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Originally Posted by rcentros
Okay, I'll apologize again.
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Sorry. I wasn't fishing for an apology. Honestly, I don't care.
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I don't understand why Amazon paid about $250 million dollars for the rights to Tolkien's work and then (besides using the names) completely changed the characters. They could have just come up with their own fantasy story (since they lost the Tolkien fans anyhow).
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Let me tell you about a little movie titled
I, Robot...
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I didn't watch it, just saw some of the scenes in the reviews.
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I will say, you should watch the show before slagging it. I personally think the Transformers movies look abysmal, But I don't go around dumping on them because I haven't watched any of them.
I grumble about The Hobbit movies, but buddy, I sat through all three of those bombs.
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...I didn't mind the Hobbit trilogy as much as some, but they did stretch it out too long.
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I must question your taste.
On the one hand, the movies barely worked as an adaptation. They had none of the feel of the book and even the story was buried under so many subplots and action scenes that it didn't feel like an adaptation of the book at all.
But then, The Shining is a brilliant movie that similarly doesn't follow the book.
The problem is The Hobbit movies are just bad movies. Likely due to the studio pushing for Lord of the Rings 2: Electric Bugaloo. But the movies were plodding and chock full of awkward cameos by all your favorite LOTR friends.
A story that would have made a great long movie or two good average movies was stretched out to three overlong action spectaculars. Battle scenes were amped up to the point where they looked embarrassing.
And because the dwarves couldn't be cowardly like they were in the book, they had to run around activating some gold river thingy. Ugh, I was looking at my watch and just wishing this final movie would end already.