[dylan604]

>that movie runtimes - even though they're getting longer - just aren't a good medium for complex stories like this that rely on heavy background and backstory

Peter Jackson would disagree. If you can't get it done in a single "getting longer" movie runtime, just make it into 3. Harry Potter did it in 2, Twilight did it in 2, etc. So the precedent of using multiple movies is there.

[throw0101a]

> Peter Jackson would disagree. If you can't get it done in a single "getting longer" movie runtime, just make it into 3.

That's how we got The Hobbit series, which were getting a bit too thin/stretched IMHO. LoTR as three worked, maybe Hobbit as two could have been better (was a love triangle really needed?)

[arethuza]

"...thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."

[dylan604]

Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett?

[jemmyw]

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3875-i-feel-thin-sort-of-st... Tolkien apparently, although I definitely remember a similar Pratchett quote.