baumer Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 So The Hobbit-Movies are pretty much pulling a Twilight and while the former still has the label "disappointment" on it, the latter was a giant hit. But that's what you get, if you are the prequel to pretty much the greatest trilogy of all times. There's a huge difference. Twilight's budget were next to nothing in comparison to Hobbit. Even the last two films only had a budget of 125 mill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 The original trilogy takes 9 hours to have dwarves walk, and walk, and walk, and walk some more to drop a magical ring into some kind of volcano/firepit. On the way there they encounter dangerous creatures and treacherous weather. It has very little substance or psychological depth beyond a 6th grade level. I will admit that the series has good acting - especially from Ian McKellan, Christopher Lee, Viggo Mortensen, and Andy Serkis. They give effort 100% in their roles. But the good acting can only take you so far. Dwarves walking and walking forever and then arguing with each other repeatedly is not interesting after about 90 minutes. As much as the originals are enjoyable, this post is very true. It's a 9 hour walk to do something that the eagles could have taken care of in 30 minutes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 As much as the originals are enjoyable, this post is very true. It's a 9 hour walk to do something that the eagles could have taken care of in 30 minutes. There's an argument that Gandalf planned just that after Moria. However he got taken by the Balrog and instead only gave them a cryptic "Fly, you fools!" Which nobody understood. Hence the walking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
