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Originally Posted by captveg
I just find Ellis' thesis to be unfounded. She essentially believes Jackson hates the Hobbit films and that he was being tortured by WB and enslaved to make them. It's absurd.
To me, the fundamental problem with the Hobbit is that it is called the Hobbit. It implies that is the lone source being adapted, when that is not the case. It invites that criticism. If it had been called "The Hobbit and Several Middle Earth Appendices" people would judge it for being an adaption of several sources. But that's a terrible title.
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And that’s exactly what people don’t
get. Now this obviously doesn’t apply to EVERYone but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that when people heard that this was going to be a trilogy (or, hell, even two movies originally) they already had it set in their minds that they wouldn’t like these movies or that these wouldn’t be good movies. And when you go into ANYthing with that kind of mindset, any flaw is going to seem way bigger than it is. Or they’re not going to see how something DOES work and only focus on what doesn’t.
And people like this Ellis girl making content like that and getting rewarded for it just breeds more negativity. Lord knows the movies aren’t perfect (in my opinion, Fellowship of the Ring is the only one that comes close
) but I hate how it’s the fad to automatically dismiss them too.