I just watched a wonderful critique of The Hobbit movies
A few years ago (2012 or 2013 I think?) there was a multipart YouTube series from a channel called “RedLetterMedia” that broke down all the reasons why the Star Wars prequels just didn’t work, everything from general storytelling to contradicting worldbuilding in the original trilogy. That series was punctuated with some very disturbing “framing elements” … I just watched a wonderful critique of The Hobbit movies