(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 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
There’s a few. I watched the M4 book edit recently and it’s pretty great.
Certainly cut out a few scenes I liked, but its goal was to be book accurate and it does a great job IMO.
https://m4-studios.github.io/hobbitbookedit/
The list of changes is remarkable.
I can wouch for this one. Very well done. I wish they cut out more Alfrid time though.
Alfrid makes me understand why people hate Jar Jar so much.
The Matrix Reloaded is legitimately a good movie.
Other than that 3 hour dance scene, I agree
