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Do you mean LOTR of the Hobbit?

If it was LOTR: LOTR was '''amazing. '''No arguments. It's just the reality of good movies.

If it was The Hobbit: The Hobbit was pretty bad, but Peter Jackson himself said that

1. They ran aground in how simple the base story was in the very beggining, and doing it exactly like the book whould have left enormous plotholes for the audience, like "Where was Gandalf?" and "If Legolas came from Mirkwood and was that good at fighting, wouldn't it make sense if he was there, fighting the spiders, and presumably the head of the guard capturing the Dwarves?

2. The Studio didn't give them enough time for pre-production. Instead of the 3 years they got for LOTR, The Hobbit only had half a year for pre-production, forcing them to make rushed storyboard. Not only that, with  only half a year to make everything, they could make far less prostecics and models than in LOTR, yet again goarding them into using CGI, which is much quicker to make, which was likely a tactic that Peter Jackson didn't want to use.

3. The studio gave him too much money. This may seem a little strange, but it has commonly been found that movies with larger budgets get smaller efforts put into them. With  $745 million put into The Hobbit, you simply can't use it up in 1 or 2 movies, causing you to have to make 3 with a lot of expensive stuff added.

But let's just do a small show of the good things from The Hobbit:

1. Smaug. He. Was. Amazing. He was just the character I imagined him to be, a cruel, smart, sarcastic antagonist who always outsmarts everyone he talks to, and he's an impressive fighter.

2. The Dwarves. You can say what you want, but the Dwarves were cool. They really showed a sense of seriousness and realisticness in character that Gimli, well, just, lacked.

3. Gollum. I was hugely impressed in how much better Gollum had become in looks. Instead of the slightly hovering appearence of Gollum in LOTR, I could fully believe that Gollum was real here.

4. The music. Like in LOTR, the music didn't disappoint. For example, the Misty Mountains theme from the Unexpected Journey was amazing. However, I didn't understand why they abandond it in the later movies...

5. I was in it :^P No arguing there :^)

Thanks for reading, this wasn't copy pasted, I promise you...

 LordDainTheAwsome, King under the Mountain  (send a raven!)