Pokémon GO Announces Halloween Event Details

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While datamining has given us a preview of what to come in Niantic’s Pokémon GO Halloween event, official details have been revealed along with a trailer to celebrate the spooktacular holiday!


From October 20th to November 2nd trainers can take advantage of the following bonuses:

  • Gastly, Drowzee, Cubone have increased encounter rates along with some other Ghost-type Pokémon
  • Sableye, Banette and Duskull (and the latter two’s evolutions) from Hoenn are able to be found!
  • Candy rewards from catching, hatching, and transferring Pokémon will be doubled
  • Your buddy Pokémon will find Candy twice as fast
  • Witch-hat Pikachu can be caught
  • New Mimikyu Hat available for player avatars

In addition, the developers have said that other Hoenn Pokémon will be rolling out soon, with some coming as soon as December!

Are you looking forward to these treats from Pokémon GO?!

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  2. I’m thinking about doing some shiny hunting in Black 2 before USUM releases. I chose this because my fondest memories of shiny hunting are from White, so I find Gen 5 to be the most fun to try with its large Pokémon variety and (especially) its double battle grass. I still don’t know where in particular I want to go, all I know is that I probably won’t restart my file again.

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  4. Can we talk about how bad Chickorita is? I decided to try solo running with it for a little
    The entire start of Johto destroys it

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  6. Yo another fantasy area because why not

    Carbo Woods

    The largest wooded area in the world, which takes up a good fifth of Astra’s landmass. It also surrounds the Verdigris Marsh. This is a place where the roots weave a floor and the towering canopy creates a permanent night. Light comes in small doses here – dotted clearings, glowing gems, and bursts of bioluminescence. It’s access to this light that determines where most of the clans reside. There are sporadic superlarge clearings, almost all of which are filled with a small village.

    Clans of ninjas reside in the darkness of the woods, off of the paths between settlements. Different settlements have forged relations with ninja clans in order to avoid their wrath, and to gain their protection. In return, marriages are made between the clans and settlements and they won’t interfere with each other’s lifestyles beyond that. There are also groups of nomads wandering the woods, who are tolerated by the clans if they do not cause trouble. That’s if they don’t aggravate the spirits of the forest.

    There’s a massive clearing in the middle of the forest, where all the old trees had seemingly spontaneously died at some point, allowing a manageable clear area to be established. This is the sight of the largest settlement in the Carbo Region, and the site of the Mortal Temple. Although it’d closed off to all but the very elite and the monks inside, it’s said that the Mortal Crystal sleeps deep beneath the earth. Although the crystal was lowered so it’d stop immediately killing any crop grown, it was not lowered enough to stop the town from being a veritable ghost magnet: both ghastly geists and serene spirits. The Mortal Guardian is said to stalk the shadows at night, fighting for the townsfolk to rest in peace whilst the dead attempt to walk among them.

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  8. since were not seeing any new pokemon revealed for (possibly) a few weeks, ill be your new nintendo for now :3

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b32d6c7af74c9e5a0e857b5e94b5dfd0b5b490c1ea850cbf9cbc6950f1330257.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cb144d808f37764ddf5d23b1591a58deca0e936378ed1e1ca06af1ffb7084b69.png

    both ground/grass type

    the first one burrows under the ground with its leaves showing above ground and farmers pick them thinking theyre turnips, if they pick it up by the tail itll be passive but they may get attacked they pick it up by the head, it evolves into the second one when its left in the ground long enough (or in game terms, when it learns dig and gets to level 30)

    the second one stays burrowed in the ground with its “beanstalk” showing above ground and its considered extremely good luck to find one, if you befriend it it can bring you up to the clouds

    hope you enjoy ^w^;

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      • Well, he managed to push back Goku’s Spirit Bomb (filled with the energy of all of the Universe 7 participants, even the Androids) with just his glare, and eventually cause it to collapse under it’s own weight, for one.

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          • There’s also the fact that he managed to break through Hit’s Time Skip cage (essentially he trapped him in an infinite loop of frozen time) through sheer willpower, and managed to block Hit’s trump card with just his glare. You could argue that Hit was in a weakened state, which I guess is true, but idk

    • Meeeee meee mee!
      I still remember how amazed and happy I was when corocoro revealed the therian genie forms.
      I really hope Tapus get smiliar treatment!

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      • That’s what sparked my question actually. I mean it never happened before the genies but it could still happen again (there weren’t any sub-legends in XY).

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    • Kind of hope they get new forms like the Kami trio got. I know it’d technically be them repeating themselves, but it’d be cool if they were like that fan art we got a number of weeks back.

