(This one seems a little familiar, but I can't recall if I've seen it here. Sorry if repost)
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I have been rewatching some franchise media that got bad receptions (new star trek movies, matrix reloaded, The Phantom Menace) and I have been feeling a lot more charitable to these works than I was the first time.
In this spirit I watched The Hobbit again and it is truly awful.
I seem to recall there being a pretty good fan edit that condensed it down into one long movie and cut out all the unnecessary love triangle stuff.
It's called The Tolkien Edit
https://tolkieneditor.wordpress.com/
I enjoyed watching that when it was first created! Any word of a 1080p for that one? I'd even take a release of the timestamps so that I could make the edit to my 1080p versions.
There's a few. I watched the M4 book edit recently and it's pretty great.
Certainly cut out a few scenes I liked, but its goal was to be book accurate and it does a great job IMO.
https://m4-studios.github.io/hobbitbookedit/
The list of changes is remarkable.
http://www.maple-films.com/downloads.html
I can wouch for this one. Very well done. I wish they cut out more Alfrid time though.
Alfrid makes me understand why people hate Jar Jar so much.
You like Jar Jar?
I like Darth Jar Jar. I want video genAI to execute what it was really built for and replace Dooku with DarthJar.
Like is a strong word I think. I don't mind him. But I was a kid when Phantom Menace came out, I didn't really fully experience the original trilogy before I saw it. So that's why - for a kid it's a fun goofy comic relief. So might have liked him back then, which moved my tolerance for him in adulthood. Didn't see the movie in years though.
LotR is sacred to me on a similar level like the SW original trilogy was sacred to the die hard SW fans back then, probably. I can't say I hated the Hobbit movies (though they are clearly inferior - the edit really saved them), but I hate Alfrid with everlasting passion.
Is this the same edit made by Tolkien Editor or is it another cut?
It's a different cut. Tolkien Editor wrote he edited over a weekend, the maple edit took 2 years.
Another edit is https://m4-studios.github.io/hobbitbookedit
Which is closer to the book, whereas maple is a bit more action/cinematic and hints at LOTR plot.
Thanks.