The Special Effects of the Hobbit

[zxcvbn]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Oh goodness, I sure hope that they don't do that! I thought that the wizards duel between Gandalf and Saruman in FotR surpasses any Harry Potter thing by far!

What?! I thought that duel looked cheesy. They were only throwing and spinning each other around! On the other hand the Dumbledore vs. Voldemort duel really showed the power and tension between the two adversaries. It was a purely elemental battle: lightning, fire, water, smoke, glass, sand etc.

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Also if they changed the magic level in the Hobbit way above what they did before it would look kind of stupid.

Well, there weren't many people complaining about the change in lightsaber combat and increase in level of force power use in the Star Wars prequels, were there? It'll work.

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by zxcvbn

What?! I thought that duel looked cheesy. They were only throwing and spinning each other around! On the other hand the Dumbledore vs. Voldemort duel really showed the power and tension between the two adversaries. It was a purely elemental battle: lightning, fire, water, smoke, glass, sand etc.

Wizards were loremasters and among the very wisest in ME, but were very capable of doing extradonary things with their powers, but it was not something that they did lightely. In Harry Potter they just pop off those magic spells as if they were nothing. It's called a wizards duel, not a fireworks duel, like they show in Harry Potter (I won't even get started on that).

Originally Posted by zxcvbn

Well, there weren't many people complaining about the change in lightsaber combat and increase in level of force power use in the Star Wars prequels, were there? It'll work.

That's because the origional Star Wars was created 15 years earlier. Not within a couple years, like the Hobbit will be done.