CGI Bilbo? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Sauron the White · 12-17-2007, 09:19 AM

Have to say that I loved Ian Holm as Bilbo in the LOTR films except in one scene - that one being where he is younger and finds the ring. He looked badly out of place and character. He simply is now too old to play a much younger, much more active Bilbo in THE HOBBIT a few years down the road. And he has had health problems as well.

CGI Bilbo with Holm as the voice? I do not like that idea either. Actors and actresses give films a reality that CGI can never touch. Its great for fantasy characters like a Gollum or Fell Beast or Cave Trolls. Those characters were wonderful especially Gollum with Serkis behind him. However, I would go for the actual flesh and blood every time possible since they can convery emotion and a sense of actual human reality that CGI still falls short with.

Find a younger actor for Bilbo.

12-17-2007, 09:19 AM	#2
Sauron the White Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 903	Have to say that I loved Ian Holm as Bilbo in the LOTR films except in one scene - that one being where he is younger and finds the ring. He looked badly out of place and character. He simply is now too old to play a much younger, much more active Bilbo in THE HOBBIT a few years down the road. And he has had health problems as well. CGI Bilbo with Holm as the voice? I do not like that idea either. Actors and actresses give films a reality that CGI can never touch. Its great for fantasy characters like a Gollum or Fell Beast or Cave Trolls. Those characters were wonderful especially Gollum with Serkis behind him. However, I would go for the actual flesh and blood every time possible since they can convery emotion and a sense of actual human reality that CGI still falls short with. Find a younger actor for Bilbo.