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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Sorry. I wasn't fishing for an apology. Honestly, I don't care.
Let me tell you about a little movie titled I, Robot...
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.
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. |
I mostly agree with your opinion re the Hobbit movies. Still, the Rings of Power is much worse. It's just bad. IMO, of course. Not only because it bears no resemblance whatsoever to Tolkien's characters.The plot, characters and dialogue are one big, old, tedious, moldy cliche. You practically know every word a character is going to say before they open their mouth. No originality, freshness or sparkle, none. A total yawnfest.