THE VIDEO SHELF · film criticism
The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)
The first part of Lindsay Ellis's video essay series on the troubled production and critical reception of The Hobbit film trilogy.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an engaging analysis of how the Hobbit films were made, in threads on CGI and Tolkien.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Lindsay Ellis
- Topic
- film criticism
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Longer form than EFaP, but Lindsay Ellis has some great film/TV analysis videos. She's usually more focused on writing than anything else, though. Here's a postmortem she did on the Hobbit films, which was recently nominated for a Hugo award: [VIDEO] Other solid works by …
muzzio on Hacker News · 2019-09
In Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (2017)The Hobbit films had a troubled production and were terribly rushed. Here's the first video in a small YouTube series on it: [VIDEO]
Apocryphon on Hacker News · 2020-01
In Christopher Tolkien has diedAgreed agreed. The problem with The Hobbit was not the visual effects. The problem was that it was made without a plan, under duress. Lindsay Ellis has a three-part video essay series ( [VIDEO] yes, I know it says 1/2, I promise there is a …
scott_s on Hacker News · 2022-02
In Over-reliance on CGI in movies
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