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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The great fear that many have is Hollywood taking the next step and makes the Tolkien universe more like GOT, i.e. adds a whole lot of sex and gore. I suppose that could happen, but I suspect it will be more like The Hobbit movie, i.e. moving more and more away from the original source material, much like the Bond movies did. I suspect that if the Aragon/LOTR prequel does well for Amazon, we might very see that.
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The Hobbit movies were awful. I loved Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and was really looking forward to his take on The Hobbit.
Unfortunately, those movies had the baggage of following the success of The Lord of the Rings. The studio became more involved, demanding what was intended to be two movies instead be padded out to three. There's also too many awkward callbacks to LOTR characters that feel intrusive.
I watched the first one, thought it would get better and watched the second one. I never bothered watching the third one.
Think of me what you will, but the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit adaptation was truer in spirit and tone to the book than the recent trilogy was.