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      • Yeah I was thinking that, or individual Z-Moves to fit their other types (Electric, Psychic, Water and Grass) though that might be a bit disappointing.

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        • That’d be cool I think I can see individual Z moves more than new forms happening. Best case scenario we’d get both haha

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    • Me too.
      My hopes and expectations:
      – New tapu forms, alolans etc
      – Bigger post game perhaps similiar delta episode
      – Improved Battle tree
      – This team rocket or other evil teams returning theory to come true
      – Being able to travel to the actual location of the legendary mons like distortion world etc
      – Battle frontier
      – More side quests/side games
      – More change to Alola than initially seen
      – Return of older gym leaders and champions being able to rebattle them

      Can you think of anything else or is their anything major you’d like to see that i haven’t mentioned??

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          • What’s wrong with it? You get a free Johto Starter with it

            My teamactually changed to include Cyndaquil for the battle

          • It’s too much back and forth between places we’ve already been. Post game content should bring us to new locations. Part of why Sinnoh, Johto, and Unova have well received post games. Running around in diglett cave of all places looking for Nihilego isn’t exciting.

          • Nothing inherently, but the biggest and basic problem with it is that it’s not much of a story. It’s mostly jumping around form place to the next and then occasionally having a battle with Zinnia. If they do a post game episode then it need to have more substance. Then it’ll be awesome!

          • Agreed. Is it sad I actually lost the battle with Zinnia

            Dragon Ascent 1 hit KO’s Deoxys, but fails to kill M-Salamence that was like 10 or 20 levels lower somehow

          • I liked Delta.
            But I would like them to really go all out in USUM. Something really dramatic and unexpected. Maybe they introduce new tapu forms and its based around them?

          • Holy sh*t it was the worst sidequest I have ever done in a video game.

            I have never had a more boring, repetitive experience in a pokemon game including grinding and shiny hunting.

            The entire experience is a game of fetch where you are dragged back and forth and you are greeted with nothing but long drawn out dialogue. Dialogue that feels more like a lecture because it is throwing all of these ideas and concepts at you that were NEVER mentioned in the main story or in other pokemon games.

            They have to introduce Juan for fan service and Zinnia. They have to introduce the draconids, the concept of alternate universes. All of which were not in the main game meaning that much of the dialogue is devoted to explaining these things. This entire experience could’ve had all gameplay cut out of it and replaced with just the dialogue because the only meaningful player input is going place to place and the occasional battle.

            They even make you go through the evil team base again.

            All leading up to one of ORAS’s greatest sins. Ruining both the Rayquaza cutscene theme from Emerald by looping it over and over and changing Sky Pillar from a crumbling relic of the past that the player has to approach as a puzzle to a setting for more dialogue with no puzzles. Just more exposition that doesn’t matter.

            Finally you get to the top where the only enjoyable part of the entire thing happens when you catch Rayquaza and battle Zinnia before flying into Space to fight deoxsys which is admittedly… pretty fuckin’ rad

            But for what?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RpoznrQnio

            This play through of the Delta Episode lasted 2 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES

            MOST OF THAT BEING WONDERING TO THE NEXT PLACE THE GAME WANTS YOU TO GO OR DIALOGUE.

            And sure whatever, maybe it’s cool the first time coming off of an adrenaline high from flying into space but when you actually think of what you just did, you realize that your input was totally pointless. You could’ve just watched a lets play because at least with a lets play you can skip to the end.

            It was horrible

          • I agree on all, but the puzzle…

            The puzzle of Sky Pillar is way too hard on Emerald. It took me 5 hours to surpass a certain room because every tile is busted and you must have very quick and agile hand eye coordination plus you must know exactly how to go to get through.

            I never want the floor plan of that magnitude ever again

    • I really just want to see this mysterious pokemon/form in the background. It has to be a necrozma form, but I really just hope it looks awesome and maybe is composed of light or something. I’m quite disappointed with how the necrozma forms look now so hopefully this other thing is way better

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          • Ok for realzies? Like what is with Pokemon fans and them hating the fact that we need to move onto a new system every 7 or so years? Is it really that much trouble to buy a new thing? Yeah yeah some people can’t “afford” the Switch, but honestly we knew a new system was coming. If peeps can’t straight up buy a new system then over the 7 years we are on whatever current console they best be saving up. It’s their problem not everyone else’s and certainly not Nintendo/GameFreak’s

          • Pokemon fans are some of the most unreasonable and selfish people I’ve seen. Of course that is a sweeping generalization but god. The amount of fear of their game actually changing and improving is astounding. This place is way better about that and that’s what I love

          • Yeah I think here we have enough people that play other kinds of games and have other kinds of interest that it levels us out. Rational thoughts are a dying breed in the Pokemon fanbase lol

          • I feel like it has been like that for a while honestly. I feel alot of Pokemon fans only play Pokemon and very few other games so they have this very narrow view of games. I was that way until ORAS when I began to branch out.

