A fan has recut the Hobbit trilogy into a single 4-hour film

Very nice effort! 4.5 hours is still a bit long for a single film. Ever since The Hobbit movies were announced I thought the story could fit into a couple 2-hour movies much better than the three existing 3-hour movies. The Hobbit felt like a five-page school paper where you could only come up with two pages of actual content and you're scrambling to fluff it out, like adding useless anecdotes and increasing the font size of all punctuation.

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” Indeed you were, Mr. Bilbo, indeed you were.

To date, the Hobbit trilogy has made $2,759,130,028 globally.

This cut may be a better single experience, and maybe would have increased the monetary single experience, but I dunno if it could make up for $1.4b in revenue.