You’ve clearly not seen a Komodo dragon then, or any lizard that’s large for that matter, cause they are all fast and and decently maneuverable. And the idea of a dragon which is based of lizards not being maneuverable as well is idiotic, perhaps not as maneuverable in the air but on the ground they should be extremely maneuverable.
That's because he's a Dragon, which are mythical creatures, so of course he'd be able to move fast. Not to mention the fact that he's the smallest dragon of Middle Earth in comparison of most other Dragons that are slow as hell the bigger they are.
Smaug is actually on the smaller side, plus he's lanky build allows him to be nimble, Glaurung was the least nimble dragon, no wings, his legs are so short his belly could rub the ground at some point.
@Dex4Sure Smaug dies the same way in the book, but it was a little more anticlimatic because the Black Arrow wasn't really that special as they made it in the movies...
Fun fact: The lake town was later rebuilt closer to Dale, Smaug's bones could still be seen at the bottom of the Lake at the end of the Third age, but nobody dared to go near them, even to collect the gems or gold that lied there with him.
i wonder what kind of plumbing( if any at all) does laketown have, I imagine they throw all their human waste in the lake so a rotting corpse of a dragon aint too bad it now.
@@The12thDimension. Considering the stars are a Valar thing, for Smaug thats like looking to see your enemy prospering. Dragons were made by evil forces to be evil in tolkiens works. In his eyes dying seeing the light of the stars was probably the worst way to go xD
Imagine a town you had recently passed through, that had helped you on your journey, now being attacked because of you. As you watch from a safe distance, all you can hear is the distant, mournful tolling of a single bell. A bell that begs someone, anyone, for help, but its cries are futile against such an assault. And is soon doubly silenced forever.
Kinda captured them and would only let them go if they promised gold so not very nice, the people in power that is. And yeah smaug weirdly decided not to kill the people in the mountain but some town far away but it was the dwarves home and they wanted it back, If I were one of them I would see why smaug would go destroy a city because we were in the mountain trying to take it back, I'd think he'd try to kill us until he just couldn't get us or until we killed or drove him out somehow.
Well a god in the body of dragon that is made to end the world and eat it, who is immune to time, who can change reality, who can shout and destroy continent, who can never die is more scary i think
Claudia De Sessa oh yeah without a doubt, but Smaug was considered one of the most feared during the Third Age. Enough that no army, not even Thandriel's would face him.
Claudia De Sessa Ancalagon was an ally to Morgoth, Sauron's Master. But yh he would have been very powerful. Although he might be too powerful for Sauron. Smaug was one of the last "Great Fire Drakes" of the Third Age. The only remaining creatures that were dragon like were Mordor Drakes and Fell Beasts. So Smaug was pretty much all Sauron woukd have as a Dragon ally, hence why they teamed up to conquer Middle-Earth.
Honestly, Smaug was by far my fave thing in the Hobbit trilogy. I was so pumped about this part since I thought we'd get huge dragon scenes but he was killed right in the beginning way too soon lol
Can we all spare a moment to appreciate the sheer heroism Bard showed with a single man’s willingness to stand up to unfathomable odds simply because it’s the right thing to do?
No i dont appreciate this fkn dumbass in the slightest Wish smaug first slowly killed his son before his eyes and then fry him Cant stand this mf character
No he did it because it was meant to be. It was his family that had the arrows im sure he knew for long that if the dragon ever came back he would have to save laketown.
I have to say though,out of all of Morgoth's creation the dragon is obviously the most beautiful and graceful looking creature he had ever created in Tolkien's universe.
I wouldn’t say graceful. He corrupted elves and turned them to orcs and he also created dragons as his version of the great eagles to inflict terror and destruction. Very cool nonetheless
This scene should *definitely* have been in the climax of 'Desolation of Smaug'. Having Smaug get killed at the start of BotFA made him feel like a footnote, whilst him getting killed at the end of DoS turns him into the final boss of the movie. Plus he was the main threat being built up by the Dwarves/Laketown plot. Imagine if the Helm's Deep battle happened at the start of RotK, after being built up throughout the Aragorn/Rohan plot in Two Towers.
When it comes to live action Dragons, in my opinion Smaug is easily the most realistic, mightiest and scariest of them all. Even though in this iteration of him, he looks more like a Wyvern. Now I know why he’s often referred to as the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities.
He doesn't look more like a wyvern, he is one. And he's still a dragon. It's honestly kind of annoying that people don't use dragon as a generic term and only refer to dragons as being the two winged, four legged variant.
Tyler McNeeley I can’t agree with you more. Wyverns like Smaug are still technically dragons. Even King Ghidorah from Godzilla King of the Monsters is a wyvern. Only difference is that Ghidorah has three heads and is from outer space.
@@sammontanez6908 Well the term wyvern came from English heraldry. Literally the only place where there were any differentiation between a four legged or a two legged dragon.
Let's be honest, even if all three were still alive, none of them together would be able to take on Smaug. This dragon would fuck up any Game of Thrones dragon.
Darío Farid I thought it was Bard’s ancestor/grandfather or whatever that caused Smaug’s original wound. So then it fell to Bard to redeem his family and finish off Smaug for good with the last Black Arrow.
Entire towns raised in a night, blown away like dirt in the wind. Massive armies and battles that makes 5 Armies, Helms Deep, Minas Tirith, and the Black Gate look like amature hour, and to top it all off, an entire continent the size of Europe and Australia sinking into the sea.
Destroying King's Landing and Winterfell would have been child's play to Smaug. He roasted and blew up 1/5 of Laketown with only one breathe of fire 0:27!
Neil Zulita Arya Stark aka Batman aka girl power aka she's the best ninja eva with less than 2yrs of training aka Mr killyobuildup one shotted the night King ending all his credentials....no argument matters when a 8000yr old being loses to a teen Ms "just lost my virginity".
@UNIVERSAL SPACE EXPEDITIONER uh? Have you even seen the show? He One shoted viserion, took drogons fire like nothing, he is immune to all kinds of fire, he would One shot Smaug
@@edosandayu6566I can't understand why everyone is complaining so damn much..that's a medieval series..every king, queen and conqueror did this kind of thing..they destroy the "old world" so they can build a new one..
