I still can’t stop but think how stretched out the Hobbit films were, for an otherwise short book. That’s a sin that stains forever with me. The Lord of the Rings films, do have their own flaws, but they’re fairly contained and can be debated as to whether they were good or not. I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though.
And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion. Simply because, there will be so much improvised fluff in that would-be film, that it’d make the Hobbit films blush.
The dark tower film
Where the hell was the giant robot bear and the talking train? You know, the kinds of things that made the setting engaging.
That movie was just a generic sci fi setting full of bad writing.
Yes! Attempting to smash 7 books into one film was just stupid. It could have easily been a multi part movie or a mini-series but they just wanted to cash and run on the name. I could only watch trailers but could tell it was just going to be the essence of the plot of the book.
The true shame is that Idris Elba crushes it as the Gunslinger and could have carried even a halfway decent attempt at the books.