Re: Most disappointing films.

In article <ambesj5kquo052k8ehg9nfduu7967q3bpj@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 10:23:19 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

Part 1 is mostly about the difficulties of adapting
The Hobbit to a film, including the critical error of
expanding from 2 to 3 films at the last moment,

>
In addition to the even more critical error of thinking it needed 2
films to begin with.
>
Rankin-Bass did it in 80 minutes. Adding Beorn back would have
stretched to ... maybe 90 minutes.

I will say, I thought they did a great job with Beorn.
He should be scary.

Many really critical errors, starting with the "Make this short
fairly light novel into an Epic Trilogy(TM) just like Lord
of the Rings itself" ... but I think the most destructive
individual error was having Sauron revealed to Gandalf.
This is so completely "some other universe" from the Lord of
the Rings, where Sauron's presence being unknown is a major
factor, that it almost seems like Jackson didn't read the
books, though he obviously did from the LotR movies.

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