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In defense of Jackson, there are a lot of key scenes that he nails. WB had such a hand in the production that I honestly feel like if he were just free to have creative control, the results would have been a lot better. Then again, he agreed to it and stepped in for the hobbit crap when del toro said fuck it so maybe he is just a total tool.
I honestly don’t know how much better the result would have been. I think if Jackson has free rein, he still omits the Scouring of the Shire.
Jackson also tends toward the dramatic, like how he changed the Witch King’s mace to a flail that was practically larger than the actor, or the completely unnecessary theatrics of Denethor’s death.
I don’t really blame him for the Hobbit, because when someone is throwing that much money at you, it’s hard to not just do the job and try to forget about it. He’d already finished the work that he wanted to do, after all.
Jackson definitely nailed a lot of important scenes though, and you can tell that he wanted to make the trilogy, which automatically makes it far better than if it were just modern content slop like the Rings of Power.
Yeah you are right about that with the things he decided to omit. I still can’t get over him leaving out Tom Bombadil and claiming he wasn’t important enough so that would have never made it either. I find both scenes being out is an insult to the hobbits and their character development. And as rough as the hobbit is, he got some important scenes in that as well. And the fan edit does make it a lot more watchable. Im glad there is a decent option anyway for some visual Tolkien but it could be better. But yeah, he paid much better homage in both than whatever the hell the ring of power crap is.
In defense of Jackson, there are a lot of key scenes that he nails. WB had such a hand in the production that I honestly feel like if he were just free to have creative control, the results would have been a lot better. Then again, he agreed to it and stepped in for the hobbit crap when del toro said fuck it so maybe he is just a total tool.
I honestly don’t know how much better the result would have been. I think if Jackson has free rein, he still omits the Scouring of the Shire.
Jackson also tends toward the dramatic, like how he changed the Witch King’s mace to a flail that was practically larger than the actor, or the completely unnecessary theatrics of Denethor’s death.
I don’t really blame him for the Hobbit, because when someone is throwing that much money at you, it’s hard to not just do the job and try to forget about it. He’d already finished the work that he wanted to do, after all.
Jackson definitely nailed a lot of important scenes though, and you can tell that he wanted to make the trilogy, which automatically makes it far better than if it were just modern content slop like the Rings of Power.
Yeah you are right about that with the things he decided to omit. I still can’t get over him leaving out Tom Bombadil and claiming he wasn’t important enough so that would have never made it either. I find both scenes being out is an insult to the hobbits and their character development. And as rough as the hobbit is, he got some important scenes in that as well. And the fan edit does make it a lot more watchable. Im glad there is a decent option anyway for some visual Tolkien but it could be better. But yeah, he paid much better homage in both than whatever the hell the ring of power crap is.