re: What One Thing Did Peter Jackson Get Most Wrong? (LotR or Hobbit)

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had very few redeeming qualities.

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I'll have to disagree here a little. I thought the change of the story regarding the importance of the Arkenstone was well done. In the original book, there wasn't any motivation for it's retrieval other than it was valuable. The movie gave it a more meaningful purpose worthy of Bilbo trying to retrieve it.

Secondly, the backstory of the Necromancer. This was also well done and helps frame the conflict coming in Lord of the Rings.

I thought they really screwed up with Beorn and Azog. Diminished Beorn and created an unnecessary plot line with Azog.

I really wish they would revisit this story and do it right without the comic relief, shitty CGI, and shorten it to two movies without the Azog, Tauriel and dwarf love story, the Great Goblin story, Radaghast without bird shite on his head, fricking Alfrid, and the elves who never run out of arrows and kill millions of orcs without getting a scratch.


Yes, I was very invested in this movie. The Hobbit is one of my favorite books.