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Originally Posted by Matata
The Peter Jackson movies seemed to get gradually worse as they go on. Fellowship is sheer perfection the whole way through and even the best part of it is the very beginning, It's hard to call Two Towers worse, but the cracks start to show with some of the creative liberties that were starting to happen (aragorns dream sequence). In RotK the creative liberties are starting to pile up and the whole thing just doesn't feel as focused and crisp as the first two. In the Hobbit, there is a huge drop in effort as everything is now done on green screen because PJ just doesn't have the energy to run around barefoot in New Zealand for another five years, this is masked by how cool it is to have LOTR back with dwarves in the spotlight and that the CGI was very impressive for it's time, but this mask slips as the movies go on. For the last movie I just waited until it was on streaming and just watched the last battle, which I don't even remember at all.
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The studio expanded The Hobbit into a trilogy when production had already begun. So Peter Jackson was actively writing the story as he was filming it. Perfect set-up to fail scenario.