I was forged by dwarves at least, so a higher quality arrow. He also always recovered it after firing, although it's unclear if this was a magical property or just luck.
@@jonathantregoThe original comment was about appreciating Tolkien and you said you didn't like the trilogy. Seemed like you were blaming him for the the lack luster trilogy my bad.
If you are praising Tolkien, you must praise Martin too... Because it's not his fault that S7 and S8 were bad but Creator's... I'm sure he'll end his books very very nicely.
@@retracted3383 there are no "old gods" or "new gods" :)) The 14 Valars ( or 13 because Melkor isn't considered a Vala anymore ) created and gave shape to Arda ( aka Middle Earth ) in the music of creation. Their subordinates are the "Maiar" ( lesser gods or angelic beings like Sauron or Gandalf or Saruman ) which complete tasks for the Vala sometimes. They didn't want to envolve with the creation so they let the people choose their fate. All of this is explained in Sillmarillion. :)))
Well it was made of wood, and everyone left the town so they couldn't put the fires out. But in the book, the town was covered with spikes so that Smaug couldn't LAND on it and tear it apart.
Thtlilmonster 93 thousands of men, women and children are burning and you don’t matter but when a terrifying killer dragon dies that has burned alive thousands of dwaves, men, women and children then you cry ?
Thtlilmonster 93 I cry as well every time I watch the movie cause when he falls it kinda makes me feel like he didn’t deserve it even though he did but Smaug is my favorite dragon in movie history even better than legendary’s king ghidorah mainly cause he can talk and likes to play with his enemies right before he kills them even though he fails in this scene 😭😭😭
smaug dying so easily(yes i know bard is skilled and hit an amazing shot and it’s necessary for the continuation of the overall story) is one of the only mistakes Tolkien might have made in my opinion. Smaug as a character is pretty incredible, something that isn’t often said of dragons. I wish we got to see more of him both in the books and the movies
Thanks for compiling this! I'm working on a paper about this scene for my "Tolkien and Film" class,and this kinda stuff is ridiculously helpful for analyzing the cinematic elements.
Even with all the horror he wrought upon that town and through the centuries... it still made me profoundly sad to see the death of such a magnificent creature. Definitely the most gorgeous dragon ever created for film.
Darion Perez dragons are EVIL. That's how Morgoth made it, just like balrogs, trolls, orcs etc. None of those were evil before he corrupted them-- even Sauron wasn't.
Darion Perez well if it makes feel any better in this parody video called Super Villain Bowl and he was resurrected and in the video he gets killed a second time by Godzilla.
Love how Smaug’s fall is all graceful after he dies. He’s one of the better Dragons in my opinion and one of the few best parts of this questionable movie(Part 3). And this from someone who LOVES the Hobbit book but was sorely disappointed in what we finally got for the screen. I wish Peter Jackson had had time to rework the storyboards into what he would’ve done after how he handled LotR.
Without the dying part, as shown Fatalis actually emerged victorious. Even surviving the 2 Dragonator without have a single mark on its body, unlike Smaug.
@@reallycantthinkofausername487 I mean, Fatalis is literally Smaug, but better. No BS, just start blasting. Regenerative abalities translates to no physical weakness. And Fatalis' flame make Smaug's look like a campfire.
@@reallycantthinkofausername487 Nothing wrong with that. Fatalis doesn't really carry the "interesting" personality that Smaug has BECAUSE of the former no BS attitude against anything it sees. Fatalis is the straight-up evil type while Smaug is the tricky evil type.
The Extended edition only has one scene where Smaug chases Bard and Burns more Buildings. The following scenes that aren't in there are the following in order: The master of Laketown Opening the floor for more gold to load onto his boat. Smaug destroying the main Bridge to Laketown. Smaug destroying the main Hall with the Dwarvish Windlance on top of it. (Very important scene to add, in my opinion.) Bard shooting at Smaug while on his way to the Tower. (Not filmed or animated, but Drafted): A scene where Bain runs through the town of dying people carrying the Black Arrow to the tower where Bard is at, but it's also where Smaug lands in front of Bain ready to eat him, but Bard, unknowingly, shot Smaug before he did, which would enrage him to attack the Tower, though that's before Bain finally reached Bard. (This happens in the book only.) A thrush, sent by Bilbo, told Bard where Smaug's missing scale piece is.
The last one is the most shocking omission to me, it feels so much more climactic if the trilogy's protagonist actually helps to kill the dragon. They even set up the Thrush in the previous 2 films, why did they not keep that?
Thank Got Dany did not had such a beast otherwise the episode 5 would have ended before it Started. Smaug can easily destroy Whole GOT world in 1 episode.
I assume Balerion, the largest dragon ever in GoT could've made Smaug his bitch, and Daenerys's 3 dragons (when they were still alive... xd) could take on Smaug too. There probably are larger dragons in LotR that could take on those guys fairly easily though, since the LotR universe in general is much more powerful than GoT is.
@@M8gazine "Martin recalled a recent email about an online argument over whether Drogon, one of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, could beat Smaug, the beast from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, in a fight, and offered a highly rational answer: “Basically, no. Drogon is a very young dragon and still barely large enough to get Dany into the sky… Smaug is gigantic, not to mention that Smaug talks and would probably have an intellectual advantage. But Balerion could give Smaug some trouble; they’re more equivalent in the size and ferocity department.”"
@@hl8808 the people in KingsLanding do not have black arrows and a shooter like Bard who can hit Smaugs onliy weak point. Smaug would destroy it easily.
I love Smaug not only is he one of the greatest live action dragons in movie history but he has a tragic backstory that explains his hatred towards all dwarf and elf kind.
