Hasuwandil
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Nov 27 2020, 5:27pm
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I'm not sure I see the point of this argument. You may be of the opinion that Pee-wee's Big Adventure is the greatest movie ever made. Someone else may refuse to watch it because they saw it once when they were little and got frightened during a certain scene. Their refusal to agree with you doesn't by itself invalidate your opinion, but it's probably pointless for you to try to convince them of your rightness.
But anyway, if you need a larger data set, I'm at your service:
I wasn't very aware of the Hobbit movies before they came out. I don't think I was even aware that Guillermo del Toro had been the director at one point. The main thing I was aware of was that it was going to be three movies. So I was almost completely unbiased (or rather, favorably inclined) with the exception that I was skeptical of the idea of stretching The Hobbit out into three feature films. That skepticism has remain unchanged.
I rather enjoyed the first film at first, but I did have a few issues with it. The beginning felt a little too drawn out, and I didn't see why Frodo had to be in it. Watching it again recently, perhaps my impression was overstated, but I still do think it starts a bit slow.
I didn't care for the design of the thirteen Dwarves. Their clothing seemed fairly nondescript, yet some of them had outlandish hairstyles, and one had an axe embedded in his skull for no apparent reason. I didn't care for Radagest, either. He seemed more like a cartoon character than a wizard who might belong in Middle-earth.
I didn't have a problem with Tauriel per se, but when I realized that there was going to be a romantic subplot between her and a Dwarf, I found that highly improbable.
I didn't care for Alfrid, and felt like he was lazily written and pointless.
I thought it made sense for Legolas to show up, but felt he was way overused in a movie series that's supposed to be about a Hobbit and some Dwarves.
Many of those opinions may be described as "book purism", and maybe they are, but I just wasn't as won over by PJ's efforts with the Hobbit films as I was with his LOTR films, though I did have a few quibbles with those as well.
I did watch all three films the theater, but I didn't get them on DVD, and have only watched them again once recently. I may watch them again, but they're not among my favorites. I don't think I read about Jackson saying he was "winging it" until the last year or two, so I don't think that could have had any effect on my opinion.
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(This post was edited by Hasuwandil on Nov 27 2020, 5:29pm)
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