What when wrong?

Yesterday

Peter Jackson phoned it in.

Have talked to people on the production and yeah, apparently PJ, as they call him, would just turn up randomly say things needed to be re done without any guidance as to how and then fuck off again only to come back randomly at some later date to say that it was all wrong again. He issued an apology to staff for his behavior but is apparently still doing the same thing with his current projects.

>>79337282
Tauriel, surfing down molten gold river

>>79337282
Nothing. Hobbit trilogy is FAR more artistically expressive than Lotr.

the most major thing that went wrong was the excessive use of CGI over practical effects

mainly looking at the orcs on this one
it felt almost too fantasitcal (not in a good way) and it was totally immmersion breaking

see: any scene involving legolas

They made a trilogy out of a book shorter than any of the three LOTR installments

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>>79337282
All three movies were incredibly boring, with a few good sequences. Never needed to be a trilogy.

>>79337505
I'm gonna disagree. The Hobbit was rushed, but it wasn't Hackson's fault entirely. Del Toro bailed and the studio were being ultra jews. They were forced into doing 3D by the studio so they couldn't do the forced perspective shenanigans.

LoTR was a passion project that had years of pre-production, so they copy pasted instead of doing 40 guys in costumes with a background of CGI models. The studio was ironically a bigger jew than Smaug.

>>79337660
Agreed. One of the most memorable scenes in LOTR was the orc river crossing in Gondor. Looked great and intimating using actual actors in cosmetics.

>>79337282

From a story perspective, they made the mistake of lowering the stakes.

Think about it. What was the overarching goal of the protagonists in the LotR trilogy? To destroy the One Ring and stop Sauron's armies from conquering Middle Earth. The whole world was at stake.

Then we get to the Hobbit trilogy. What is the overarching goal of the main characters? To get back some gold from a dragon. Not really as epic or noble a quest.

You always want to up the stakes in a story. Going from saving the world to fighting over a mound of gold just seems frivolous by comparison.