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The thing is I'm a sucker for trashy movies and bad adaptations, every single piece of tolkien media lives rent free in my head and mind and soul, but up until the 2000s "bad" adaptations were considered so mostly due to the lack of budget and/or the small number of people trying to adapt a beloved fantasy classic to the big screen. Say what you want about the Rankin/Bass hobbit and Bakshi lotr but the whimsy was there, even if it was a very specific 1970s kind of whimsy. I will defend them forever. Now everything is so pretty and polished and perfect to the point that it all looks fake and flat. Don't get me wrong, Peter Jackson did a wonderful aesthetic job with the lotr trilogy, it was in fact very pretty, but he also had the wisdom to not make Literally Everything appear polished. We lost the prettiness to polishedness balance, mostly due to the disastrous combination of improved camera quality and reduced costumes quality that plagues all the big franchises. I could go on forever about this, but in conclusion: do I trust Peter Jackson to make a fun and entertaining movie? Yes. Kinda. Depends if he gets cgi crazy like in the hobbit trilogy. Do I trust Peter Jackson to make a good Silmarillion adaptation in this day and age? eeeeh not really :/