Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings

Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings(polygon.com)

11 points by HelloUsername 3 hours ago | 6 comments

lanstin 2 hours ago |

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.

kingleopold 3 minutes ago | |

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.

browningstreet 2 hours ago | |

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.