10 Times That Hollywood Misunderstood The Impact Of Big-Budget Movies
3. Splitting Stories Into Multiple Parts Does Not Always Make Sense
This particular trend may not be as prevalent as it was in the early to mid-2010s, but its exhausting prominence during that era cannot be ignored. Splitting a franchise’s final chapter into two parts may make sense for a handful of stories, but the way Hollywood used it in recent years was both nonsensical and risky to do.
The likes of Harry Potter and Twilight may have had necessitated splitting their final books into two films (less so for the latter), but franchises such as the Hobbit, Divergent and to some degree the Hunger Games could not justify their multiple entries.
The Hobbit in particular felt like padding pushed beyond its limits, with most of its scenes failing to drive the story forward and only serving as a cynical means of making more money from more films. Divergent was so bad as a franchise that its concluding two-parter did not even happen.
Ultimately, if the source material is incredibly layered (a story such as Dune comes to mind), then splitting the story into multiple parts makes sense. If not, as with the above examples, then splitting the story simply hurts it.