(This one seems a little familiar, but I can’t recall if I’ve seen it here. Sorry if repost)

  • JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I have been rewatching some franchise media that got bad receptions (new star trek movies, matrix reloaded, The Phantom Menace) and I have been feeling a lot more charitable to these works than I was the first time.

    In this spirit I watched The Hobbit again and it is truly awful.

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      I seem to recall there being a pretty good fan edit that condensed it down into one long movie and cut out all the unnecessary love triangle stuff.

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      Reloaded was well liked. Revolutions was widely panned. I also rewatched them both recently (all four plus the Animatrix in order, actually) and I found that I liked them more on rewatch, a couple decades later, than I did initially.

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      I recommend giving the X Man Series another try. I recently did and it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. The original timeline just feel like perfect cheap action movies from the 2000s. Brought me back to my childhood. Same with the “Unbreakable Trilogy”

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    When she’s crying over her dead dwarf:

    “why does it hurt so much?”

    “Because it was REAL!”

    Has to be one of the worst, cheesiest and badly acted interactions in movie history, it’s up there with all the romance scenes in the star wars prequels. I cackled when I first heard it

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    2 months ago

    Is this the hobbit? I stopped watching after the first one betrayed young me so badly.

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      Their worst sin in my opinion is actually how they split off the end of the Smaug storyline to be resolved in, like, the first five minutes of the third movie (literally before the title) rather than resolving it in the second movie. Huge pacing mistake.

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        2 months ago

        WHAT? Like, I know that the battle and stuff does happen after Smaug, so he’s not the final event of the book like you’d think, but I can’t imagine jumping into the third movie for a weirdly quick pay-off and then watching them drag out the battle for basically an entire movie.

        God the more I know about these movies the happier I am in my choice to just cherish the book on its own.

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        2 months ago

        There are plenty of huge errors in these movies, but the pacing of Smaug’s demise was one of the better deviations.

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      2 months ago

      I recommend watching the third one, not because it is a good movie, but because it is a hilarious movie.

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      2 months ago

      That’s the right way to do it.

      Some people have to keep watching so they can get mad, and make people who like it feel bad.