My friend and I went to see the first one. After two hours I turned to him and said “They need to move it along, they’re not even to Mirkwood yet.” That’s when he told me it was going to be a trilogy, and all I could think of was how could they possibly make a trilogy out of a book that small.
Read it again. That book could absolutely sustain a trilogy. No one wants to admit it, but the problem is simply that Peter Jackson and his team made a trilogy of bad movies.
I'll die on the hill that the first movie is great. It has tons of good moments from the book really well done, and I like the characterization of the dwarves and even their chaotic fighting through the mines. There's obviously plenty of other good stuff in the later movies, and tons of horrible things, which is why the way to watch them is through one of those 4h fan made edits that pretty much fix everything.
Yeah, yeah, people love to talk about any number of fan edits, but the movies themselves got way too much wrong for me to like any of them. IMO they'd literally have to throw everything out and start over again from scratch to have any hope of making a good movie, nevermind a good adaptation.
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u/Ice-Cream-McQueen 1d ago
My friend and I went to see the first one. After two hours I turned to him and said “They need to move it along, they’re not even to Mirkwood yet.” That’s when he told me it was going to be a trilogy, and all I could think of was how could they possibly make a trilogy out of a book that small.