            Seeing what games are really like really put Pokemon into perspective and made me realize so much

          • Yeah I love Pokemon, but it doesn’t give me everything I need in gaming. So I game on other consoles where I’ll get the things I don’t get from Nintendo. Also I’m a reasonable person hahaha

          • I agree its not like we didn’t move up from GBA to DS and then 3DS. It’s nothing new and well worth it if you like your Pokemon games

          • I wouldnt say people hate the idea of moving to a new system every few years. I think that because video game producers still target old systems on occasion that they can still do it for this series. Tbh im actually happy knowing that pokemon would be moving to a new system thatll hopefully produce a better quality of gaming

          • No there’s plenty of people that hate moving up. They always come up with excuses as to why developers shouldn’t make the jump and in the end it’s their problem and they shouldn’t force their money issues on others. Gaming is an ever evolving hobby and you need to be able to move with it otherwise the people that complain might as well be off playing pong somewhere XP

          • Hey im not saying i wasnt gonna buy a switch lol im just saying for example with the PS4/XBOX1 game developers/producers were still making copies for the PS3/XB360 although these copies didnt have all the content that the newer versions had. Pkmn definitely needs to hit a much larger platform to handle all of its needs. Theres no reason why a double battle should lag as hard as it did. Horde battles i understand because of how many pokemon on the screen at once but a double battle shouldnt be as slow as D/P

        • The problem is the 3DS. GF had to really push the limits. S/M already have frame rate issues. Plus the switch is a handheld, so there’s no issue there.

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        • Nothing, but if the handhelds aren’t putting decent picture then they can always do better. A console that can put out awesome graphics and be playable on the TV AND on Handheld that’s better in every way

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        • The fact that there is superior hardware
          As well as the fact that Game Freak has put more effort into pushing the limits of the 3DS graphically and technically but never used its greater power to create an expansive game with tons to do

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          • I believe Pokemon is a combination of the words “Pocket” and “Monsters”. Being on the Switch is already kinda stretching that.

          • What does that say of all the spin offs on the Wii and gamecube and so on? Gaming has changed quite a bit since the inception of pokemon. It doesn’t need to be tied down to things like that. Gamers and developers should want games that give us new experiences and overall give us the best game possible. The 3DS cannot provide that any more.

          • But wouldn’t moving to something like this require more pushing of Graphics? So there would be even less?

          • No? Not to the extent that Game Freak has done with SuMo. The only game to come close to that level of quality on the 3DS is… idk… Samus Returns? But in Pokemon’s case it comes at a cost.

            The 3DS is limited but for what Pokemon wants to do, the Switch is limitless. They can do whatever they want at this point. There is no pushing of the hardware limitations to wrestle with. They can just make the game

  15. Star?
    Ultron?
    Monekyfuzz?

    For some reason whilst I like Order of the pheonix for me it seems I can’t connect with it as I can with the other 7.
    I know it’s one of stars favourite HP films.
    Sooo tell me what do you guys think of order? What were the good points/moments in the film???

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    • Second to worst movie of the bunch. Pacing was off, weird script decisions compared to the books, and slightly different tone than originally intended. Some great actor performances though. And it’s still a serviceable movie, just not as good as the other movies.

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          • They botched the Cup Final, botched the chaos afterwards, there was soo much focus on the Triwizard Tournament that there was almost no life at Hogwarts shown anymore and then they botched the maze puzzles. At least the Voldemort scene was pretty great.

          • Well coming from the books I can understand but everything else was A+ for me from the acting, cinematography, the suspense, pacing of the film and the triwizard tournament and just about everything!
            Which is your fav HP movie?

          • Yeah ofc, movie is still pretty great, just one of the weaker movies.
            Think I’ll go 4 < 5 < 6 < 2 < 1 < 7P1 < 3 < 7P2.

          • Seriously the only good part of that movie is when Harry says goodbye to Ron and Hermione. That hit me in the feels. Also the resurrection stone in the forest part. I hate nearly everything else. Crap adaptation

          • I mean the gringotts scene was really good, the battle of Hogwarts was good too and the scene between snape and harry in the hall were great acting.

          • Hmm I guess so but for me deathly hallows were good. I guess having 2 parts saved us from losing as much as we did in the other books lol

          • That’s true. I like the movies, and alot of the pitfalls in the 7s were caused by things being left out in previous movies.