The attack by Smaug on Esgaroth was rather different in the books than it is in the movies. Smaug did not catch them unprepared or unaware of his attack, in fact, the opposite: in the book, they had seen the fire and glow of Smaug's destruction, and Bard was the only man who truly understood what it meant. He warned the Master, and the town took up arms. In the beginning, the fight was not at all one-sided. Smaug played it tactically, and knew that between him and the lake, he could never win. Meanwhile, Esgaroth had every vessel in the town filled with water, and every building waterlogged, so when fire came down from Smaug up above they were doused in an instant. Bowmen shot at Smaug, and though they did not penetrate his scales and gold, they absolutely penetrated his ego, and so Smaug descended upon them in blind fury. This is where the battle becomes how it was presented in the movie: Smaug on rooftops, making every house a fireplace, destroying buildings with a single sweep of the tail. Women and children had already boated away, and the Bowmen jumped into the water. The last group of archers to remain was captained by Bard, but as all arrows but one were shot, they abandoned him as well. The Black Arrow in the book is just a regular arrow, not something fired from homemade ballista. It is Bard's family heirloom, and used by Bard regularly, but it has always been recovered. It was likely forged in Erebor as well. Before he fired the shot, however, a Thrush landed and told him of Smaug's weak spot (Bard is a descendant of the men of Dale, so he could speak to them), and so that is where he aimed. The arrow was swallowed by Smaug's flesh in its entirety, barb, shaft and feather, and his dying moments is the same as the movie: he shrieked in pain as he shot into the air, before falling down onto Esgaroth, his corpse destroying the town in its entirety.
David and Dan watched this and thought “Ahh Smaug had no motive to burn Lake town but people liked that scene. Let’s do the same thing with Dany and Kings Landing”
Her motive was irrational anger, frustration, pain and adrenaline. When she heard the bells she realized she had only planned as far as taking the city and her impatience was at its peak after growing for 8 seasons. What happens after? The people won’t accept her. They won’t love her. Especially not with Jon’s identity revealed. So, like she had done before, she would have to bend them to her will. If love doesn’t do it, fear will. If she doesn’t get to rule, no one does. She understands this and put together with the bullshit she’s been through, Jorah, Viserion, Rhaegal and Missandei all gone, Jon being unable to love her, half of her army getting destroyed, Tyrion repeatedly failing her, Varys losing faith and betraying her, Sansa pitting herself against her, she saw red. She saw fire and blood. That’s why she was kind of twitching when she was looking at the bells. That’s what happens when you lose control. You feel adrenaline pumping and your vision gets blurry, and then you lash out and do something reckless and stupid. She was blinded by her goals, her vision of a better world, and her own sense of righteousness, and was unable to see that the path she was following would result in mass genocide. She had to be stopped. And that is the tragic end of Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen.
@@Floristini Nice poem, mate! :) I just wish Dan & David had actually used more episodes and time to actually deepen the entire arc of Daenerys fall into madness. I can see it happening, but it happened too quick. And HBO was willing to give them even more money and more time. But... I guess they just wanted to hurry and go work on their new Star Wars trilogy.
He had a motive. He was a paranoid who protects his gold fiercely, and then he guessed the dwarves got there helped by the people from Laketown, so he went there to make sure they payed. Also, he would hurt Bilbo and the dwarves that way because they would watch the ones who helped them with no chance of doing anything for them but watch. And Dany had a tantrum.
I still absolutely love Smaug in these films, but I really feel as though him even just gliding by should be giving off incredible wind like a hurricane is passing by, and the part at the beginning where he swoops down near the water really seems as though that should have easily displaced the water from the gust coming off of him.
Judging by the way his wings have to support his weight in the air, how exactly was Smaug 'climbing' at 4:18? I know this is a fantasy movie, but even with momentum from the downsweep of his wings, I'm not sure that would have been enough to keep him going that high into the air when he died.
Adrenaline probably, you could see he wasn't moving upward very quickly, and when the wings where not moving down he wasn't gaining any height. With his adrenaline pumping a single one of those wings could still generate lift needed to be airborne. Though it was far from actual flying. Aggressive flailing to get away is more accurate
Gotta love how petty Smaug is with the way he enjoyed burning the town out of spite but when he's targetting specifically on Bard he resorted to just bumping and using his claws as if toying with his only brave challenger
I remember my dad brought me to see this movie at the cinema randomly out of the blue. I had never seen the hobbit or lord of the rings. And when the opening scene was a dragon attack I was instantly captivated lol!
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Smaug's speed and maneuverability despite his large size was impressive
You’ve clearly not seen a Komodo dragon then, or any lizard that’s large for that matter, cause they are all fast and and decently maneuverable.
And the idea of a dragon which is based of lizards not being maneuverable as well is idiotic, perhaps not as maneuverable in the air but on the ground they should be extremely maneuverable.
@@E-6969 dude it’s not that serious
That's because he's a Dragon, which are mythical creatures, so of course he'd be able to move fast. Not to mention the fact that he's the smallest dragon of Middle Earth in comparison of most other Dragons that are slow as hell the bigger they are.
Smaug is actually on the smaller side, plus he's lanky build allows him to be nimble, Glaurung was the least nimble dragon, no wings, his legs are so short his belly could rub the ground at some point.
@@E-6969I don’t disagree with your point but there is a different between a Komodo dragon and a 400 ft flying dragon…..
smaug is done so perfect i wanted him to be much longer in the movie
@@haillobster7154
Yeah he also needs his own movie too.
CGI buget not allow that
We might actually see him in amazon's Lord of the Rings series.
The best dragon in fantasy historie. He was my favorite charakter.
I agree, he should have been the final antagonist of the movie rather than the opening one.
I wonder what hurt worse in the end, the arrow itself, or the shock of a "pathetic little mortal" landing a perfect deadshot.
Probably both
Probably the arrow since the black arrows were made specifically to kill dragons
Jake Alter no the black arrow is just a lucky arrow that bard inherited from his ancestor the king of Dale
Luke Warila if you go by the book then that’s true
Or shock that the makeshift bow Bard made worked without severely injuring his son and successfully launched the arrow into the scale sized weakpoint
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how stunning the special effects are. They look fantastic.
Halberd-3 especially the fire and how he destroys lake town Smaug is such a Badass dragon
Not really.
@@AlexandrusMegus not really? care to elaborate? those sfx are very high quality
Pretty sure that's WETA workshops they always do a fantastic job
@@gwit4051 Smaug looks pretty cheap compared to Game of Thrones for instance.
0:14-0:20 The way that the camera follows Smaug gliding through the sky towards the town before burning it was incredible!
kudos to cameraman
long live cameraman....
Peter himself was the one who records the scene with the 3D camera.
too bad none of it is real
@@gaynzz6841 That's kinda dark
I teared a little when Smaug died because he was my favorite character.
