God the fight choreo in Peter Jackson's hobbit movies is so bad. Everyone has no weight and just effortlessly wades through like fifty goblins who are all cgi cartoons so they just die and you never get any feeling that these guys are in danger or where anyone is in a scene.
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It's not just the Hobbit, I remember seeing someone just elbow a huge T-Rex head away while running like it weighed no more than a helium balloon in the Peter Jackson King Kong.
Get the physics/mass/weight right or everything has no consequence because it feels fake and dream-like.
"Don't be so quick to deal out death and judgment. Unless it's a goblin. Then look at that fuckers eyes as you push the knife into its chest."
Probably others, especially the third, but I don't want to watch them again.
on the other hand, I know people personally who have done WAY BETTER WORK on WAY LESS MONEY, so yeah... no excuses
When they're fighting out of the goblin tunnels, there's a bit where Gandalf just whaps his staff across the chest of the gobbo about to stab him. A shadow falls across the goblin and it just dies without a scratch
That's a cool effect
Then the sequel made Bilbo useless against the spiders, and it only got worse from there.
as a director/producer, you can’t possibly capture that lightning twice in one lifetime. just once is a miracle
And then gave him 6 months pre-pro