re: thoughts on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy

I enjoyed them, but thought they were pretty stupid a lot of times. And at times it definitely felt like they were trying to drag two movies into three, and it lacked because of that.

But to be honest, that wouldn't have bothered me if it wasn't so overly cartoonish. And I don't just mean overused CGI (which there was anyway). But just how literally the movie looked like a cartoon too often. And this plays into it:

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The lack of physics was insulting. Insulting.

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The whole scene with them in the mountain (mines?) with the goblins was so hilariously bad. I can suspend belief a good bit when it comes to movies like this, but the "falling from thousands of feet and landing softly on the ground" or "hopping from this to that while flying down the river" type stuff is insulting even for someone trying to suspend belief.

And I think it's very fair to compare them to LotR. At the very least in terms of Peter Jackson's capacity to make good movies that don't overly look like trash. The LotR trilogy is my #1 trilogy of all time. Hobbit is straight garbage in a lot of places.

All that being said though, I still thought it was enjoyable enough of a story to like it well enough.