The Hobbits

The Hobbit is a simple fairy tale written for kids. But the studio decided it needed to make a mini LOTR trilogy instead. They should have left well enough alone if they couldn't put it all in one movie. 2, maybe, but all that stuff about Gandalf and the Necromancer... rubbish.

I didn't even bother watching the last movie.

Those three movies are a perfect example of a few things:
-Greedy studio looking to stretch out a good one or two movie story to three in order to make more money.
-Greedy studio adding characters and story elements that never existed to; A) tie in beloved LOTR characters (Legolas), B) add a female hero to pander to woke feminism (Tauriel), C) add a love story because, well frick I don’t know.
-Gratuitous over use of CGI to the point that physics and believeability can just frick off

These shitass movies were a bigger disappointment to me than the Star Wars prequels and sequels.

Everything awesome about LOTR was mutated and exploited and overused to a ruinous end.

As much as I love Peter Jackson’s work on LOTR, you could tell by Return of the King that he was becoming too enamored with CGI and the super heroic, physics ignoring action scenes.

I own the LOTR series extended editions on DVD. Watched them straight through in a one day fantasy bonanza back in December. So great.

The Hobbit movies should be deleted from public knowledge and redone as a two part story that sticks to the fricking book.

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It’s not just the Hobbit either. See King Kong. I liked King Kong overall, but it’s one of the most exhausting movies out there... next to the Hobbits.

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The galloping sauropods was hard to watch. Physics of it alone was ridiculous. Then we saw that nonsense again in Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom.

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As much as I love Peter Jackson’s work on LOTR, you could tell by Return of the King that he was becoming too enamored with CGI and the super heroic, physics ignoring action scenes.

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I want to say Viggo has relayed the same sentiment. He absolutely loved filming the Fellowship scenes, they were smaller, on real sets and locations with real stunt work. But as the filming went on and they got to some of the Two Towers and especially the ROTK scenes he said he got sad with the amount of CGI Jackson started to use and become obsessed with.

So glad he tapped out of the Hobbits with the simple answer of “Aragorn wasn’t in the fricking Hobbit Peter.”

Peter still had to throw that gay arse line in there with Thranduil telling Legolas to go find him. Such an eye roll scene.

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This is one of Peter Jackson’s weaknesses as a filmmaker.

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It was not his decision to make it 3 movies. He took over after the original director quit. And then the movies were way underfunded and behind schedule and without a cohesive written ending. He had to shoot before there was even a fully finished script. He was there to salvage and people wrongly think it was his idea and fault.

In Peter Jackson's defense, the scale of events, the story did get ever larger from Fellowship to Return.

Smaller sets and real stunt work...less applicable for large battle scenes.

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If he thinks something works, he gives you too much of it, to the point of exhausting the viewer.

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Agree. He exhausts you in King Kong. They should have let Guillermo del Toro make it; my guess is he pushed back too much on the studio bullshite and got canned.

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he got sad with the amount of CGI Jackson started to use and become obsessed with.

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CGI gives the director so much control. I can see why someone would like the idea of cgi, instead of working with actors and production crews, but god in heaven ...

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He absolutely loved filming the Fellowship scenes, they were smaller, on real sets and locations with real stunt work.

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And it's the best movie because of that.

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Smaug scenes

Gollum scene

The only redeeming things from those movies, IMO

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Those were well done but so was the Unexpected Party and scenes with the Spiders of Mirkwood