did the voice for Sauron. He actually memorized his lines in the Black Speech in reverse so they recorded them with him speaking in reverse and then reversed the recording so the real Black Speech came out. He did it that to add an extra sense of eeriness to the sound.

[@siddiquemunawartarkash1927]

Smaug is actually the smallest dragon in middle-earth, most of the dragons were present in the first age of middle-earth. That's why we don't see any dragons during the lord of the rings trilogy. If they ever do movies on the first age, it would be most interesting for me to see the scale of those other dragons and Balrogs.

[@Marianna55776]

Great reaction as always guys! This has easily become one of my favourite reaction channels ❤️. Also, I don’t know why so many LOTR fans criticise The Hobbit movies so much. They’re masterful in their own right and a nice trip back to Middle Earth 😊

[@annipsy2185]

Amazing. Last ones even better. Also benedict actually acts out as the dragon basically. Not just the voice. The footage does exist and its craazyyy

[@Noggahide]

Now, imagine having to wait a YEAR to see the next movie with that cliffhanger!!

[@danieldegraaf1217]

Now imagine seeing this in the cinema and actually having to wait a year to see part 3 🫠😆

[@highsidezombietv3858]

Love your reactions guys, keep it up 🤙🏻💪🏼 And Smaug is my favorite character in the series, there's something about him that just bleeds power and a firce to truly fear. I recommend watching the original animated Hobbit from 1977 and listening to "Smaugs boast", gives me chills every time 🔥 And fun fact; Benedict Cumberbatch AKA Doctor Strange from the Marvel universe lent his voice to "The Greatest of all Calamities" and NAILED it 🔥💯 Another video I would recommend is Benedict in a visual caption suit saying the lines and literally acting the scene out while in character, such a flex as an actor. 💪🏼 This is by far my favorite installment of the trilogy 🔥

[@thewanderingwizard9848]

They changed the prophecy for this movie to match what actually happened, because in the book the prophecy was worded differently and had a positive outcome that wasn't fulfilled until the time of Dain. Here is the full, beautiful text of tolkien's original prophecy: "The king beneath the mountains The king of carven stone The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden His harp shall be restrung His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore resung The woods shall wave on mountains And grass beneath the sun His wealth shall flow in fountains And rivers golden run The streams shall run in gladness The lakes shall shine and burn All sorrow fail and sadness At the mountains king's return!"

[@Destroyer94100]

The scenes where Bilbo awakens and talks to Smaug were absolute master class. I’m not a huge fan of the Hobbit trilogy but I gotta admit those scenes were incredible.

[@captainofdunedain3993]

Greenwood elves and Lorien elves are same kin. They all silvan elves. They have been here for ages. But their leaders Thranduil and Galadriel are not silvan elves. Thranduil is a sindar elf from Beleriand. Kinda higher rank. Also Galadriel is a noldor elf just like Rivendell elves. But Galadriel way too powerful. She is also an high elf which means she saw the lights of the trees long long time ago. If you realise director wanted to show the light inside her pupils. Small detail but some might like it to hear. I could explain all elves where come from you saw in the movies. But it would be really long comment. Just dont forget that they are much deeper than you think.

[@OfficialMediaKnights]

Love how deep this lore goes! Still learning stuff as we go along. Can't wait to eventually read these amazing books!

[@demyanrudenko]

"I am... death..." ALWAYS sends shivers through me

[@psychokitty71]

The song at the end of this movie is by Ed Sheeran and it's called "I See Fire". I highly recommend listening to it, if you didn't pay attention to it at the end of the movie. Also, the bass singer from the acapella group VoicePlay, Geoff Castellucci, did a cover of the song that I also recommend. Geoff has a tendency to dress up as multiple characters in his videos for cover songs and for this one, he dressed up as four of the dwarves. I don't expect you guys to film a reaction to it, but I thought that you might enjoy watching it.

[@Cameron5043]

Epic EPIC reaction, guys! You've made my day! Also, I will never EVER again be able to watch these movies without yelling "SNOOT BOOP!" at the appropriate moments! Omg, I'm D-E-D from laughing so hard! I will be haunting your channel for Battle of the Five Armies!

[@TrentRushton]

From the back story Gandalf wanted the dragon taken care of thinking what that dragon could have done in the service of Sauron.

[@TheWindcrow]

I wish a place like "Laketown" actually did exist. Closest we have is Venice, Italy. Still pretty cool.

[@Headshot-rn3it]

I'm excited to watch but I always seem to mis the videos by two days, love watching both of you react to movies and shows.

[@ChrisReise]

23:35 Cool that we have two MARVEL actors in the same scene. The Legolas' father plays Ronan from "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Captain Marvel" and Evangeline Lilly plays Hope Van Dyne from the "Ant Man" franchise.

[@Punslinger1005]

53:00 His …. DRAGON SCALE 😂😂😂

[@lukasbauer8783]

The forrest itself doesn't have any inherent power, it's the power of Sauron ("The Necromancer") having all those terrifying effects. Which kinda made me think that Sauron might have deliberately decided to create an evil, twisted counterpart to the Golden Wood of Lothlorien or even a perverted mockery of the "Girdle of Melian" and of his old enemy/kinswoman from the first age and her realm.

[@Enwaiyre]

The translation of what Thorin said to Thranduil was kind of: " I spit on your grave"

[@lainwakura]

i LOVE how energetic and just into this you guys are! :)