“Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a rhetorical device where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, …”
However, I thought Peter Jackson Hobbit trilogy was fantastic. I especially loved Bilbo, and the backstory of the White Council vs the Necromancer. That was important.
Was (for example) the floating battle in the barrels a bit too over the top? Sure. Would we rather have had a half-hour of darkness and silence?
Oh gawdno. del Toro would have taken all the light & fun of of what is essential a Kids book and made it too damn dark.
False dichotomy.
Okay, we had them almost cooked alive by goblins, almost eaten by spiders, almost savaged by a bear. We had ghosts and city destroying dragons. We’ve had madness, corruption, refugees and treaty debates.
It’s not as scattershot as the Phantom Menace, but it still shows they didn’t know which audience they were aiming at.
I agree, they looked like funny little humans. Dwarfs (capital D) are meant to have different proportions to men and elven, not just smaller size. To me, Gimli was the perfect Dwarf, he was a broad, imposing figure. His legs might be short but he could believably beat any man up.
The Hobbit’s dwarves were too short compared to Bilbo, too slender , they looked like children not warriors with the physical strength to go toe-to-toe with people a head taller.
This is the issue with fanboys, and it’s why they never like the second series, made years after. They devolve into either* Comic Book Guy* “Worst film ever!” or The Critic “It Stinks!”.