With as many problems as the Hobbit movie trilogy had, I can say one thing for sure: Martin Freeman was a perfect Bilbo. Him being constantly irritated that he wasn’t able to sit comfortably and have a meal, all the way from the Shire to the Battle of Five Armies, was flawless. Freeman was a very good John Watson in the BBC Sherlock, but if The Hobbit movies had been better then his Bilbo would have been up there with RDJ as Tony Stark and Patrick Stewart as Professor X as greatest casting decisions of all time.
My main issue, as far as I can remember, was that it tried a BIT too hard to beat LotR in terms of drama and excitement when the original is clearly far less grandiose, but yes, the casting was definitely very solid, just like the first trilogy.
And while I do recall that one definitely being far less popular than LotR when it was released, I think it was mainly due to taking too much liberty with the source material in order to make a little book less than half the size of a single volume of the other last for a whole trilogy, I don’t really think it deserved THAT much hate.
Yeah, I was a big fan of lotr and the hobbit growing up (the books). I thought the lotr films were excellent, overall. Of course, they couldn’t include everything, and there were some minor deviations, but pretty damned good.
The Hobbit movies were hot garbage, imo. They diverge wildly from the book, and are very often indistinguishable from video game cut scenes.
The LOTR trilogy is an epic saga, the hobbit movies are a theme park ride. A nice theme park ride imo, but yeah they don’t have any of the depth and gravitas of the OGs.
It is a “door bell” literally, I think we just associate doorbells with electricity because the mechanical ones created in the late 1800s weren’t around long historically before electricity was widely available. They had pull strings, buttons with springs to strike the bell, etc
Yeah, that’s what I though of as well, but I don’t blame the other guy for not being able to picture something like that because honestly, when was the last time you’ve seen one of those?
In the west, they’re all electronic and have been electric since long before I was born. Occasionally, some people might have one of those old school door knockers, you know, some heavy bronze thingie mounted to the door that you can make a bit of a ruckus with.
But actual bells? Maybe in 3rd world countries you’ll see one every now and then but they’re exceedingly rare these day.
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