20 Times Directors You Trust Totally Let You Down

The Director:

New Zealand director Peter Jackson made some acclaimed smaller films early on, but of course it's his masterful Lord of the Rings Trilogy that he's most well-known for.

The Film:

Clearly desperate to repeat the Lord of the Rings success, Peter Jackson turned The Hobbit - a 300 page children's novel - into a trilogy of three hour movies. The results were divisive to say the least.

This inevitably led to all three of the Hobbit films being stretched far beyond breaking point, but nowhere is this more evident than in An Unexpected Journey. This remains, by far and away, the worst Middle Earth movie and is a chore to sit through.

Everyone came in expecting another dazzling adventure, and what they got instead was what felt more like a long and endless trudge through some fields. There are, of course, some major highlights along the way, but those don't make this any less exhausting to watch. Even Peter Jackson, whose usual skill is often absent here, admitted he didn't know what he was doing.

Has He Bounced Back?

The next two Hobbit films were improvements, but only The Desolation of Smaug felt up to his normal standard out of the trilogy. He's got no directing projects lined up, so this is pending.