10 Movie Mistakes You'll Never Unsee
4. Thorin Is Wearing Modern Rubber Shoes - The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
All of Peter Jackson's J.R.R. Tolkien adaptations are filled to the brim with mistakes, yet in the case of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, the filmmaking is still so magnificent that it's incredibly difficult to give much of a damn.
The same can't exactly be said for Jackson's less-stellar Hobbit trilogy, which so often draws attention to its own artifice through its bloated storytelling and often sub-par visual effects.
Yet one moment in the final Hobbit movie, The Battle of the Five Armies, is rendered laughable for a most simple of mistakes: a choice of period-inappropriate footwear.
During Thorin's (Richard Armitage) climactic battle with Azog the Defiler (Manu Bennett), when Thorin gets knocked off his feet we can see the underside of his shoes for a brief moment.
And it's clear that Thorin is actually wearing the sort of rubbed-gripped shoes you'd expect to see in our modern world and not, well, Middle-earth.
Throughout the rest of the movie he's wearing more non-descript flat-soled shoes, yet presumably for safety reasons actor Richard Armitage was given more practical footwear for this slippery set-piece.
On one hand you'd think that Jackson could spend a little of his $300 million budget to paint out the rubber grips, but on the other, how many people have ever noticed? But now you know, you'll spot it every single time.