The Hobbit: movies VS. the book

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Originally Posted by spider-neil

To me, LotR are movies to be enjoyed and savoured. The Hobbit movies are movies to be endured. I often fast forward to Gollum and the Dragon, the only moments in an entire trilogy that I enjoy.

I really hope one day the Hobbit movies are remade as one movie.

I agree with this. I think the tone is fundamentally wrong.

LOTR movies have a portentous tone.

He carried that over to the Hobbit for some reason.

I think again and again it needs to be stressed that the Hobbit is a very different beast from the LOTR. It has a different tone, a different pace, and a different focus. PJ essentially used the LOTR playbook wholesale and did not do anything new with the Hobbit movies.

Say what you will about the prequel movies in Star Wars, they are undeniably an entirely separate beast from the OT. Lucas created a new look, new grammar, no method storytelling, new focus, everything.

PJ did not show a lot of imagination and did the same thing again as he did in LOTR.