These “How It Should Have Ended” videos are addictive. Fortunately there are plenty of targets.
Next on the firing range is — How The Desolation of Smaug Should Have Ended.
David Klaus sent me the link with his observation: “I really don’t like that the book was so padded with enough material to make three movies.” He thinks the limit should be, “One moderately long film or two mid-length movies as Rankin-Bass did.”
I think it was a sad lost opportunity that Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of Mountain King symphony piece was NOT used for scenes under or wthin the mountain.