Unexpected Journey comes in and it's perfection, the comfy child-like adventure film filled with heart, wonder and imagination. It's got music numbers, it's got funny characters, it's got fucking everything. It's even got a credits song that's somehow better than anything in the LOTR movies. Song of the Lonely Mountain perfectly encapsulates the feeling of going in an adventure in way that can't be described, only felt through the song. It's perfection, much like the movie. Going into part 2, Jackson and co had everything ready for a perfect sequel. The original already captures the feeling of the story, so they should know how to continue this shit, right?
FUCK NO, HERE'S PART 2 Hey, it starts kinda good, the scene with the spiders is top notch. But everything from when they get into the elf place is shit. The barrel escape, which should be a great fucking scene, is pure shit. The city? Pure trash. Smaug and Bilbo? Literally the only good thing and it gets mushed by the avalanche of shit that is the dwarves' escape. AND THEN IT END WE GET THIS FAGGY-ASS SONG ABOUT DESTRUCTION AND SHIT FUCK OFF.
Fuck this film to death, it ruined any good potential this trilogy had and killed a wonderful little story. Don't even get me started on fucking part 3 that turns into pure schlock. Last Goodbye is legit the GOAT and Bilbo's goodbye to the Dwarves is touching. But that's all this fucking film gets FUCK NEW LINE AND FUCK MGM
Which fan edit did you watch? Because the theatrical release was an absolute mess.
Evan Morales
Only should have been one movie, companies saw the attachment to Lord of the Rings and the money making potential and strongarmed Jackson into making movies he didn't wanna do
Lucas Bennett
are there any good edits of these movies? I heard there was one that cut out most of the garbage and condensed the trilogy into 1 decent movie
Jose Harris
>Which fan edit did you watch? Because the theatrical release was an absolute mess. This. From the first meting with the dwarves you know the movie will be 2 different ones, with 2 different tones, fused in a single Franken-movie.
Dylan Long
The Maple edit is the main one, and yeah they actually turned it into a decent film. It removes almost everything derided about the films with the exception of some of the bad CGI and you barely notice. In particular BOTFA is cut to pieces and it’s literally never once jarring.
Dominic Hall
>Not liking I See Fire song
shit taste confirmed
Carter Torres
>ITT: HOW DID THEY FUCK IT UP? HOW.
>Relied too heavily on CGI >Rushed production >Invented unnecessary characters (Radagast, Tauriel, White Orc, Laketown Jew) >Added unnecessary love triangle >Legolas should have been a cameo and nothing more >Showing Gandolf's wizard business, everything with the wizards and galadriel and sauron should have been DVD bonus scenes >Whacky cartoon action fights >Dwelling on the Battle of 5 Armies. The battle in the book is a page and a half long. The movie adaptation should be similarly brief. Bilbo gets knocked out and the battle is told in flashback.
Nathan Smith
>unexpected journey >perfection
Logan Diaz
Six months for pre-production compared to the years that Lord of the Rings had. And during that six months they had to start over from scratch at least once.
It was never going to be entirely good unless they scaled it way way down, which the studio would probably never have let Jackson do.
Carter Parker
thanks user, Ill check that out
Easton Richardson
i think the studios were just greedy with the hobbit...
lotr = 3 books = 3 movies hobbit = 1 small book = 3 movies
What?!?!
First sign it was going to be shit was when del toro left and they got jackson back
Blake Ross
>It's even got a credits song that's somehow better than anything in the LOTR movies.
kys
James Bennett
it should of and could of been one film its all garbage
Alexander Thompson
Daily reminder that Peter Jackson outdid LOTR considering the conditions he was under youtu.be/SQkygZdZ_Vk
2 weeks (with a third movie added by the studio while shooting the second film) versus 3 years of pre-production for a planned trilogy
Brandon Collins
I actually really like the whole trilogy.
Lotr was better though. Much better. The amount of effort put into each of the lotr films was astounding.
Now they can just push a movie out each year.
Lincoln Jones
>It's even got a credits song that's somehow better than anything in the LOTR movies.
kys
Joshua Clark
lotr was actually 6 books
Julian Stewart
???? I assume you're not English? It's definitely three.
Fellowship Two Towers Return of the King
Jonathan Gonzalez
Technically it is 6. Each of the 3 is in 2 parts.
Lucas Jones
sliders
Henry Moore
Quick reminder
Mason James
WB panicked with GDT's vision and got greedy, wanting to do 3 movies. They gave it to Jackson and in exchange probably told him you can do whatever you want. With George Lucas power, he fully indulged himself and went bonkers.
Asher Phillips
>forgettable soundtrack the hobbit trilogy has many flaws. Music is not one of them
Logan Brooks
>>Added unnecessary love triangle
How else would they have forced le kick ass chick into the narrative you fucking bigot? I bet you h8 the fact that a she elf had to be seen as a competent warrior, as good as any mythological creature!
Justin Scott
>HOW DID THEY FUCK IT UP? HOW. It was only supposed to be 2 movies but ended up being stretched over 3 because studio wanted dem $$$
that and some questionable choices in terms of story direction (legolas should have been a cameo at most and that retarded dwarf elf love thing was just fucking shit house) as well as some ill advised stylistic decisions (newtonian physiwcs dont apply to legolas apparently)
