J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Maple Films Edit)

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I must say that this edition is hope for these movies. Hobbit finally is The Hobbit. But if I can say one critic word, you have to change end credits because for example Saruman is not in this edition. Also there is no Gollum.

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I've watched other Hobbit edits before watching this one.
Suffice to say that this is the only version of The Hobbit trilogy I recommend watching. In tone its true to the spirit of LoTR that most fans anticipated in the films. It was there, between the stretch-marks of a studio-mandated third film. What Dustin's done here is a monumental task. He's taken 12 hours of films that were filled to the brim with incoherent nonsense, and he made it a close approximation of the film that PJ has intended to make, when it was just two films that combine to make one long watch.
I've seen both the theatrical and the extended films, and lost interest in The Hobbit as a franchise almost entirely, until. now. After watching it just once, I found myself lipsyncing on my second watch, much in the way I always have while watching Lord of the Rings.
Dustin's made some very clever edits. While watching this, every time it hits me that when Smeagol says "Just us", he's referrng to excluding Gollum. In the theatrical and extended movies this comes off as just a joke on the insane Gollum, perhaps because of the timing. I absolutely love this, because it reveals a step of nuance in that Bilbo never even picked up on Smeagol's split personality and simply perceives him as a raving lunatic, but the audience gets it..
I will never watch the theatrical or extended films again. Maybe after many many many more rewatches of Dustin's cut, I might give them a go, but I feel like it'd be a disservice to what I consider the definitive version of The Hobbit.
I'll also mention that visual editing is fantastic and just slightly tweaked enough to make a more coherent visual fidelity with LotR. I've only seen it twice now and am yet to see anything that I wouldn't agree with as a good and appropriate creative decision. This really is The Hobbit with the grissle cut out- 65% of the footage is cut. I'm honestly in love with this Edit. Actually it makes me as obsessed as I've been with LotR. Hard to believe, but seriously. It was so hard for me to believe that I had to sign up just to write this review.
We didn't have this edit. It was taken from us. But Dustin helped to take it back, and he could.
This is probably the best version of The Hobbit there will ever be.

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An amazing edit.
Bonus points for the separate piece following the Dol Guldur plot.

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I can't recommend this edit enough! Dustin Lee did a fantastic job cutting this bloated trilogy into a single excellent movie.

The visual and audio editing is top-notch and seamless. I also love how Lee recolored the film to look more like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. That was a nice touch.

Lee did a perfect job chipping away the excess bloat and cringe-worthy moments, making this not only watchable, but a fantastic movie that's rewatch worthy (I've watched it about 4 times now in total). Not to sound like an infomercial, but it makes for a great start off point in anyone's Lord of the Rings marathon.

Like I said at the beginning, I can't recommend this edit enough!

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The first Hobbit edit I ever saw, and one of what I consider to be the "Big Five" of the Hobbit edits. Not to mention, THE most popular edit on this entire site. Quite an achievement.

My only complaint here was leaving some shots of the dwarves fighting off Smaug inside the mountain. I understand and respect your reasons, however the scenes belittled Smaug a little to me, and I think you'd have been better off without them!

The Pros you ask? Well, to be frank, the entire rest of this edit is a pro. Your color corrected Smaug was genius, your use of the previously un-used score at the ending worked very well, your color re-grade was excellent, your digital removal of Radagast, your barrel sequence, Smaug sequence, the list goes on and on.

I recreated your barrel-chase sequence and it took me AGES to figure out how you cut out a shot of Tauriel, and eventually I realized that you just made a hard cut MID-SONG and you did it SO well, that it sounds like the song was meant to be that way! Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Even after I'd figured it out, it took me forever to replicate it.

I'd list more things I loved about this edit but anyone reading this might as well just read your change-log because everything on there is bloody marvelous. Great work Dustin, truly the pinnacle of Hobbit Edits, in my humble opinion.

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