          • -No Teddy Lupin
            -Glossing over Lupin/Tonks/Fred’s deaths
            -Snapping Elder Wand???? ???? ????? He could’ve at least repaired his first…jesus christ
            -No redemption for Percy
            -NO FUCKING FINAL SPEECH BETWEEN HARRY AND VOLDEMORT. ARE YOU KIDDING ME
            -Bellatrix EXPLODES. She fucking explodes. Wtf.
            -No Ravenclaw common room. That’s a big no no to exclude that scene.
            -Voldemort and Draco hug. What??
            -Redesigned the layout of Hogwarts AGAIN. The old Hogwarts was fine.
            -Harry and Voldemort morphing heads while apparating. Okay.

          • The ravenclaw common room, what happens there? I can’t remember
            Ehh most of them I dont mind I guess the harry and voldy speech should have been added.
            Did you like part 1?

          • Luna takes Harry there because there’s a statue of Rowena Ravenclaw that shows what the diadem looks like. When he sees it he realizes that he’s seen it before in the room of requirement. It’s also a really great scene where Harry exposes his being back at hogwarts. The Carrows come in with McGonagall, they literally spit in her face, and Harry rips off the invisibility cloak and knocks them out. Which I thought was sweet because he has so much respect for her ;(

            Plus it’s just cool world building to see how the other houses THAT ARE NEVER MENTIONED live and exist.

          • Oh yeah that would have been awesome but as I mentioned below at least we got 2 parts to DH if we didnt imagine how much theyd miss from the books?

          • To me the harry and voldemort dialogue that they have at the end is really important. It basically wraps up their whole experience together and it’s nice because no one like ever gets to clap back at Voldemort in person without dying. I also think it’s important that when he’s killed that he actually has a body instead of disintegrating into a thousand pieces because it shows that despite all of his evil efforts to overcome death, in the end he was just a cruel and twisted man. Not a god, not a demon. Just a person.

            But I really like pt 1, I think that one’s better.

          • His dead body is necessary because it actually humanises him, forcing him to be just like everyone else, whatever their magical status, which is what he ultimately would’ve hated the most. It removes a level of satisfaction from his death that the book handles so well.

          • The only reason I am semi-OK with the less life at Hogwarts stuff is that we had just had 3 films of quite alot. It gets worse in the following films imo (although it’s not meant to be in 7s obviously).

        • Yeah I wish Dumbledore had manipulated the statues as shields like he did in the book. I also recall something like Fawkes being in the battle and taking an Avada Kedavra to protect him. And then the whole possession thing could’ve been explained better because they only spent like one scene talking about what occlumency is

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          • That annoyed me so much. Whilst the battle was great it was much better in the book. Not only did Dumbledore perform better and had the upper hand it was just the way he handled Voldemort. I guess im almost over it and appreciate the film adaption now kinda

          • They also miss out on so much of the Harry/Voldemort psychic bond that makes Occlumency necessary so it kind of makes the whole ministry trip seem more stupid of them. They also miss out on St.Mungos and seeing Nevilles parents.

          • Tbh most of the link between Harry and Neville is absent from the movies. Whilst it’s not necessarily glaring it is still quite disappointing for anyone who has read the books that essentially his entire character arc is omitted. I guess if we had 2 movies per book we might’ve gotten around 80% of book content.

    • Order of the Phoenix is the weakest of all the movies. It’s so forgettable and the only part that is memorable is the very end. And that’s only because they rehash the ending in the next 3 movies…….

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    • Thestrals are the best. Film 5 is a big tonal shift from the previous films, it also changes in overall look, becoming much darker. Changes from the books become rather more significant. Umbridge actually feels less sinister and oppressive in the film and more just annoying and unfair. Much of the Occlumency lessons are cut, including fairly important stuff. The battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort makes it seem more like Dumbledore is struggling which shouldn’t happen at this point. I do like the stuff with Dumbledores Army but again the book does it better. I do like the film but it is weaker. Luna is one of the best things in the film, and even then a large part of her story is cut. There’s time constraints and then there’s cutting important things like the Centaur stuff. They also changed Sirius’ Animagus form which just irritated me. There’s also the fact that you’ve just come out of GoF which feels like it has much higher stakes and is generally far more fun.

