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Kathleen asked this question about The Hobbit, or There and Back Again:
Who else here was disappointed in the hobbit movies? I thought there was too much CGI and it strayed to much from the book. Reply if you think so too! :)
Cassandra I hated The Hobbit movies. HATED.

The ludicrous goblin king so rolling in fat he couldn't be menacing and belting out songs in a beautifully clear voic…moreI hated The Hobbit movies. HATED.

The ludicrous goblin king so rolling in fat he couldn't be menacing and belting out songs in a beautifully clear voice befitting a stage musical star. The cross-dressing mayor or whatever he was. A powerful, demigod wizard whose hair was coated with bird droppings. One of Thorin's dwarf warriors wielding a slingshot. Another with an axe imbedded in his skull through most of the movie. A gorgeous elf warrior falling for a rude hobbit because he made a joke about his genitalia. She was only there because Peter Jackson promised Evangeline Lilly a role in the films and then realized there weren't any female characters of note in The Hobbit.

Peter Jackson had an excellent design for dwarves and their architecture. This wonderful design was preserved in the opening scenes of The Hobbit. Then he threw out the baby and borrowed some bathwater and made Thorin's followers goofy comic relief that no one could ever take seriously. The only reason to insert Legolas into the story is that Orlando Bloom was so popular in the role.

Peter Jackson took a charming adventure story for children and turned it into a vile, crude, crass, slapstick farce occasionally peppered with serious moments ripped from The Silmarillion. He might as well have filmed nine hours of fart jokes. I realize that books have to be adapted for the different medium when they are made into movies, but if he had so little respect for the story as it was written, he should have picked a different story to adapt.

It didn't even have decent action in it. I cringed when I saw those people riding a river of molten gold without so much as breaking a sweat, but then it was enough to take down a fire-breathing dragon?!

The entire trio was just a travesty. Anyone who hasn't seen the movies yet should spare himself.(less)
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by J.R.R. Tolkien
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