I still can’t stop but think how stretched out the Hobbit films were, for an otherwise short book. That’s a sin that stains forever with me. The Lord of the Rings films, do have their own flaws, but they’re fairly contained and can be debated as to whether they were good or not. I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though.

And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion. Simply because, there will be so much improvised fluff in that would-be film, that it’d make the Hobbit films blush.

  • sqauffle@slrpnk.net
    223·
    4 days ago

    Battlestar Galactica, and any other time the writers are just writing down the rabbit hole without having any clue what story they’re going to tell. The writers of Battlestar introduced one mystery after another and worked to sell the audience on the belief that they were going somewhere good with all this. They had jack shit and I’m not getting that time back.

    Some other offenders:

    Star Wars sequels: how the fuck did that get greenlit for like a billion dollars without any living soul knowing what the plot was gonna be

    Mulholland Drive: fuck you David Lynch, explain this shit or GTFO. If I want dream logic I’ll go to sleep

    Lost: J J Abrams you spoiled little rich kid fuckass

    Times that didn’t happen:

    Andor: just an adamantine brick shithouse of storytelling

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 days ago

      OMG, Lost! That show sucked and yet so many people I knew loved it. I wondered if it was sunk cost cause the first two seasons were captivating. The rest of the series just dragged on.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        2·
        3 days ago

        i think it was the music by bear mcreary and his brother, wife. ron moores obsession with no lasers, no high tech , unexplained tech of the cylons, like thier ressurection , ftl travel. Also having the NVIXM chick, cally in the show, everyone knews he was a cringe actor/characther even before all the news came out about her.

      • noahm@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Lost and Battlestar Galactica aired approximately in parallel. Being a sci-fi fan, I watched BSG, of course, but many friends watched Lost. It definitely had more mainstream appeal and a higher profile. But from the sounds of things, it really lived up to its name! I’ve always been glad I got into BSG, even if it also went off course for a while.

        IIRC BSG got screwed in part by the Hollywood writers’ strike. Did that impact Lost as well?