The Big Picture: Is The Hobbit Too Long?

YodaUnleashed

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You know, you actually made me appreciate the hobbit even more as a well layed out first act to what I'd never considered to be a difficult book to adapt, but the fact that there are essentially two climaxes in the book does make it difficult to translate in to a film format and this first film, whilst long, doesn't feel long. Good work distilling those thoughts into a succinct video.
 

Corran.132

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I actually do have one scene they really could have cut: The first one with Bilbo and Frodo.

The only purpose of that scene is to tie the movie back to the lord of the rings (and weather that is a good idea or not is up for debate) as the narrative device of "Bilbo writing the book" clearly isn't in play, as there are scenes he wouldn't have been told about and couldn't understand (see-scene with the council). So it exists only to say, "this is X time before the party", and I don't honestly think it was necessary- and really don't think it was necessary to be that long.

But that's just me.