He sucks as Gandalf. He is basically playing him as Dumbledore, a warm grandpa. He made Gandalf too human...

He sucks as Gandalf. He is basically playing him as Dumbledore, a warm grandpa. He made Gandalf too human. The real Gandalf has an air of coldness and aloofness. He is not of this earth. Christopher Lee actually would have been right for it.

He's admitted he never read the books. That's no excuse for Peter to let him act like a doting grandfather instead of telling him plainly what gandalf was like.

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Yeah, Lee as Gandalf would have been cool.

What would you expect out of a faggot?

Who should have been Saruman then?

JUST

Tom Hardy

are we on /lit/? mckellen's version of gandalf was neccesary to sell the character to the audience.

FUCK

Absolutely agreed.
Besides, Lee actually met Tolkien once and annually read the LotR books.

Didn't Christopher Lee ask to play Saruman?
In any case, McKellen probably could have been colder. His Magneto was pretty cold. Blame Hackson for the discrepancies

Seeing old men cry hurts.

If I recall correctly, he wanted to play Gandalf but was too old for the role.
He physically wasn't able to handle all the action scenes.

Was Ian McFaggot?

He and Tolkien were brothers-in-arms, after all.

Any day now

Any day until what?
He starts spinning in his grave?

Peter…

yes

no, he always wanted to play gandalf, but the producers thought he was too hold so he settled down to play saruman

Bullshit. Gandalf in the books is warm, friendly, fast to anger. Overall very human. Basically the only thing the movie Gandalf fucked up was not get as angry as book Gandalf.

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What did he mean by this?

If he's so powerful how come he never does anything impressive after this battle?

Fassbender was still better than him.

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