Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings (polygon.com)

Bad movies, for example the Hobbit after the LoTR always amaze me as a human endeavor. So many smart people working together, organized, talented, funded, etc., can still make a really awful movie. It's so interesting.

We live in the times when Jackson's LoTR, which was not faithful to the source, is considered a gold standard of "humanity"?

I will watch any movie or genre where it has a good story and character development.

Why don't they focus on this more?

In other words, Hollywood executives lack humanity.