I heard that too, but in reality it's supposed to be placed 14 years after the ending and be about Sam's daughter teaming up with Merry and Pippin or some bullshit like that. It sounds so shit.

The whole "oh I read this chapter of the books and thought it would be cool to adapt" is a weird little lie to make people buy into the idea and then slip in the actual fan-fic plot after people have gotten the wrong idea of what he's trying to do.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, that's completely different! I'd be a lot more confident it won't suck if the Hobbit movies didn't exist.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh God. Everytime I'm reminded that the hobbit movies exist I feel something in me die a little bit, lol.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like a short story drawn out into three movies."

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 points 1 day ago

For real @,@

It's also just the fact that they decided to make it an epic when The Hobbit is more of a fun adventure/fairytale book for kids. It should have been a small story with a few big elements in it. Kinda like Willow, actually. A vibe a bit like that, but then translated into Tolkien.

All this big special effects nightmare and cramming these big bombastic battles into every movie just felt so off putting to me.

It would have been better if it was one movie and if they had had the restraint to make it more like a traditional family fantasy movie.

I blame studio interference. Idiots who don't understand nor respect what this world is and what it isn't.

And while I'm aware that Colbert is a supposed Tolkien mega fan, I don't trust him to be able to do a good job. Especially not when it's revealed to be a fan fic he wrote with his son instead of him attempting to put Tolkien's words to screen. To me, that displays a special level of arrogance to greenlight a fan fic set in Tolkien's world.

Not really a fan of the Gollum movie either, but that seems to be more like a love letter to the fans than an arrogant assumption that because you like Tolkien, you're somehow good enough to write like him. Ew. No. Just no.

Must be nice to be rich enough to quit your cushy day job to make a terrible fan fic movie with your nepo kid. I'm sorry, I just have close to zero respect for Hollywood people and their abilities to create worthwhile art. It all seems like vanity projects.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Oh, the River's Daugh-ter!

[–] saimen@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That would make sense. It's a whole adventure by itself and was almost like half of the first book.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

It is where they got their swords though. So where do the swords come from later?