I still can’t stop but think how stretched out the Hobbit films were, for an otherwise short book. That’s a sin that stains forever with me. The Lord of the Rings films, do have their own flaws, but they’re fairly contained and can be debated as to whether they were good or not. I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though.
And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion. Simply because, there will be so much improvised fluff in that would-be film, that it’d make the Hobbit films blush.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Major Gilbert is revealed to be alive. And she goes back to him. And it’s implied to be romantic.
The whole series was about her escaping her past as a child soldier and learning to live a normal life, and they end it by having her go right back to him. But it’s okay, he may have made her into a child soldier, but he was kind sometimes, so he’s a good guy and definitely not an abuser! And he was the closest thing she ever had to a father figure, but now that she’s all grown up she can love him and that’s perfectly normal! This is a great finale that doesn’t undermine the whole show that led up to it, and isn’t fucked up at all!
The rest of the show is still so damn good, just pretend the movie never happened.