• limonfiesta@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    There’s reason why this section of the book wasn’t adapted the first go around.

    So while I don’t doubt that Colbert is an LOTR super fan with excellent writing credentials, I have serious doubts that can make up for the deficiencies in the source material they are adapting.

    The Gollum movie looks like shit and The Hobbit movies were shit.

    If I were a betting man, I would wager that this movie will hue closer to the quality of The Hobbit adaptations than than to the original LOTR trilogy.

    Oh and making this a father-son nepo project doesn’t help boost my confidence either.

    • WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I’ll say it. The Hobbit movies are better than the book. Tons of fighting, no stupid weird Tom bomdewhatever. I read the book after the movies and lost my damn mind when Bilbo got knocked out for the entire final battle. How fucking dumb. How contrived.