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.

  • wraekscadu@vargar.org
    111·
    11 hours ago

    Star wars. I just have such a love/frustration relationship with it. This includes stuff produced by George Lucas btw.

    I feel like it tries to appease all crowds. The family friendly crowd, the autistic nerdy crowd, the politics obsessed crowd and so on.

    Andor for example is peak star wars, because it’s made specifically for one audience. No one’s taking their 6yo to watch this.

    The problem is when a kids’ show has the prerequisite plot for a show with a totally different audience.

    Take the clone wars for example. It started as nothing more than a kids’ show. Then, it ended dark. Same with rebels. Look at episode 3. Amazing amazing plot with the transformation of the Republic into the empire. And then you have jar jar binks.

    Let’s not even begin to talk about Disney.

    Star wars just has so much potential due to its huge world and the Jedi/sith stuff. But it’s just so frustrating to see how such art can be wounded by the will to earn money.

    I know this isn’t “the most unforgivable sin” or whatever, but I suppose it’s definitely up there. It’s the sin of painting an angry face emoji on top of a beautiful and detailed painting of an unimaginabley cruel monster, just so that more toys can be sold.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      5·
      7 hours ago

      The biggest problem with Star wars is how each subsequent movie keeps inventing bigger bigger lasers to destroy more and more planets. It’s as if they can’t think of anything else.

      In the last movie the first order destroyed multiple planets in one shot, despite the fact that they supposed to be this scrappy little fighting force that’s all that’s left of the empire. They’re supposed to be terrorists or something and yet they have technology that can rival the empire at its peak. How’s that supposed to work?