[ SECRET POST #3335 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3335 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Red Dead Redemption, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)


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02. [repeat]


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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04.
[One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful"]


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06.
[Hanayome wa Motodanshi]


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07.
[Driver: San Francisco, Jun and Ayumu]


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08.
[Naruto]


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10.
[Ash Ketchum/Professor Oak]


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Comments

[fscom]

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[kallanda_lee]

Dragons do make everything better.

[rbhudson]

Agreed, basically what I came here to say lol

[philstar22]

He was pretty well done. There were other parts of these movies I liked as well, but Smaug was one of the highlights.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious about your thoughts with the gold statue and the dwarf-chase before it. I thought Smaug was great when he was talking to Bilbo. I loved that they took dialogue straight out of the book.

I liked the symbolism of Smaug covered in gold but I felt the chase with the dwarves kind of diminished Smaug's credibility as a serious threat and took away some of his menace. It felt a little like he was running away in a tantrum to me, which felt like a disservice to the dragon we'd met earlier in the film. And I was really disappointed that they shunted his death to the next movie, thereby taking away the emotional buildup to his death.

But, yes, he was an excellent character and very enjoyable to watch.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't mind the dwarf-chase at the time, although in hindsight I can see your point in how it made him less threatening. The scene where Bilbo talks to Smaug was, IMO, one of the best in the film.

Yeah, I also agree that the attack on Laketown and Smaug's death would have worked better in the same film.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen it, but I wonder who did his voice?

[(Anonymous)]

Benedict Cumberbatch.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, I kind of liked it showing him getting worked into a frenzy and lashing out, and more interesting than him attacking the outside of the mountain. In a book we can hear his inner thoughts and see how it was logical for him to go attack them, but in a movie they had to be a little more obvious with it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the opposite. I really wanted to see Smaug attack them outside. I thought that would be more interesting than what they went for, which completely broke my suspension of disbelief.

[nightscale]

He was very cool and the conversation with Bilbo was fantastic and the best bit of DoS for me.

Sadly though they had him chase around after the dwarves in typical bad-guy-does-stupid-shit fashion despite the intelligence they had shown him having and his death was shoehorned into the last movie when the whole Laketown attack+his death should have been the climax of the second film.

I still love him though.

[ibbity]

Smaug was great. There are a lot of legitimate gripes about the Hobbit movies but Smaug is not one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't care for how Smaug was done. It wasn't terrible, but it fell so far short of what I envisioned that I was surprised by how underwhelming he was after all that build up of seeing him onscreen.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here, I thought he was GLORIOUS. I was hoping half the third movie would involve battling the dragon. When I found out he's killed almost immediately I realized I had no reason at all to see it.

[(Anonymous)]

He was always the highlight of that book for me. They did an amazing job though, I have to say.

[(Anonymous)]

he looked good but goddammit he needed to shut up about 40 minutes into his endless talking to himself

[(Anonymous)]

He was pretty great. I have a lotttt of problems with that series, but I will give it this - in each of the three movies there was at least one part that was completely fantastic (and each one was like straight out of the book, who'd have guessed?) riddles with Gollum, the one where Bilbo talks to Smaug, and Thorin's death scene.