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Why was the hobbit not as good?
Easter eggs and callbacks to The Lord of the Rings were shamelessly forced into the unnecessary subplots of The Hobbit. The Hobbit falls into the pitfalls of the prequel by focusing too much on the past and not enough on telling its own stories. As the original, The Lord of the Rings didn’t have any of those problems.
Why did Peter Jackson change so much of The Hobbit?
Q: Why Did Peter Jackson Change The Hobbit? To cover each of the episodes in the book would in fact take up a lot of screen time, and I think at some point Peter realized that he really needed to follow the book more faithfully than he might have originally intended.
Is it better to watch The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings first?
Watch The Hobbit trilogy in the chronological order, then watch The Lord of The Rings in the chronological order. The Hobbit series is prequel to The Lord of The Rings. Even the story of first Lord of The Rings movie literally continues the ending of the last Hobbit movie.
Is Lord of the Rings better than The Hobbit?
There are two ways to analyze them: as standalone films and as adaptations of other works. As films, the Lord of the Rings easily beats out the Hobbit. As adaptations, the Hobbit movies just barely edge out the LotR movies.
Was The Hobbit a failure?
The artistic failure of The Hobbit is one of the great tragedies of modern cinema. After the huge success of Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, the world was expecting something far grander than the tired and bloated fanfic we ended up with.
Why didn’t Gandalf know Bilbo had the Ring?
Gandalf didn’t begin to suspect it was the One Ring until he saw that Bilbo both wasn’t noticeably aging even after years and decades and was obviously obsessed with the Ring as if by magical compulsion. He knew for sure only once the Ring was tested in the hearth at Bagend revealing the writing on it.
How many Hobbit movies are there?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug2013The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014
The Hobbit/Movies
The three films are The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).
Why does The Hobbit have to be three movies?
Peter Jackson explains why ‘The Hobbit’ has to be three movies. Hypable attended The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug press day during which director Peter Jackson explained the need to cut the story into three films. Those who’ve followed the production of the series know that plans for The Hobbit originally called for two movies,…
Why was The Hobbit so hard to make?
In a documentary that appeared as a bonus feature on the home media release of The Hobbit, the celebrated director and his crew revealed that a disorganized production and a lack of planning time after taking over from del Toro played a part in turning the 300-odd page novel into a trilogy of movies.
Why was ‘The Hobbit’ split into three parts?
Jackson, however, claims that the idea to split The Hobbit into three parts came from him alone, with the director wanting Bilbo’s story to not feel any less epic in scale compared to his original Lord of the Rings trilogy and proposing the adaptation of Tolkien’s appendices and wider notes.
What went wrong with Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy?
The situation was very different on The Hobbit, with Jackson himself bemoaning the lack of time he was given to produce a whole new trilogy. The director claims that after taking over from del Toro, he was thrust right into filming, with zero time or space for pre-production, leaving him to arrange shots and rewrite scenes on the fly.