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New Hobbit-Themed Air New Zealand Safety Video Literally Shits on Sylvester McCoy


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Airline safety videos already feel like an unwelcome extension of the flight preamble, after you’ve taken longer than necessary to wait for boarding, board the plain and then linger on the tarmac. So what better movie property to associate with them than The Hobbit, which knows a thing or two about unwelcome lengthenings?

This isn’t the first such collaboration – that happened in 2012, and both Rob and I enjoyed it. But now? The stereotypical basement-dweller nerd who craves the One Ring? The bird droppings falling on poor Sylvester in real time? The weird and creepy way the Battle of the Five Armies turns into a group hug? The freakin’ END CREDITS on a safety video, because it isn’t long enough already?

Hmm, these really do follow my feelings about the Hobbit trilogy almost exactly.