I strongly dislike The Hobbit films. Here is a video that briefly touches on a few reasons why...
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The Hobbit films
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Necron 99
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<sigh>
The Hobbit should have been a no-brainer. It should have been a great movie, or maybe duo, but the addition of so many pointless characters and unnecessary storylines was nothing short of a travesty in my opinion. To this day, the Rankin-Bass animated film will always be "The Hobbit" for me.
I sat through the first movie and while there were some issues I disliked, I consider it the least offensive of the two movies I watched, but could already see that it was not going to be the film I'd hoped for.
By the time I had the unfortunate displeasure of watching the opening scene for the second film, I was ready to walk out. The introduction of the characters from the party, to Beorn, was instrumental in developing that character of the story and it was completely ignored in the film when the party just bursts into Beorn's house, literally the complete opposite of how the scene is described in the book. Honestly, based on the character from the book, Beorn should have at the very least tossed the entire party out, if not shaped shifted and killed a few of them for invading his home.
After that, I don't think I gave much from the second movie, more than an annoyed glance, and by the time it was over, I was done with PJ's version of The Hobbit, not even bothering to continue watching the third movie (and I still have not done so, pretty sure I never will).
The Hobbit should have been a no-brainer. It should have been a great movie, or maybe duo, but the addition of so many pointless characters and unnecessary storylines was nothing short of a travesty in my opinion. To this day, the Rankin-Bass animated film will always be "The Hobbit" for me.
I sat through the first movie and while there were some issues I disliked, I consider it the least offensive of the two movies I watched, but could already see that it was not going to be the film I'd hoped for.
By the time I had the unfortunate displeasure of watching the opening scene for the second film, I was ready to walk out. The introduction of the characters from the party, to Beorn, was instrumental in developing that character of the story and it was completely ignored in the film when the party just bursts into Beorn's house, literally the complete opposite of how the scene is described in the book. Honestly, based on the character from the book, Beorn should have at the very least tossed the entire party out, if not shaped shifted and killed a few of them for invading his home.
After that, I don't think I gave much from the second movie, more than an annoyed glance, and by the time it was over, I was done with PJ's version of The Hobbit, not even bothering to continue watching the third movie (and I still have not done so, pretty sure I never will).
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ancalagon
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If you thought the second film was bad, you're lucky to have not wasted part of your life on the third film. Ho-ly shit was it awful. Wretched.
Maybe we'll be lucky enough before we die at ripe old ages that HBO, Amazon, Netflix, or some other outfit will make a true-to-source film / mini-series of The Hobbit to replace New Line Cinema's shit stain trilogy.
Maybe we'll be lucky enough before we die at ripe old ages that HBO, Amazon, Netflix, or some other outfit will make a true-to-source film / mini-series of The Hobbit to replace New Line Cinema's shit stain trilogy.
“Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan
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Captain_Blood
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You know, I would have been happy if it had just remained in book form.
“May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.” -Malcom Reynolds
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sbaldrick
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The Critical Drinker is my Spirit Animal. I think that the cartoon from the 70's was way closer to the spirit of the book. The movies had a passing resemblance to the first book that I ever bought with my own money.
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Ancalagon
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I've watched several Critical Drinker reviews and think his critiques have been spot on about 99% of the time.
Absolutely agree! Smaug was definitely more interesting in the cartoon than what was put on the big screen.
They both had some of the same names and places.
“Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan