Hobbit Movies Overuse of CGI Supported by Viewers

The poignant thing about it all is, the excessive use of CGI wasn’t an endeavor to save money, The Hobbit in its entirety cost around 745 million, whereas The Lord of the Rings totaled 280 million in budget.

Even if the results don't always pan out, nobody can really say that the Jackson of 2014 is a fundamentally different filmmaker than the Jackson of 1987, no matter how much CGI he decides to use in his later-day projects. Viggo's comment probably won't make him very popular among the Jackson faithful - it looks like he's biting the hand that fed him, even if he isn't - but given how much more PJ has come to rely on CG effects with The Hobbit films versus the Rings films, perhaps it's not totally unwarranted, either.

Oftentimes, when concerning The Hobbit, fan criticisms tend to lean towards the decision for the source material to be adapted into a trilogy, the overreliance on CGI, and heavy comparisons to Jackson's former trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

The rushed production of The Hobbit led to a lack of pre-production time, resulting in a less cohesive creative process. The overuse of CGI, added material, and lack of memorable villains contributed to The Hobbit's failure to make a lasting impact.

CGI can be used in small samples ... of the Rings films and The Hobbit films, which were made a decade later and with an abundance of CGI....

Although characters like Gollum and Smaug were triumphant achievements in digitalisation, there was an over reliance on CGI throughout the trilogy. Some moments were excusable, and some would have had Tolkien rolling in his grave.

Unfortunately, The Hobbit misses the point and overdoes the CGI to the point that it’s bad. This is evident in several scenes. From the boringly tensionless goblin-fight scene in Unexpected Journey to the Battle of the Five Armies‘ titular war, the movies often feel like a videogame or a cartoon. Even the orcs, who were played by real actors in LOTR, are depicted mainly through CGI here. It’s a real shame because it takes away a lot of the trilogy’s legitimacy.

And to hammer this nail home, why mention the original first movie probably ended with Smaug, then later state the truth where it was to end with the barrels? Did you suddenly do some research and forgot to edit? 9. You’re a film student, or former film student, you should know about film technologies. HFR would pick up imperfections in bigatures, like what was used on LOTR, hence why many more things had to be done with CGI in The Hobbit.

Jackson and the rest of his team ... the project. CGI was advanced enough that characters like Gollum still hold up to this day, but it was not yet at the point that the filmmakers could rely on it as a crutch....