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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I just felt like the Petey Jackson Hobbit movies were a mess as movies. He went too over the top with CG characters bouncing around and everything felt too amped-up. The storm giants and the barrel ride for instance.
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Yep. Forget comparisons to the book; the movies were a mess on their own merits. I'm perfectly capable (and willing) to allow adaptations to deviate from their subject matter. But they still have to stand up on their own. I don't give bad adaptations free passes just because the original was special to me. Jackson's Hobbit was just off the rails nonsense. I'd have been been ecstatic had the movies been completely different from the original AND great. But they weren't. I couldn't even bring myself to finish the movie "trilogy".