The Hobbit series has pretty stylised cinematography – overly-stylised you could say – all smooth edges and colourised environments.
“I don’t know why he thinks those add to the movie,” a Reddit user wrote.
It stands out particularly egregiously, then, when you throw in some footage shot on GoPro.
Director Peter Jackson has priors when it comes to misguided filming techniques, sometimes dropping frames of footage to create a “pseudo-strobe” effect.