My feelings about Sauron being repelled like a little bitch by Galadriel exactly. Azog's death was also pretty unsettling to me.
Yup
@Dex4Sure Smaug dies the same way in the book, but it was a little more anticlimatic because the Black Arrow wasn't really that special as they made it in the movies...
He is also my favorite character, I can't help but smile when I see him.
Voldemort I smile every time I remember how he was acted behind the scenes haha
Fun fact: The lake town was later rebuilt closer to Dale, Smaug's bones could still be seen at the bottom of the Lake at the end of the Third age, but nobody dared to go near them, even to collect the gems or gold that lied there with him.
@TurtleO’Confusion underwater...
@@user-jh9nx6tl1n Rotten carcass emits disgusting smell and toxic substance
The waters were poisonous, and that doesn't include the dangerous debris
Imagine if his spirit possessed someone who tried to steal from his skeleton...
i wonder what kind of plumbing( if any at all) does laketown have, I imagine they throw all their human waste in the lake so a rotting corpse of a dragon aint too bad it now.
i believe this is the last video Daenerys watched before attacking King's landing.
Danny; ''hmmm fly high spit fire ok, im ready to go''
@@robinsonray6766 😂🖒
Lol delete that stupid username, Greg's 100% natural
Clearly, she was angry that they killed Smaug, and she wanted revenge. Lol
HOW TO: use a dragon to burn a city
I felt like crying a little when Smaug died. Such a memorable character to these movies...
Oh no! The bells rang! The town surrendered! Why do you keep on attacking Dany?
Oops, wrong show.
😂😂😂
Badass as Drogon may have been, he'd be fucked up in a second by this dragon in all fairness.
Drogon and Smaug Dracarys forever
This isn’t even a show. It’s a masterpiece movie
This is a movie. It's not a show.
Every time a bell rings a dragon burns a city.
this explains Notre Dame
And the audience holds its breath.
Capa Raza
Wait, so where’s the Dragon that burned Notre Dame at now?
@@thalmoragent9344 it was a furtive one
Capa Raza
What does that mean?
The last thing he sees before death are the stars.
Thats a nice way to describe his death considering he could have just looked down and see a town full of innocent people buring to death.
Honestly I think that's the best thing you can die looking at
Varda sends her regards
@@The12thDimension. Considering the stars are a Valar thing, for Smaug thats like looking to see your enemy prospering. Dragons were made by evil forces to be evil in tolkiens works. In his eyes dying seeing the light of the stars was probably the worst way to go xD
@@The12thDimension. For a dragon looking at your gold hoard is probably better than looking at some dumb stars.
The way smaug Glides in the air and then descends only hearing the wind while inhaling his fire then destroying a town was beautiful
The wind sound as he glided sent chills on my skin but fire in his chest lit up sent goosebumps on my spine
I'm glad we got to see him in action. It kinda explains why none of the orc armies ever tried to go past the lonely mountain before this.
Imagine a town you had recently passed through, that had helped you on your journey, now being attacked because of you. As you watch from a safe distance, all you can hear is the distant, mournful tolling of a single bell. A bell that begs someone, anyone, for help, but its cries are futile against such an assault. And is soon doubly silenced forever.
Kinda captured them and would only let them go if they promised gold so not very nice, the people in power that is. And yeah smaug weirdly decided not to kill the people in the mountain but some town far away but it was the dwarves home and they wanted it back, If I were one of them I would see why smaug would go destroy a city because we were in the mountain trying to take it back, I'd think he'd try to kill us until he just couldn't get us or until we killed or drove him out somehow.
*"......um.....my bad."*
Gaslighter
Well, let's hope no one survived to hold me accountable
fu mean "begging for help" bruh they killed him 😭
There is nothing more scary than a speaking dragon with built reverb and equalizer on his voice
Well a god in the body of dragon that is made to end the world and eat it, who is immune to time, who can change reality, who can shout and destroy continent, who can never die is more scary i think
Benedict Cumberbatch
There's more magic going on here than Reverb and EQ
You should listen to the German version. This gives you goosebumps for sure. 😍
ghidorah : do I look a joke for you
Why is this in my recommendations after Dani burned Kings Landing.
RSP Varun Me too lol
I know right
This is better lol.
Me too
Lol me too
Easily would have been Sauron's deadliest ally.
Actually, there are way scarier and bigger dragons in Middle Earth. Smaug is one of the smallest :)
Claudia De Sessa oh yeah without a doubt, but Smaug was considered one of the most feared during the Third Age. Enough that no army, not even Thandriel's would face him.
That's true. But just imagine Sauron getting Ancalagon the Black as an ally! But (un)fortunately he was dead by the time of The Hobbit
Claudia De Sessa Ancalagon was an ally to Morgoth, Sauron's Master. But yh he would have been very powerful. Although he might be too powerful for Sauron. Smaug was one of the last "Great Fire Drakes" of the Third Age. The only remaining creatures that were dragon like were Mordor Drakes and Fell Beasts. So Smaug was pretty much all Sauron woukd have as a Dragon ally, hence why they teamed up to conquer Middle-Earth.
I have nothing to object ;)
Honestly, Smaug was by far my fave thing in the Hobbit trilogy. I was so pumped about this part since I thought we'd get huge dragon scenes but he was killed right in the beginning way too soon lol
Can we all spare a moment to appreciate the sheer heroism Bard showed with a single man’s willingness to stand up to unfathomable odds simply because it’s the right thing to do?
No i dont appreciate this fkn dumbass in the slightest
Wish smaug first slowly killed his son before his eyes and then fry him
Cant stand this mf character
Mainly to protect his kids
@@mrc6808 He don't know where his kids are, he's just assuming that they're fleeing.
No he did it because it was meant to be. It was his family that had the arrows im sure he knew for long that if the dragon ever came back he would have to save laketown.
I have to say though,out of all of Morgoth's creation the dragon is obviously the most beautiful and graceful looking creature he had ever created in Tolkien's universe.
