Nice to know I am not the only one to fully appreciate Mr. Blessed's work.
Unfortunately, at least according to IMDB, some idiot casting director seems to think Ron Perlman makes a better fit.
Excuse me? Ron Perlman? RON "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST" PERLMAN?!?
I think I threw up in my mouth just a little bit there.
My hope for the adequacity* of this movie just dropped a bit as well.
I blame Guillermo del Toro for this. I doubt it would have happened if we had Peter Jackson at the helm. Yeah. I am one of those that thinks he did not due a half-bad job on the trilogy. I know a lot of hard-core fanboys have a problem with his vision of Middle-Earth. I did not think he did a bad job at all; in fact, I think he did a pretty dang good job.
But this atrocity is not, cannot be, and hopefully will never be, Thorin Oakenshield. Hellboy? OK. But he is not a dwarf. He is not Thorin Oakenshield, son of Thrain, King under the Mountain.
THIS is Thorin.Or even this.
Heck, at this point I would even settle for Prince Vultan.
Yes. I went there.
Brian Blessed: he climbed Everest, played the Duke of Exeter in Henry V, and King Richard IV in Blackadder.
Now he deserves to be a dwarf.
(*adequacity: a term coined by WNYX's own Bill O'Neal.)
