The Hobbit: DoS vs Alien 3

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Mattie
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I was just rewatching Alien 3 today and I think that the ending of this movie may have inspired the end of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.
At the end of Alien 3, Ripley and the remaining prisoners/religious fanatics decide to capture the alien in the smelting block and set it in molten lead, but it survives and jumps out of the smelter, but then Ripley douses it in water and the lead-coated alien sets and smashes to pieces.
Does this ending sound familiar to you (except for the dousing in water part)?
Well, in TH:DoS Smaug gets covered in molten gold, but then escapes alive and flies towards Lake-town, seemingly unharmed (yet enraged) by the gold, and flings it off as he flies through the air. We could have gotten a simple ending to the embarrassingly horrible Hobbit trilogy if only the dwarves doused Smaug in water :lol: But we didn't and we had to endure a third movie.
Has anyone else noticed this similarity?
What was the point of PJ making such a similarity for no seemingly sane purpose at all other than to make a nod to a '90's sci-fi cult movie. Did he think that would add cult status to his Hobbit trilogy? I don't think it did anything but waste time and money on a scene that made no sense whatsoever and added no significant purpose to the film.
The Alien quadrilogy is a cult classic series whereas IMHO The Hobbit trilogy went so badly downhill, especially with DoS. What ever PJ's purpose, it didn't save the Hobbit trilogy from being a flop.

Btw, Smaug would totally kick alien butt in a fight :stab: Oh no, I hope I haven't just started a Smaug vs Alien spinoff series *coughcoughAlienvsPredatorcough* :facepalm:
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Honestly I don't think anyone looks at the Hobbit and goes 'THIS film definitely is in the same vein as The Lord of the Rings it is ground breaking and masterful.'

Honestly it just comes across as them trying to push new technology for the sake of pushing new technology rather than for the sake of WE need to create this technology to make this worthy of Tolkiens vision. And honestly yes I remember that scene from ALIEN 3 and (I think there are few other similar type things generally playing with things like hyper cold though instead of molten metal then cold) which probably would have worked far better. Honestly they added so many 'fight scenes' because they were pushing to fill 3 movies they should have at most done 2 it would have made it less painful.

And while it did SIMILAR in the box office it's budget was over double what the LOTRs was and LOTR did bring new technology into the field with the balrog especially - as a film major no scene in the Hobbit made me sit back in awe and cry that I had not been born about 10 years earlier so I could have worked on that film where I cried for MONTHS over that fact with LOTR when I first saw the ads for it.
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