I wouldn’t say graceful. He corrupted elves and turned them to orcs and he also created dragons as his version of the great eagles to inflict terror and destruction. Very cool nonetheless
This scene should *definitely* have been in the climax of 'Desolation of Smaug'. Having Smaug get killed at the start of BotFA made him feel like a footnote, whilst him getting killed at the end of DoS turns him into the final boss of the movie. Plus he was the main threat being built up by the Dwarves/Laketown plot. Imagine if the Helm's Deep battle happened at the start of RotK, after being built up throughout the Aragorn/Rohan plot in Two Towers.
What's amazing about this scene is that Benedict Cumberbatch actually got shot with an arrow through his chest while filming.
Another fun fact is this isn't cgi Benedict Cumberbatch actually turnt himself into a dragon for this movie
@@bucketofsick478 another fun fact: This is CGI.
I saw a picture of Smaug wearing a motion capture suit
@@oleschneider7857 another fun fact. You are an absolute buzzkill
@@oleschneider7857 whoooosh
If I had a gold coin every time someone mentioned GoT in this comments section I would have more gold than Erebor
When it comes to live action Dragons, in my opinion Smaug is easily the most realistic, mightiest and scariest of them all. Even though in this iteration of him, he looks more like a Wyvern. Now I know why he’s often referred to as the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities.
He doesn't look more like a wyvern, he is one. And he's still a dragon. It's honestly kind of annoying that people don't use dragon as a generic term and only refer to dragons as being the two winged, four legged variant.
Tyler McNeeley I can’t agree with you more. Wyverns like Smaug are still technically dragons. Even King Ghidorah from Godzilla King of the Monsters is a wyvern. Only difference is that Ghidorah has three heads and is from outer space.
@@tylermcneeley3136 THANK YOU SOMEONE WITH MORE THAN 2 BRAIN CRELLS
@@sammontanez6908 Well the term wyvern came from English heraldry. Literally the only place where there were any differentiation between a four legged or a two legged dragon.
I mean smaug looks great, but in terms of photorealism and detail... Dany's babies have to win
At the beggining he was Drogon but went Rheagal at the end lol
He died like Viserion, since it was one shot
it was actually two shots, he had given one shot to smaug long ago and the only way of killing him was striking in the same place
Let's be honest, even if all three were still alive, none of them together would be able to take on Smaug. This dragon would fuck up any Game of Thrones dragon.
@Sonyeondan Ancalagon the Black says howdy.
Darío Farid I thought it was Bard’s ancestor/grandfather or whatever that caused Smaug’s original wound. So then it fell to Bard to redeem his family and finish off Smaug for good with the last Black Arrow.
I really can't imagine how wars in Silmarillion would be looking like.
Too otherworldly to be shown on a live-action movie. They would need a game or a full CGI movie, because that shit would be CRAZY!
Entire towns raised in a night, blown away like dirt in the wind. Massive armies and battles that makes 5 Armies, Helms Deep, Minas Tirith, and the Black Gate look like amature hour, and to top it all off, an entire continent the size of Europe and Australia sinking into the sea.
Noah Johnson yep
Mythic age in a nutshell
ancalagon blowing a crater in the ground bigger than the lake with a single breath
@@noahjohnson935 Outstanding.
Smaug would've ended Game of thrones in an hour.
Destroying King's Landing and Winterfell would have been child's play to Smaug. He roasted and blew up 1/5 of Laketown with only one breathe of fire 0:27!
The night king will kill him. Nigh king is immune to fire
Neil Zulita Arya Stark aka Batman aka girl power aka she's the best ninja eva with less than 2yrs of training aka Mr killyobuildup one shotted the night King ending all his credentials....no argument matters when a 8000yr old being loses to a teen Ms "just lost my virginity".
Lol nope, not the movie version, balerion would kill him under a minute, and Night king would One shot him
@UNIVERSAL SPACE EXPEDITIONER uh? Have you even seen the show? He One shoted viserion, took drogons fire like nothing, he is immune to all kinds of fire, he would One shot Smaug
Glaurung looking down during the destruction of Laketown: "That's my boy!"
Glaurung after Smaug get's shot: "Fuck do I ever miss Ancalagon."
Who tf is glaurung?
@@Tibo-f8s He was the first Dragon that ever lived. He's only in the Silmarillion.
Glaurung to ancalagon:oh dear oh dear come here u little gorgeous daddys proud of u
Glaurung to smaug:ur a great f*cking talker but ur a sh*t cook
Glaurung: guys wft you are literal beasts
Glaurung was killed by a human and Ancalagon by a flying chicken, so they have no right to talk shit.
Anyone else think the shot at 1:47 is amazing, or is it just me?
noone can legally disagree with you
no not just you
I think so too
I hate that question. Objectively popular opinion followed by "or is that just me?" no. It isn't. It's never just you
If only Smaug was in game of thrones…
A Knight’s Legacy I dont think he gives 2 shits about humans or night king
OMG my thoughts,exactly!
dexon777 not until he hears that there is a woman out there who can’t be burnt with any fire 🔥
Smaug is huge though like 3x the size of Drogon.
@@FoxMonkey-xw5yf He's about the double size, not triple. Let him fight with Balerion, that would be funny😂
this is how daenerys is about to pull up on kings landing next week and i can’t wait
I hope so
Those fucks had it coming.
And they bout to shoot drogon out of the air out of the blue
And she did it!
Could not have been more accurate.
Who is here after the last episode of GoT?
Every one criticizing what danereys has done but for me it was just.. burn them all! Loved it..
🙋
@@edosandayu6566I can't understand why everyone is complaining so damn much..that's a medieval series..every king, queen and conqueror did this kind of thing..they destroy the "old world" so they can build a new one..
@@stefanciocan1605 humanity problem i thinl
I am here
Lake Town: *trail of ants in my kitchen*
Smaug: *me with a Raid spray can*
I AM... DEATH.
Warning : When a dragon visits your city DO NOT RING THE BELLS
Why
@@fauziahmdisa457 you didn't watch game of thrones that's why you don't understand
No it's just that why would anyone not ring a bell when a dragon visits your City
That awkward moment when you realize in the books The Black Arrow was nothing special and is just Bard's favorite arrow.
I was forged by dwarves at least, so a higher quality arrow. He also always recovered it after firing, although it's unclear if this was a magical property or just luck.
Did you really read the book?
