Peter Jackson's The Hobbit

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By way of comparison, a SERIOUS writer like Ayn Rand,

If the movie had been called The War of the Ring or something I wouldn't have minded so much. And I can forgive a fair bit of editing - the whole Old Forest / Bombadil section was pretty much cuttable, eg - but it was the dumbing down that pissed me off, especially in the confrontations between Gandalf and Saruman. It ended up as "ooh, orcs, kill them! Chop slash gahh... Ooohh, more orcs, kill them ... " rinse and repeat.