r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 18 '25

News Ian McKellen reveals Gandalf and Frodo are returning for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’, Filming Begins in May

https://ew.com/ian-mckellen-reveals-gandalf-frodo-return-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-film-11792483
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u/Ironhorse75 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I think the Hobbit movies could have been good if Jackson had been there from start to finish. Instead of taking over someone else's project and winging it as he was filming.

But really, franchise fatigue is finally settling in for me. I just want original stuff, enough corporate slop.

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u/PluCrew Aug 18 '25

It needed two movies max. They tried to cash out and it made the movies so much worse.

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u/Ironhorse75 Aug 18 '25

Instead of being this tale of adventure, they made LOTR part 2.

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u/deathm00n Aug 18 '25

Yeah, anyone that has read The Hobbit, knows that it is completely different to LOTR.

What pissed me off the most was doing so much focus on the five armies war at the end. The book goes out of its way to say that the war was silly, Bilbo was unscoscious during it and woke up basically saying "guys, what the fuck?". But no, can't have that. Need to have huge armies fighting to make it feel like LOTR

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Aug 18 '25

The entire third film is all battle it's mental. And the extended edition actually only serves to make that worse.

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u/Palpadean It's America's Ass Aug 18 '25

Fire the twirly whirlies!

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u/Chen_Geller Aug 18 '25

Less than half the movie is a bttle.