@@OptimalMario I read The Hobbit, but it's been awhile since I read that.
You could say it was special because it was bard's favorite.
It was also passed down so there’s that
After GOT, My respect is grew %100 to Tolkien and New Line Cinema... Thanks God we have J.R.R Tolkien
Erhan Aydin Not really a fan of the Hobbit trilogy.... The Lord of Rings were close to perfect though.
@@jonathantrego Tolkien didn't make the movies lmao he died in the 70's. The book is good.
@@sikid4000 I know, where did I say Tolkein made the movies lol.... I was talking about the movies being an accurate depiction of the books....
@@jonathantregoThe original comment was about appreciating Tolkien and you said you didn't like the trilogy. Seemed like you were blaming him for the the lack luster trilogy my bad.
If you are praising Tolkien, you must praise Martin too... Because it's not his fault that S7 and S8 were bad but Creator's... I'm sure he'll end his books very very nicely.
Without a doubt, the best scene of Dragon's attack in movie history.
The attack of the BEST dragon in film history.
Wait for king ghidorah
Game of Thrones S7 ep 4 - 'spoils of war' did it better IMO. Im more of a lotr fan so this isnt a biased opinion.
@@matthewpaddon3895
Drogon is awesome, too.
@@haillobster7154 that he is
The power dive Smaug does just before burning the town is awesome.
4:32 it took a while to notice but when you see the city below smaug, it looks like his eye
Ancalagon the Black would have completely destroyed laketown in only one breath of fire
Dude, he destroyed a mountain range just by falling over.
AustinKnight X not an entire range but he did break three mountains
A single fire breath from ancalagon would have set that entire lake on fire.
Undoubt!
Ancalagon wouldn't even have needed to fly over there to do it either. He could have charred that shit from a distance.
why didnt the writer give the dragon more time
Usman JJ Cgi is expensive
The CGI-animator had a sudden heart-attack.
he or she does not know the dragon has two hearts
Why couldnt Smaug just leave the village after burning it and flew back to the mountain lol
+SilverGhostFury because he got killed
Black Arrow dps is broken. Please nerf.
Chris Davis more like single use magic item used by the legendary warriors but is not manufactured anymore because the gods are dead bullshit
@@lucastham9328 the "gods" are not dead...they are in Aman..( Like the Heaven of Middle Earth ).
The Elder King the old gods or the new?
@@retracted3383 there are no "old gods" or "new gods" :)) The 14 Valars ( or 13 because Melkor isn't considered a Vala anymore ) created and gave shape to Arda ( aka Middle Earth ) in the music of creation. Their subordinates are the "Maiar" ( lesser gods or angelic beings like Sauron or Gandalf or Saruman ) which complete tasks for the Vala sometimes. They didn't want to envolve with the creation so they let the people choose their fate. All of this is explained in Sillmarillion. :)))
The Elder King lol ik, it was a game of thrones joke
*And there lies... the best dragon I've seen in last decade.*
Smaug: The targaryens send their regards
Well I suppose it's pretty ironic that a whole village that's surrounded by water gets reduced to embers from a monster lizard.
Stannis The Mannis Hey there! My thrust for Game of Thrones brought me here. I'm ready to see Drogon and Rheghal burn King's Landing.
Well it was made of wood, and everyone left the town so they couldn't put the fires out.
But in the book, the town was covered with spikes so that Smaug couldn't LAND on it and tear it apart.
How is that ironic? were they supposed to get an army of water buckets?..
" we built it on a lake to avoid things like this!
Coincidence. Not ironic...
-George Carlin
I cry every time I watch Smaug fall from the sky.
Thtlilmonster 93 thousands of men, women and children are burning and you don’t matter but when a terrifying killer dragon dies that has burned alive thousands of dwaves, men, women and children then you cry ?
Dr. Fox
We don't really care about them because we didn't know them.
"I ate it's people like wolf"
-Smaug
Want to cry "now" ?
@@thefoxus2040
Short answer - yes.
Thtlilmonster 93 I cry as well every time I watch the movie cause when he falls it kinda makes me feel like he didn’t deserve it even though he did but Smaug is my favorite dragon in movie history even better than legendary’s king ghidorah mainly cause he can talk and likes to play with his enemies right before he kills them even though he fails in this scene 😭😭😭
Daenerys Targaryen aproves this!!! 👍👍👍
To be fair, even if all three lived and took him on together, Smaug would wreck all three of those dragons to the ground in a matter of seconds.
Stannis The Mannis Smaug vs glaedr who would win
The Targaryens send their regards.
@@heyheyheyheyheyhey76 and Ancalagon would take on these four as easy as Smaug would have taken on the three
@@heyheyheyheyheyhey76 Smaug couldn't even kill a group of dwarves and a hobbit. (Yes there was plenty of plot armor, I'm aware)
3:50 the growl gives me the chills
smaug dying so easily(yes i know bard is skilled and hit an amazing shot and it’s necessary for the continuation of the overall story) is one of the only mistakes Tolkien might have made in my opinion. Smaug as a character is pretty incredible, something that isn’t often said of dragons. I wish we got to see more of him both in the books and the movies
The bell rings.
A Dragon burn the whole city anyway.
Ser Davos: "I've never heard of beels meaning surrender."
So to all the GOT fans out there...I think this is basically what Drogon attacking Kings Landing would be 😂
princeofdatny except not quite as epic since Smaug is larger
@@jakealter5504 And Kings Landing isn't made completely out of wood
Bard the Bowman is Bron fantheory confirmed!
What does GOT stand for?
Draconian Fury Game of Thrones.
Thanks for compiling this! I'm working on a paper about this scene for my "Tolkien and Film" class,and this kinda stuff is ridiculously helpful for analyzing the cinematic elements.
This is a bit late, but out of curiosity: where was that class and what was it for? (If you're ok with answering, of course)
Even with all the horror he wrought upon that town and through the centuries... it still made me profoundly sad to see the death of such a magnificent creature. Definitely the most gorgeous dragon ever created for film.
I always get so sad when Smaug dies. He is too beautiful a creature to die
its a sham so much power to see him die its very 😢 rip smaug
Darion Perez dragons are EVIL. That's how Morgoth made it, just like balrogs, trolls, orcs etc. None of those were evil before he corrupted them-- even Sauron wasn't.
