The hobbit book trilogy5/23/2023 ![]() The most recent film, The Battle of the Five Armies, which covers approximately 72 pages of the novel, is 144 minutes long, allotting 2 minutes per page. With a total 474 minute running time (approximately 542 minutes for the extended editions) to its measly 293 page count, The Hobbit is unprecedented in how stretched the film is. Their conclusion? The Hobbit series is the most stretched film adaptation of a novel. But is the book actually stretched or do we just feel like it is? Well, Walt Hickey from the “ Data Lab” over at has taken a look at the numbers of running times and page counts of a wide swath of films adapted from popular novels to answer the question. I totally agree with that sentiment, making for a punishing 474 minutes of film to watch. ![]() One of the biggest complaints with Peter Jackson‘s adaptation of The Hobbit has been the unnecessary stretching of a simple, rather brief book into a bloated, three-movie series. ![]()
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