The Hobbit

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Just my opinion but i think you are touching upon one of my major beefs with action films today. Too much CGI and over the top action scenes. It looks fake and enables filmakers to have characters defy laws of gravity. Requires too much suspension of disbelief. Jackson is becoming notorious for it. King Kong was filled with scenes like this, but at least people died and got injured.

Not trying to slam Jackson, still enjoy his films for the most part.

You can also blame Lucas for that. The action in the Only Three Real Films was specific and plotted and empty of distraction (e.g. attack on the Death Star in "New Hope", attack of the AT-ATs on Hoth in "Empire", speederbike forest chase in "Return"). Then he made the Three Abominations--which he said he had waited "for technology to catch up to his 'vision' of the films". And apparently his "vision" includes massive CGI battles of both the hand-to-hand and spacecraft variety where you can't focus on one frickin' thing happening.