Movie Review: The Hobbit - Part 3

[hrj]

Hollywood, we have to talk. Someone needs to take away Peter Jackson's carte blanche and put a grownup in charge of his projects until he's demonstrated that he's responsible enough to be given the keys again. Hobbit 3 was a complete snoozefest, filled with endless massed CGI battles and sword-porn, self-inflicted man-pain and synthetic emotion, some wildly inappropriate slapstick party tricks, and not a scrap of salvageable plot or genuine characterization. I re-watch a lot of movies -- I generally run through the entire extended edition LOTR a couple times a year. But I cannot imagine ever voluntarily watching Hobbit 3 a second time in the entirety of my natural life. In fact, it's a wonder I didn't claw my eyes out in the theater to avoid having to complete the first watching. I suggest that Jackson turn his talents to creating hack-and-slash video games. It's clearly his preferred genre.

Comments

[zeborah]

The idea of splitting the Hobbit into three films was so ridiculous to me that all I've seen of any of them was the trailer for part 3. It took me a while to realise what it was meant to be, and then I spent the rest of the trailer trying to figure out if any of this had ever happened in the book in any form whatsoever. (Until finally Bilbo put the ring on. I recognised that bit.)

Friends invited me to attend with them. I declined.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

The silly thing is, if you stripped out all the pointless set-piece battles, you probably could take it down to one movie's worth.