There and Back Again (Hobbit Trilogy Fan Edit)

One of my classes this semester was Signs and Wonders, and one type of films that we watched were fan edits. Now right off the bat, the idea of fan edits kind of bother me just hearing the term. My small peeve with the idea of fan edits are that the "fans" who "edit" these films always with the mind set of, "I could've done this film better, and now I will show that to everybody"! The most recent fan edit we watched in class was There and Back Again, which is a cut up and mushed together version of the three Hobbit films. 

Now I will say that I never read the book, so when I saw the films there was no ruining of my childhood because there was a white Orc or because Legolas was in the movies. So whoever edited this film took out any scene that contained any character or event that didn't take place in book in order to create the true Hobbit movie. The way it should've been! My issue with when fans of a series get in an uproar because an adaption of any story/universe into another form of media, and isn't exactly like the original, they end up tearing their hair out because it's not the same. This upsets me because, why do you want it to be the same thing as the last thing? If you want the hobbit movies to tell the exact same story as the book, than just read the book! I really enjoy whenever a director or any kind of creator puts their own spin on someone else's work. In the case of the Hobbit, his films are obviously his take on the story of the Hobbit. To reel it back into the fan edit we saw, this guys attempt at "bettering" the Hobbit films, in my opinion butchered it. Because he felt the need to cut out so much, the movie just bounced all over the place, making the film completely incoherent. But as long as it's closer to the book, than the better it is apparently! I might just be completely bitter towards this subject so I'm overacting, either way, it just gets under my skin when the consumer is telling the creator how to do their work.