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    • Book? Amazing. Perhaps overly long, but stuffed with good content.
      The movie? Actually probably my least favorite. I appreciate the really nice moments between Luna and Harry. Those were perfect and it really captured their new friendship from the books. But some things are just kind of muddled in the translation from book to film. This was a big chance to make Ginny awesome, but they kinda failed her (especially in Half Blood Prince as well.) Grawp’s CGI is awful. The ministry battle is just weak, imo. It needed like 10 more minutes for that at least. They only went into two rooms when in the book there were so many cool rooms. I also really don’t like that they cut Quidditch. In the book it’s a huge deal that Harry is kicked off the team. Then he’s replaced by Ginny, which, again, would’ve been nice for her character. They also sort of glossed over the fact that it was Kreacher who sold Sirius out to Bellatrix (I believe that’s how it went). Probably more stuff honestly, I would have to read it again to make a full analysis. It was a daunting task to adapt it though, so I understand that some stuff was cut..but idk. Not as good as the other movies.

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      • Exactly! The battle at the ministry could have been much longer and the film could have added a little more with the pacing but I guess it had good points likr the acting and lol when Dunbledore escapes from the Fudge and co

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        • And the book just adds more urgency. Like when the brain latches onto Ron and Hermione is hit with the purple fire (I think?) and knocked unconscious. She’s their powerhouse essentially. Would’ve added quite a bit of tension

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  17. Sometimes when I’m SOS chaining I forget that I’ve clicked the counter and when I look down to actually do something I confuse myself because the count is a little off

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  18. I think all Wormhole Legendaries should have their Hidden Abilities at least 50/50. This would be very beneficial to Lugia and Ho-oh at least.

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  19. Any middle earth fans here?
    For some reason don’t ask lol I never watched Battle of the 5 armies! I hope to soon.
    Is it any goood??

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  21. Okay in a dramatic twist I’m leaving Hogwarts and Middle earth just to say why don’t the Superman films ever live up to expectations???

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    • In the case of man of steel, there is so much they did wrong.

      A major element is just not understanding what Superman is. He isn’t Batman. He’s not dark and brooding. He is a symbol of hope and freedom and justice. Man of Steel fails to show this by having him murder millions of people by fighting the baddie in a crowded city destroying property that would be considered one the biggest losses of human life at one time. That’s the exact opposite of what Superman is.

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          • It looks like they really ruined Aquaman. Just seems like a more-comical thor rip off now. And Cyborg’s cgi is still eye-catchingly bad. Wonder Woman will probably be good, though I doubt she will have any semblance of an arc. Idk about Flash. Never liked him as a character tbh

          • Well Wonder Woman did just get a whole movie to herself, which is what the other characters should’ve had before throwing them together (Avengers did it right). Cyborg does look bad, not sure how hard it is to get right but oh well. Hopefully we get a real Lex Luthor showing up, not that dweeb from BvS.

          • I have no hope for Lex Luthor. I’m really not worried about wonder woman for the reason you mentioned. Cyborg doesn’t deserve to even be on the roster, imo.

          • We all know why Cyborg is really there, unless it actually turns out he is necessary for the plot which I doubt. I’d rather have had Martian Manhunter.

          • Yeah I guess Man of Steel was still very good. I’ve only watched it once and should probably give it another chance.

            The Dark knight trilogy was epic wasn’t it?

          • The Dark Knight Trilogy is great, largely because it understands Batman. TDK is the best of them, Rises kind of suffers due to not being able to live up to its’ predecessor.

          • Horrible CGI, horrible additions to the story, overly long, unnecessary added characters, completely STUPID connections to the LotR that DID NOT need to exist. Morgul arrows? Are you joking????!? Legolas mario jumping up rocks. A troll being brought into battle when all four of its limbs are fucking peg legs!?!?! WTF!!?!? The Great Eagles being given no dialogue and instead are just lifeless McGuffins. Not to mention he couldn’t even get the most pivotal scene in the entire franchise right: when Bilbo and Gollum meet and he finds the ring. Instead of it being creepy, PJ decided to make Gollum cutesy and funny instead. Seriously the creature hasn’t had any amount of social interaction for a huge amount of time. And Bilbo stumbles upon him in a completely dark cave yet there’s literally no tension to the scene and it’s super bright in there. Just awful.

            Seriously if you have read the book, which you should, watch the 1977 animated Hobbit. The art style is a bit strange, but it gets the book mostly right and does it in like an hour and a half. I grew up watching that version and having the book read to me a young age so excuse me if I’m very passionate about how the movies turned out. PJ made great adaptations of the LotR books, but he got the Hobbit, my favorite, so so so wrong. I know part of it was studio interference, but it’s still his product and he should be ashamed

        • I enjoy them mostly. They are nothing compared to the LotR trilogy though. Part of the problem was that Peter Jackson wasn’t meant to be doing them himself but ended up having to which caused alot of issues for him.

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