Age of the Hobbits was ROBBED of an Oscar nomination this year by some soundalike poser, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey .
A "mockbuster" is a movie intentionally made to seem so similar to another mass market film that it tricks customers into spending money on it, rather than the mass market version.
Seen very obviously here.
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"Age of the Hobbits" is a recent entry by production company The Asylum in a long, weird tradition of mockbusters.
It's now going by the title "Clash of the Empires" due to screamingly obvious legal issues.
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Warner Bros has brought its massive legal hammer down on The Asylum, who responded awesomely.
It's these hobbits – lower-case h – not these Hobbits.
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It even says so right on the movie poster!
Tricksy little Hobbitses. Alas, they still had to change the name.
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