| Veknoid_Outcast said: I agree that the LOTR trilogy was great and The Hobbit was mediocre at best, but I think it had everything to do with the screenplay and the overuse of digital effects. The script was stuffed with extraneous material that destroyed the pacing of the movie, and the digital effects made The Hobbit look like an animated movie. |
More fitting with the Hobbit's tone, really. If anything, Jackson is trying to inject *too* much heavy shit in there, whereas the original novel really only got sentimental right at the end with the death of Thorin, Fili, and Kili. The matter of dividing the treasure was also handled as a serious matter, but for the most part the Hobbit was something of a lighthearted romp through middle earth, which Jackson is now weighing down by throwing in too much of the fight against the Necromancer (along with bringing the rise of the Necromancer, and the turning of Greenwood into Mirkwood, ahead by over 1900 *years*, and by making the Witch King actually dead in order to justify the name Necromancer, which totally beats the whole point of having Eowyn kill him in Return).
The problem with The Hobbit is that Jackson is simultaneously making it into a big LotR fan-wank project, and yet making far more egregious changes to the mythology than any of the minor, understandable tweaks brought into the LotR trilogy
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