The LotR Trilogy are my all time favorite movies and the contrast couldn't be greater. Really goes to show what a perfect storm it was that we got the movies we got with LotR.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a fan cut out there on the high seas, where they basically condensed those three shitty movies into one which follows the book as close as possible. That one is bearable and as far as I am concerned the official Hobbit movie now.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any links to movie or group

[–] kossa@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm more of a usenet sailor, but the Pirate Bay seems to have "The Hobbit M4 Book Edit" available. It seems to be the most liked edit, although it is rather long, there are shorter ones available (see the linked post).

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Awesome, I haven't heard of this before! I'm trying to download it via torrent from their website but it seems like it has zero seeds though 😭

[–] Ihnivid@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a direct download for the m4 version on the internet archive.

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

aha! tysm!

Edit: Also found the subs and other related files

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Omg yes. The Hobbit movies were so terrible.

[–] golli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imo worse than just them being bad is the gap between their quality and the potential of what could have been.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely and factor who made them.

[–] golli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

True. Although to his defense my understanding is that Peter Jackson came in late as a replacement and at least partially did it because otherswise many people would have been out of a job (presumably people in new Zealand that he knew well). Watching the behind the scenes extras imo show a quite stark contrast compared to the LotR trilogy.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem with the Hobbit movies was that they were too much like the Lord of the Rings movies.

[–] golli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe in the sense that they were aiming to be a long epic similar to the LotR, rather than the fun adventure the book that the Hobbit book is. But i'd say that there are far more issues than just that.