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Originally Posted by drofgnal
Yes, they were bad movies. Peter Jackson milking the franchise for all he can. It was rather shameful. LOTR, he did an outstanding job on, The Hobbit, not so much. The whole Hobbit could have been one 3 hour movie and been well done, while sticking to the original book. It they would have been a good companion to the LOTR.
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The animated version of the The Hobbit was much closer to the original book. The basic issue is that The Hobbit is a children's book. While the Tolkien purists might really go for a version of the Hobbit that stuck to the book, it would die in the box office.
The history of the making of The Hobbit movies is actually very long and complex. I don't think that one can blame Jackson's greed for how the movies turned out.