10 Movies You Should Refuse To Watch On Moral Grounds

7. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

There are major two reasons why a movie-goer might object to a viewing of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of three flicks in Peter Jackson's long-awaited adaptation. First of all, the movie is undeniably questionable for the way in which it announced itself as the first in an unnecessary three-part trilogy; An Unexpected Journey was Jackson's declaration that: "hey, you'll be paying three times as much as you should be in order to watch this adaptation." Morally, that's just wrong; audiences deserved a whole lot better. Secondly, though (and worst of all), 27 animals were killed during the making of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey due to neglect, many of which died as a result of exhaustion and dehydration - a fact that did nothing to stop audiences from filling up theatres everywhere when the movie came out, by the way, because who cares about 27 animal deaths? Thing is, if audiences ignore things like this when they happen, Hollywood has no reason to try to stop the same thing from occurring across future productions. 27 animals is a lot of animals; nobody would likely argue against it being morally wrong to pay to watch something that resulted in so much unnecessary death.