Darion Perez well if it makes feel any better in this parody video called Super Villain Bowl and he was resurrected and in the video he gets killed a second time by Godzilla.
Trey
that was great thanks for the info
Rip big snek
Love how Smaug’s fall is all graceful after he dies. He’s one of the better Dragons in my opinion and one of the few best parts of this questionable movie(Part 3).
And this from someone who LOVES the Hobbit book but was sorely disappointed in what we finally got for the screen. I wish Peter Jackson had had time to rework the storyboards into what he would’ve done after how he handled LotR.
0:10 what it looked when fatalis attacked castle Shcrade
Without the dying part, as shown Fatalis actually emerged victorious. Even surviving the 2 Dragonator without have a single mark on its body, unlike Smaug.
@@stygiandragon3865Fatalis dodged the pitfall of having one single spot on his body where he gets one shot
@@reallycantthinkofausername487 I mean, Fatalis is literally Smaug, but better. No BS, just start blasting. Regenerative abalities translates to no physical weakness. And Fatalis' flame make Smaug's look like a campfire.
@@stygiandragon3865 You're correct in that he is objectively superior, but I prefer Smaug personally
@@reallycantthinkofausername487 Nothing wrong with that. Fatalis doesn't really carry the "interesting" personality that Smaug has BECAUSE of the former no BS attitude against anything it sees. Fatalis is the straight-up evil type while Smaug is the tricky evil type.
The Extended edition only has one scene where Smaug chases Bard and Burns more Buildings. The following scenes that aren't in there are the following in order:
The master of Laketown Opening the floor for more gold to load onto his boat.
Smaug destroying the main Bridge to Laketown.
Smaug destroying the main Hall with the Dwarvish Windlance on top of it. (Very important scene to add, in my opinion.)
Bard shooting at Smaug while on his way to the Tower.
(Not filmed or animated, but Drafted): A scene where Bain runs through the town of dying people carrying the Black Arrow to the tower where Bard is at, but it's also where Smaug lands in front of Bain ready to eat him, but Bard, unknowingly, shot Smaug before he did, which would enrage him to attack the Tower, though that's before Bain finally reached Bard.
(This happens in the book only.) A thrush, sent by Bilbo, told Bard where Smaug's missing scale piece is.
Apparently, it's because Bard is descended from Dale, which means he can understand birds. Cool.
The last one is the most shocking omission to me, it feels so much more climactic if the trilogy's protagonist actually helps to kill the dragon. They even set up the Thrush in the previous 2 films, why did they not keep that?
Is it just me or does this scene ring any bells?? 😏☻
Lol burn them all
This is so terrible it's actually great
uh huh DRACARYS
0:25 I don't know why, but when I see an old woman or old man getting hurt or sad in the film then I'm just really sad, like close to cry...
Drogon should take example in the art of spitting fire efficiently
lol it looks like he did.
He finally did
@@rohanwarkhade9525 Finally yeah xD
strafing the kings landing walls and incinerating all those annoying scorpions
are you sure smaug isnt his father xd
I cried when Smaug died. He was so badass, so majestic, so larger than life…I know he was evil, but seeing him fall made me cry.
Everything in the last two movies was ridiculous except for Smaug. Smaug is magnificent. So well done and played.
Looks familiar... GOT 8*05
Other way around
That is a bit like saying the Cave Troll in Moria is a rip off of the troll in the girl's toilets in Harry Potter.
@@borusa32 and how so if there was only one month diffrence between movies premiere (and 43 years between books ) ?
But you know, with a four year gap in between them.
The Hobbit was written before GOT. And in the book it went kinda similar
Well... Kings landing is gone
Thank Got Dany did not had such a beast otherwise the episode 5 would have ended before it Started. Smaug can easily destroy Whole GOT world in 1 episode.
If drogon was as big as balerion the black dread(aegons dragon) the destruction would have been worse
I assume Balerion, the largest dragon ever in GoT could've made Smaug his bitch, and Daenerys's 3 dragons (when they were still alive... xd) could take on Smaug too. There probably are larger dragons in LotR that could take on those guys fairly easily though, since the LotR universe in general is much more powerful than GoT is.
@@M8gazine
"Martin recalled a recent email about an online argument over whether Drogon, one of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, could beat Smaug, the beast from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, in a fight, and offered a highly rational answer: “Basically, no. Drogon is a very young dragon and still barely large enough to get Dany into the sky… Smaug is gigantic, not to mention that Smaug talks and would probably have an intellectual advantage. But Balerion could give Smaug some trouble; they’re more equivalent in the size and ferocity department.”"
@@Nooneknows313 Look up Ancalagon the Black my guy...
The dragonlords of valyria had much larger dragons than Balerion, Targaryen was one of the weakest houses.
3:57 Me when I get stung by a bee at the pool and then I fall in the pool
This really should have been the ending scene of the desolation of smaug.
But then no one would have gone to see this movie lol
@@thecianinator honestly that's true
Drogon: I burned King’s Landing to the ground!
Smaug: Hold my beer......
Brandon M a lake town is more superior to a capital filled with troops, a fleet and scorpion bolts?
@@hl8808 the people in KingsLanding do not have black arrows and a shooter like Bard who can hit Smaugs onliy weak point. Smaug would destroy it easily.
King Ghidorah:Hold my crown
@@justsomekrakenwithinternet5965 Godzilla takes this head instead
Smaig: hold my beer, I'm crap.
Smaug is a garbage
Whats up with the dragons and getting killed with mortal projectiles? (Rheagal and Smaug)
And Viserion too.. You forgot?by the night king
@@danispiridon7219 I said mortal weapons :D Night king and his ice spears were magic
@@danispiridon7219 the night king is a God doesn't count 😆
It was a black arrow that killed him made by dwarves so it's not a mortal weapon. What I had a problem with us how it was delivered.
In the ASOIAF books, adult dragons cannot be pierced so his death was just another account of D&D ignoring the established cannon.
The amount plot armor here is stronger than Smaugs scales.
I love Smaug not only is he one of the greatest live action dragons in movie history but he has a tragic backstory that explains his hatred towards all dwarf and elf kind.
