Dragon Age: The veilguard reviews at 83 Opencritic/84 Metacritic.

[Chazore]

HoloDust said:

Mnementh said:

This is reality, before Peter Jacksons trilogy every attempt at adaptation was generally deemed bad. And the Hobbit trilogy is also generally marked as mediocre at best. This makes it so much more strange, that so many seem to be willing to defend that train wreck Rings of Power.

As someone who read LotR in early 80s, and only then watched Bakshi's '78 adaptation, I found it to be very good tonal representation of the books, no matter the limited running time and budgetary constrains of it. I actually prefer it to Jackson's, since, from my POV, gets more things right than wrong than Jackson's.

I grew up with the books and Bakshi's film myself (I like his other works, despite how scuffed they can come off as).

I don't think his Hobbit film was all that bad. Sure there were some dialogue choices that come off as meme worthy today, but back then it was alright for what it was. Also his film was more faithful, while Jakcson's was more focused on some romance aspects and a lot of action and less diplomacy/philosophy.

I only watched the first Peter Jackson Hobbit film btw. I tuned out because it didn't feel like it was going anywhere good.

Last edited by Chazore - on 01 November 2024