Thread: The Hobbit.
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Old 12-07-2012, 05:33 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Spexxvet View Post
I've read The Hobbit and LOTR probably 7 or 8 times. I don't like it when a movie is different from a book. My feeling is that in order to extend the story to fill out three movies, they added stuff. I know they added characters, and put Galadriel in. The Hobbit is complete as written.
But you're ignoring every book that's ever been made into a movie, since forever. In order to make 1 book into 1 movie, you have to cut out more than half of the book in order to make it fit in the time allotted. So how do you avoid cutting stuff out of the book? By allowing more time. Allowing enough time to tell the whole story--something which is never done when they make a book into a movie.

This may be the first time this has ever been done right.
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