Hacker News Reader

It's present day WB - I'm fully expecting a worse cash grab than the third hobbit film. Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll decide to cancel it for the tax write off.

I'm rewatching the originals now, and it occurred to me that they were made during that magic period when computer graphics were advanced enough to be believable, but still expensive enough to be used sparingly.

By the time the Hobbit movies were made, it was cheaper to make all the orcs into digital props than to hire and costume a bunch of actors, and everything looks like a video game.

I liked the amazon show.