[TomSwirly]

The Hobbit trilogy wasn't mediocre - it was just astonishingly bad and worse, they added a huge amount of material that had nothing to do with the book.

The Hobbit is a single book that is shorter than any of the three LoTR books. There was no reason to make three movies out of it other than greed.

[midoridensha]

The Hobbit fan edits are actually quite enjoyable movies. Of course, they all remove that huge amount of extra material, so...