I'll come up with some films I wish had been longer at another time. This gives me the chance to vent, again, about Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit." There should have been been two films instead of three, in my opinion, with both of them shorter in length than any of the three he assaulted us with. I would get rid of the characters he shoved into his "trilogy" that took brutal liberties with a fantastic, stand alone novel by Tolkien that was vastly different in both content and tone to Jackson's The Hobbit. In my opinion. That felt good. I read The Hobbit for the first time during the 1960's, immediately read it again, and have enjoyed it several times over the years. It led me to The Lord of the Rings, of course, something that Jackson did a far better job adapting to the screen. While I complained about a couple of things he took license with that weren't in the novels (actually written as one grand epic, but I think Tolkien's publisher insisted that it come out as three, a wise decision), they were relatively minor. What he did to The Hobbit, however, still bothers me a great deal. It seemed an effort to line the pocketbooks of all involved with the production, in my opinion. However, in among the excess were some very fine scenes.
That'd be my pick. The one I like were the trailers in the movie. My favorite. Saw Tropic Thunder in the theartre, nobody could stop laughing when this was on.
Right? I was gonna say Hobo With a Shotgun, but they actually made a (crappy) movie out of that trailer. Maybe fake movies are best left fake?
