Originally Posted by
Markluzz
The reason people complain is as a movie it is very bloated and honestly as a LOTR fan I love the appendices and learning about the setting but they don't convert well to adding story to the Hobbit, because if you looked at it the best parts were the original book material and if they had stuck with that and maybe added in some of the necromancer stuff and kept it at two movies, it would have been much more compact and fast paced (which is good for movies like the Hobbit, the places where the pace was fast were the parts that matched the tone of the book the most and got me the most involved in it) as 2 3 hour films than 3 2 and a half hour long films.
At the very least they could have saved a lot of that stuff such as Radagast, the stonge giants fighting, Thorin's story of how he gots his name, etc. for the extended edition. And honestly they should have cut the orc chase altogether, they weren't apart of the Hobbit story in any way and offered nothing to the movie except to let movie 1 have a figurehead bad guy since you most likely won't see Smaug till the second movie (which is another problem which was caused with bloating the movie, they had to bloat it more so the UAJ could stand-alone as an entry movie).
I know what's done is done, I just still wish it would have been Del Toro or heck it could have been Jackson, but I just wish they kept it at 2 compact movies. Every scene or section of a movie or book or play should have purpose for the story as a whole, if it serves no purpose except to bloat the story and make it longer it shouldn't be there. There were many fragments in the Hobbit that could have easily been cut and thrown on the extended edition.
And that honestly was really my only complaint about the movie, except it is a pretty big complaint and detracts from the movie enough for me to consider it merely good instead of great. (Because there were many fantastic moments in there, and unsurprisingly they were all moments from that were from the book, so it just makes me wonder how this could have looked if they just used the original source material, it could have been much better.)
Longer does not always equal better, longer is fine, but there needs to be purpose to length. If there is no purpose it is just bloat and fat that does nothing but pull the film down.