Noria
Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Apr 11 2020, 1:03pm
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I happen to have rewatched TH trilogy a couple of months ago and if anything, love them more now and have a greater appreciation of both their exuberance and their pathos. So congratulations to the film makers on their achievement five years later.
I’m old and five years is not that long to me so it’s not surprising that my views haven’t changed that much since DOS was released. Nor has my life changed that much – I just keep getting older. 
Paolo, you said on another thread that as a Hobbit movie lover you sometimes get angry debating with those who dislike TH trilogy. It’s not worth it.
Just remember that many Hobbit movie haters simply didn’t get the adaptation of The Hobbit that they wanted to see and thus are disappointed, sometimes bitterly. It’s actually kind of sad because all of us are lovers of Tolkien’s books. Others have technical complaints about the films as films, like the use of CGI, and they’re entitled to that opinion. Some haters are obnoxious about it, sinking to elitism, intellectual snobbery and personal attacks on the film makers, but it’s not worth getting angry. After all, despite lukewarm critical reception, the Hobbit movies were massively successful commercially which indicates that a great number of people enjoyed them. We lovers of TH movies are the lucky ones.
The same applies to the LotR movies, but there the haters are up against huge critical as well as popular success and a cultural phenomenon.
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So...5 years after BOTFA.
