It is not our fight
It is not our fight
(This one seems a little familiar, but I can't recall if I've seen it here. Sorry if repost)
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.
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"
The Matrix Reloaded is legitimately a good movie. It's a little heady, maybe a little too up its own ass at times (the Architect scene is pretty baffling in the moment, although it ultimately comes together and makes sense in the context of the greater story), but worldbuilding is on point, the action is some of the best in movie history, and has enough of a cool factor that the Wachowskis were given passes on all of their box office bombs for 2 decades after the fact.
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.
It's called The Tolkien Edit
On the other hand, rewatching any season of True Detective is doable.
Is this the hobbit? I stopped watching after the first one betrayed young me so badly.
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.
There are plenty of huge errors in these movies, but the pacing of Smaug's demise was one of the better deviations.
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.
I recommend watching the third one, not because it is a good movie, but because it is a hilarious movie.
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.
Well... you know what they say: if Frodo can go to Osgiliath...
The people they fight for are mostly not in the book either so I don't see a problem