The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)

Longer form than EFaP, but Lindsay Ellis has some great film/TV analysis videos. She's usually more focused on writing than anything else, though. Here's a postmortem she did on the Hobbit films, which was recently nominated for a Hugo award: ▶ this video Other solid works by her include a postmortem on the last season of Game of Thrones and an analysis of themes in Michael Bay's Transformers. (I know that last one sounds weird, but it's really well done.)

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Agreed agreed. The problem with The Hobbit was not the visual effects. The problem was that it was made without a plan, under duress. Lindsay Ellis has a three-part video essay series ( ▶ this video yes, I know it says 1/2, I promise there is a 2/3) exploring this.

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The Hobbit films had a troubled production and were terribly rushed. Here's the first video in a small YouTube series on it: ▶ this video

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