Strictly speaking, a wyvern's just a classification of dragon anyway. Those of us who grew up on Shadowrun tend to understand wyverns to be low-intellect dracoforms. Also? Truth in tale. I'm pretty sure Smaug didn't burn any of 'em in the book either.JoJo said:Definitely, or at-least undoubtedly the best animated. My only complaint is that after about half-an-hour of running around he failed to incinerate a single dwarf, which doesn't exactly give the menacing impression he deserves. Still, hopefully he'll cause some fatalities in the third film. Also, in before pedantic "he's a wyvern, not a dragon, because he's got the wrong number of legs, ruined4ever!" complaints.
True, though it's been a while since I read the book I'm pretty sure the dwarves weren't running away from Smaug for that long either, or jumping around between chains and riding tubs through molten larva. Don't get me wrong, I love the movies and the light-hearted tone which is consistent with the original book but it does somewhat take the bite out of Smaug's threat when he can't even roast one fat dwarf between quite a few scenes.FalloutJack said:Strictly speaking, a wyvern's just a classification of dragon anyway. Those of us who grew up on Shadowrun tend to understand wyverns to be low-intellect dracoforms. Also? Truth in tale. I'm pretty sure Smaug didn't burn any of 'em in the book either.JoJo said:Definitely, or at-least undoubtedly the best animated. My only complaint is that after about half-an-hour of running around he failed to incinerate a single dwarf, which doesn't exactly give the menacing impression he deserves. Still, hopefully he'll cause some fatalities in the third film. Also, in before pedantic "he's a wyvern, not a dragon, because he's got the wrong number of legs, ruined4ever!" complaints.
I think in the book, Bilbo and ONLY Bilbo went inside and then soon ran for his damn life as Smaug exited the mountain to lay waste to countryside and - by proxy - the intruders. Movies take license, of course.JoJo said:True, though it's been a while since I read the book I'm pretty sure the dwarves weren't running away from Smaug for that long either, or jumping around between chains and riding tubs through molten larva. Don't get me wrong, I love the movies and the light-hearted tone which is consistent with the original book but it does somewhat take the bite out of Smaug's threat when he can't even roast one fat dwarf between quite a few scenes.FalloutJack said:Strictly speaking, a wyvern's just a classification of dragon anyway. Those of us who grew up on Shadowrun tend to understand wyverns to be low-intellect dracoforms. Also? Truth in tale. I'm pretty sure Smaug didn't burn any of 'em in the book either.JoJo said:Definitely, or at-least undoubtedly the best animated. My only complaint is that after about half-an-hour of running around he failed to incinerate a single dwarf, which doesn't exactly give the menacing impression he deserves. Still, hopefully he'll cause some fatalities in the third film. Also, in before pedantic "he's a wyvern, not a dragon, because he's got the wrong number of legs, ruined4ever!" complaints.
Um not to sound rude but how exactly were they going to make a gigantic fire breathing lizard convincing in this day and age? Stop motion animation or a puppet? CGI was really the only way for them to go with Smaug.Johnny Novgorod said:I think they overkilled it a bit with the CGI but he was very impressive, sure.