Quote (IgoSoHard @ Jul 29 2022 11:40am)
I’m a huge fan of the source material, having read the Lord of the Rings / Hobbit / Silmarillion several times each. I love it. So I’m extremely excited for a new series showing the badass events of the 2nd age, however I’m acutely aware of how easily they could F it all up, so I’m cautiously optimistic.
There’s multiple reasons. The main one, imho, is that they took the story from the hobbit, which is only 1 book, & stretched it out over 3 different movies. Compared to the Lord of the Rings, where they made 1 movie for every book that there is. This resulted in them taking liberties with the source material, & stretching & or adding things that weren’t in the actual book. That’s one of the reasons why the pacing is really clunky or slow in some parts. They had to make it up. For example, Legolas is not in the Hobbit book at all, in any capacity, & yet he has a prominent role in all 3 hobbit movies. At least Legolas is an actual character though. Unlike Tauriel, the female elf they literally created out of thin air to be Legolas & Kili the dwarves love-interest.
Another thing a lot of people disliked was the decision to use digital effects instead of practical ones. Unlike in the LotR movies where the orcs were actual people in costumes, the orcs in the hobbit were entirely CGI, & you could tell. Speaking of Orcs, remember the huge, pale orc who had a spear as one arm, who they sorta made the defacto villain ? He’s literally only mentioned in one throw away line in the hobbit, but they gave him an entire arc in the movies.
Now with that being said, some of the liberties they took…actually worked out & turned out dope af. For example, there’s a scene in the 3rd hobbit movie where the white council, Saruman, Galadriel, Elrond & Radaghast rescue Gandalf from Dol Guldur where Sauron was keeping him prisoner. That scene is definitely not in the hobbit or any other book for that matter. However it does happen during that time period so they decided to add it to the film, & it was dope.
I really disliked them when they came out, however I recently gave it all a re-watch & actually enjoyed them for what they are, despite the flaws
I just watched all 3 Hobbits this past weekend in preparation for this show.
I had seen the first two before but not the 3rd.
I did enjoy them overall but definitely not on par with the original trilogy. Some parts seemed very unnecessary and forced, the whole Tauriel storyline probably being the worst of all.
And like, why didn't the Eagles just drop them off closer to the mountain... would have skipped the entire lake-town part (which was also a low point IMO; I didn't care about that guy or his family).
Lastly, retarded decision to end the dragon storyline in the first 10 minutes of the 3rd movie instead of just ending it in the 2nd movie where it belonged... it's a movie not an episodic show where you use a cliffhanger.
This post was edited by LuLer on Aug 29 2022 12:02pm