I think it's bad, really bad. With hobbit they had to create many scenes so they could fill 3 movies, while some scenes were a nice addtion, many were just to fill screen time and appeal to younger audiences.The 3rd movie has no reason to exist... They made the entire lord of rings trilogy with just one movie per book, and each book was quite thicker than The Hobbit, and it ended up great.

Mockingjay, really, i don't even know how to start saying how i hate the splitting. The book is really small, it almost didn't have material for one movie, and than they came with 2. The first one just sucks, it's slow paced while the book is really fast paced, and lose a lot of time showing things really boring, like the search for prim cat that took almost 20 minutes.

Harry Potter 7 was somehow excusable, the first movie is slow paced as fuck, but it was good the way it was, and it just followed the first part of the book, taking a problem of the book to the big screen, and second movie was good.

Well, Breaking Dawn just suck, won't bother talking about it. Just saying the imaginary battle scene was better than anything in the series.

I think bookreaders that go to cinema know they shouldn't expect a live action full read of the book they read, but instead a re-imagination of the source material, the movie is a piece of media in itself, the directors should and need to translate that to the cinema, and it includes cutting and editing a lot of it.

But this trend is here to stay, box office shows, just hope it fades away soon.

Im not a fan of watching 9-11 hour(s) long movies, in one go.
Im fine with them splitting them up, and I want them to stay as true to the books as possible for books like these.

Generally, it's just movie studios being greedy. I find it very irritating.

I think it's forgiveable if the book is as long and complex as Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire (as that needs 10 hours per book), but I can't think of a multi-movie adaptation of a single book that didn't feel like a cash grab.

Depends a bit on the book. A doorstopper like Dune does really need it unless you cut most of it's content like in the David Lynch adaption. But most movies in the last years coming as 2-parters really didn't need it, it just added lots of padding and milking the fans twice for something they easely could have done in one film.

I find it ridiculous unless its a massive amount of content to cover.

I actually enjoyed The Hobbit part 1 the most, and somewhat enjoyed part 2.

Although part 3 was just plain bad imo.

But yes, splitting up a book into multiple movies is nothing more than a cash grab, although there have been some good movies with little filler.

i think slitting up the hobbit was a good idea, but they shouldnt have gone for 3 movies.

I really like the idea as long as there's enough material. Harry Potter did it perfectly, as I felt we got two great movies out of it. The first of the two Hunger Games ones is a little light, but I still enjoy the characters and overall filmmaking enough to have enjoyed it. I haven't seen all the Hobbit movies but it sound like that was only a bad idea.

If it's done well it gives us a chance to 1) see a more complete vision of the book and 2) just plain get more awesome movies. It's a cash grab for sure, but not necessarily a bad one in my opinion.

Most of these books weren't necessary, but they realized they could do it after they did it with Harry Potter.

Most books where this happens are already shallow casual-bait as it is so it's fairly clear that it's entirely for money when it does happen. It's one of the main reasons I barely support the film industry anymore. I'm just glad Sonic & Knuckles was the only time s game really did this split release mentality because if publishers did it today I wouldn't know what to do anymore. (And I'm talking full releases, I know that DLC can be close to this in some cases.)

Avengers doing it pisses me off the most because it's not even gonna be the end of the Marvel CU. I know that's not a book to movie example but for Christ's sake, they already release 2.5 movies a year that gross nearly a billion dollars each. There's no reason to end Wave 3 with two staggered releases JUST to try and get Avengers 3.5 to be the biggest movie ever for bragging rights.