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Originally Posted by octothorp
Fun fact! Boromir's death scene was the first scene that Mortensen and Bean filmed together.
My wife and I rewatched LotR over Christmas, and we found it held up extremely well over the years. Visually it's still fantastic. Some of the plot problems get more and more glaring over repeat viewings over the years (and you can see little writing mistakes that are largely covered over by the rest of the movie, but which are also occur in the Hobbit in a far more glaring way).
The Hobbit was always going to be a problem to film. I read the book to my son recently, and I couldn't help thinking how awful the movie would have been if they had stuck to only the text in the book. There'd be more singing, the elves would be less impressive, the riddle scene would be far longer, and the battle would be much shorter. Emotionally it would be far, far shallower.
Really, the decision to try and tie it together with LotR saved it from being awful. The occasionally hammy writing and the decision to rely so heavily on CGI where practical effects were used the LotR is what prevented it from being great.
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I'd agree that the LOTR, especially the first one, still hold up great.
The Hobbit films, however, are unwatchable. I literally fell asleep the first time I tried watching them. Repeat viewing don't help. They are truly awful. As others have mentioned, they suffer from:
1) Over-reliance on bad CGI.
2) Bad pacing.
3) Bad dialogue.
4) Characters and side-plots that you simply don't care about.
The Hobbit films feel like 9 hours straight of the Lucas edited Jaba's palace scene.