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JimmyFraska posted...

So you agree witth their 3rd movie as is? Cause that's basically what you're describing, except you're saying they should have squished the first two together? I think those first two would have too much content to have the movie end with smaug, while the 3rd one is not enough to be a movie by itself.

Cause the filmmakers said, when they were trying to cut it as two, they ended with the crew arriving in Laketown, but it wasn't a good enough ending by itself. So then they changed it to three movies, so they could end the 2nd with the Smaugh showdown. When I heard them explain it that way, it made more sense why they made that decision.

No. The Hobbit [movie 1] should have adapted the book almost in its entirety without adding stuff thst wasn't from the book. TABA [movie 2] would have some creative freedom especially since Bilbo was KO'd most of the battle. Hollywood could have added extra stuff to reach feature length as long as it made the movie good.