Bad movies, for example the Hobbit after the LoTR always amaze me as a human endeavor. So many smart people working together, organized, talented, funded, etc., can still make a really awful movie. It's so interesting.
Because there is no formula, recipe or related definition to make a great movie!
Its actually really rare to make a great movie. It's biggest contributor in outcome is good director and it's team but still sometimes they can produce bad or not so bad movies. In other case I think like %99 of the movies are never get close to be great, it's rare like startups.
Look at Tom Hooper, he had good movies and in the end jumped into lowest possible level.
It was designed as a bad movie by people who didn’t realize their idea was terrible. It was hardly organized, as Peter Jackson had to come in late in the game and against his will to try saving the franchise.
PJ defined the product that was LOTR against the objectives pursued by studio. Then that same entity got their true wishes with the Hobbit.
It’s not that the Hobbit sucked as much as LOTR was the exception that proved the studio rule.
Also, a thousand geniuses can’t change the trajectory of an idiot boss.
Frankly I thought even the book was terrible. The book was basically many pages of boring landscape description, then our heroes get into a VERY VERY BAD IMPOSSIBLE PICKLE, then A MIRACLE HAPPENS OUT OF NOWHERE. Repeat five times, the end.
"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."
Aren’t there a flood of movies with “good story and character development” per year, but audiences frequently don’t show up for them in sufficient quantity to cover the film + marketing costs?
Bad movies, for example the Hobbit after the LoTR always amaze me as a human endeavor. So many smart people working together, organized, talented, funded, etc., can still make a really awful movie. It's so interesting.
Because there is no formula, recipe or related definition to make a great movie!
Its actually really rare to make a great movie. It's biggest contributor in outcome is good director and it's team but still sometimes they can produce bad or not so bad movies. In other case I think like %99 of the movies are never get close to be great, it's rare like startups.
Look at Tom Hooper, he had good movies and in the end jumped into lowest possible level.
It was designed as a bad movie by people who didn’t realize their idea was terrible. It was hardly organized, as Peter Jackson had to come in late in the game and against his will to try saving the franchise.
PJ defined the product that was LOTR against the objectives pursued by studio. Then that same entity got their true wishes with the Hobbit.
It’s not that the Hobbit sucked as much as LOTR was the exception that proved the studio rule.
Also, a thousand geniuses can’t change the trajectory of an idiot boss.
Creators create, studios iterate.
See also: Star Wars, Star Trek
Frankly I thought even the book was terrible. The book was basically many pages of boring landscape description, then our heroes get into a VERY VERY BAD IMPOSSIBLE PICKLE, then A MIRACLE HAPPENS OUT OF NOWHERE. Repeat five times, the end.
But the Tove Jansson illustrations make it all worthwhile. Adorable.
https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/
"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."
In other words, Hollywood executives lack humanity.
We live in the times when Jackson's LoTR, which was not faithful to the source, is considered a gold standard of "humanity"?
I will watch any movie or genre where it has a good story and character development.
Why don't they focus on this more?
Aren’t there a flood of movies with “good story and character development” per year, but audiences frequently don’t show up for them in sufficient quantity to cover the film + marketing costs?