The Special Effects of the Hobbit

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by zxcvbn

2.Sadly, the battle scenes in 300 have supplanted the Battle of Pelennor Fields in my mind as the greatest battle ever filmed. Hopefully the Battle of Five Armies will have similar levels of gore(it's only Orc blood, so it should stll be possible to get a PG-13 rating).

So many movies now steal LOTR-style shots and special effeects, e.g. Kingdom of Heaven and 300. 300 stole the Wargs, it stole the strange Grond-beasts and also quite a llot of other stuff.

Also Beorn will probably end up like Tom Bombadil in LOTR.

About magic: If they missed out all the fire that Gandalf made in FOTR, then they'll probably do the same in the Hobbit. They tried to keep it combat-magic free (except for the fire that Saruman uses at Orthanc in EE, but thats probably why they got rif of it) and I like that, because with that style of movie (not book) it doesn't work.