Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 6:09:29 GMT
@ filmfan95 and ArarArchStanton: Again, the Rankin-Bass version did just fine with an hour and a half. Their version trimmed a lot, but it was still coherent and flowed well enough. To make a proper three hour singular Hobbit film, you would have to design it that way from the concept stage. Of course cutting it down to just the Bilbo stuff in Jackson's version is still four hours long, a lot of those scenes went on forever past the point they did in the books with the inclusion of basically video game levels and fights happening in the thick of it.