The trilogy was okay, but goddamn this scene is amazing. The cgi also really good...
lets be honest, we wanted Smaug to win
The attack by Smaug on Esgaroth was rather different in the books than it is in the movies. Smaug did not catch them unprepared or unaware of his attack, in fact, the opposite: in the book, they had seen the fire and glow of Smaug's destruction, and Bard was the only man who truly understood what it meant. He warned the Master, and the town took up arms.
In the beginning, the fight was not at all one-sided. Smaug played it tactically, and knew that between him and the lake, he could never win. Meanwhile, Esgaroth had every vessel in the town filled with water, and every building waterlogged, so when fire came down from Smaug up above they were doused in an instant. Bowmen shot at Smaug, and though they did not penetrate his scales and gold, they absolutely penetrated his ego, and so Smaug descended upon them in blind fury.
This is where the battle becomes how it was presented in the movie: Smaug on rooftops, making every house a fireplace, destroying buildings with a single sweep of the tail. Women and children had already boated away, and the Bowmen jumped into the water. The last group of archers to remain was captained by Bard, but as all arrows but one were shot, they abandoned him as well.
The Black Arrow in the book is just a regular arrow, not something fired from homemade ballista. It is Bard's family heirloom, and used by Bard regularly, but it has always been recovered. It was likely forged in Erebor as well. Before he fired the shot, however, a Thrush landed and told him of Smaug's weak spot (Bard is a descendant of the men of Dale, so he could speak to them), and so that is where he aimed. The arrow was swallowed by Smaug's flesh in its entirety, barb, shaft and feather, and his dying moments is the same as the movie: he shrieked in pain as he shot into the air, before falling down onto Esgaroth, his corpse destroying the town in its entirety.
David and Dan watched this and thought
“Ahh Smaug had no motive to burn Lake town but people liked that scene. Let’s do the same thing with Dany and Kings Landing”
Her motive was irrational anger, frustration, pain and adrenaline. When she heard the bells she realized she had only planned as far as taking the city and her impatience was at its peak after growing for 8 seasons. What happens after? The people won’t accept her. They won’t love her. Especially not with Jon’s identity revealed. So, like she had done before, she would have to bend them to her will. If love doesn’t do it, fear will. If she doesn’t get to rule, no one does. She understands this and put together with the bullshit she’s been through, Jorah, Viserion, Rhaegal and Missandei all gone, Jon being unable to love her, half of her army getting destroyed, Tyrion repeatedly failing her, Varys losing faith and betraying her, Sansa pitting herself against her, she saw red. She saw fire and blood. That’s why she was kind of twitching when she was looking at the bells. That’s what happens when you lose control. You feel adrenaline pumping and your vision gets blurry, and then you lash out and do something reckless and stupid. She was blinded by her goals, her vision of a better world, and her own sense of righteousness, and was unable to see that the path she was following would result in mass genocide. She had to be stopped. And that is the tragic end of Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen.
@@Floristini Nice poem, mate! :)
I just wish Dan & David had actually used more episodes and time to actually deepen the entire arc of Daenerys fall into madness. I can see it happening, but it happened too quick. And HBO was willing to give them even more money and more time.
But... I guess they just wanted to hurry and go work on their new Star Wars trilogy.
He had a motive. He was a paranoid who protects his gold fiercely, and then he guessed the dwarves got there helped by the people from Laketown, so he went there to make sure they payed. Also, he would hurt Bilbo and the dwarves that way because they would watch the ones who helped them with no chance of doing anything for them but watch.
And Dany had a tantrum.
The dragon by itself is magnificent. They've done such a great job .
Watching this in imax 3D ultra high def was crazy. It was really like there was a dragon in the room with me, and not a cg dragon but an actual dragon
I still absolutely love Smaug in these films, but I really feel as though him even just gliding by should be giving off incredible wind like a hurricane is passing by, and the part at the beginning where he swoops down near the water really seems as though that should have easily displaced the water from the gust coming off of him.
I wish there was a Lego video game of battle of the five armies
@@BlueSky-vd6qh Smaug was toying with him.
That was breathtaking scene 😍
Judging by the way his wings have to support his weight in the air, how exactly was Smaug 'climbing' at 4:18? I know this is a fantasy movie, but even with momentum from the downsweep of his wings, I'm not sure that would have been enough to keep him going that high into the air when he died.
Adrenaline probably, you could see he wasn't moving upward very quickly, and when the wings where not moving down he wasn't gaining any height. With his adrenaline pumping a single one of those wings could still generate lift needed to be airborne. Though it was far from actual flying. Aggressive flailing to get away is more accurate
It's amazing to know that Smaug wasn't the most powerful dragon Mordoth ever made. There are many of them, and some are stronger and larger
Wow, that little thumbtack of an arrow went really deep into Smaug.
1:08 - 1:13
When you clock in and the duty manager is pissed off.
aw man smaug shoulda won
Oof!
António
That would be stupid.
takenbooch it would be cool
DinoRaf RBLX shoulda let him destroy the whole town but let the characters escape
God damn bard punched the shit out of that roof and made a huge hole with little effort, at right below the 1 min mark
Yeah lmao and a perfectly square hole
I think he used the arrow holder thing to destroy it
Gotta love how petty Smaug is with the way he enjoyed burning the town out of spite but when he's targetting specifically on Bard he resorted to just bumping and using his claws as if toying with his only brave challenger
I like how this became relevant after GOT lol. this was way better than what we got with game of thrones.
The whole city is burning and the protagonist is unharmed hahahahaha
That's why I always cheer for the dragon
I love how Smaug is flying around before attacking
Smaug oh smaug.. Never play with your food
The dragon always reminded me of my dogs. Except the breathing fire part, and the talking. The flying.
This is the Ender Dragon on hardcore.
Good job again, you survived hardcore.
I don't think Smaug's heart was in it at the end.
The atmosphere was so much better than in GoT. Maybe they should have made the attack at Kingslanding at night.
4:24 When you have drink water 4 hours
Smaug the King Under The Mountain yep
Nicely edited
I remember my dad brought me to see this movie at the cinema randomly out of the blue. I had never seen the hobbit or lord of the rings. And when the opening scene was a dragon attack I was instantly captivated lol!