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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I disagree with The Hobbit working as three great movies.
I had no problem with changes to LOTR. But The Hobbit felt like a victim of LOTR's success.
Jackson had trouble for years getting approval for LOTR. At the time, multi-part movies were a rarity and a risky gamble. Producers kept pressuring him to try to whittle the story down to a single movie.
By the time The Hobbit went on to production, the landscape had changed and I believe there was pressure to expand The Hobbit into a trilogy.
That book should have been a single movie, or maybe two short movies. To expand the book to a trilogy they had to add so much extraneous stuff that you wouldn't be blamed for forgetting who Bilbo was.
The Hobbit is a childhood favorite and I was a Peter Jackson fan well before LOTR. Those first three movies were amazing. But I've never managed to get through all three Hobbit movies.
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I found the Hobbit movies enjoyable, but they really had very little to do with the book, which was more of a children's book and very light hearted. I agree that they likely expanded it out just for the money potential.