Why I Hate Peter Jackson: Tell Don’t Show

I particularly hated the rather boring meeting of the dwarves. A lot of exposition (much of which already got established in the opening montage) followed by a speech from Gandalf on why they needed Bilbo along on the trip. Peter Jackson is breaking the first rule of storytelling: Show don’t tell. If we hadn’t mostly wasted the first 27 minutes, we wouldn’t need to have a speech establishing the main bit of character growth we’re going to get from Bilbo. We could have established it through the story.

Minutes Watched: 27:24

Number of Montages: 1

Number of Gratuitous References To The First Trilogy: 1

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