Originally Posted by DArtagnan
It was mostly crap when he did it in LotR - and it's even more crappy here, where he does it a LOT.

I have no interest in what the audience and critics think - as they're not holding my opinion for me.

He had to make the shortest of the books into a trilogy somehow, right? Actually, it was that move that sent the movie from 'theater' to 'digital rental' for me … I knew it would be loaded with ponderous exposition and crap filler.