Product: The Hobbit [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 1.0
Tragically disappointing
I can see I'm not the only one. What the heck happened here? The visual quality of one my favorite childhood movies is pathetic. The picture is so dark that most of the movie is unwatchable. I found myself not even looking at the screen, but merely listening to the dialog and shaking my head in sorrow at the ruined treasure.More, when the action gets busy, like when fire is swirling around, the picture is pixelated.Third, I counted at least four times where the content skipped or repeated. There are no scratches on the disk, and these instances did not occur during the "commercial break" parts. Gandalf's line about Mirkwood was cut off midway through his sentence, the content mysterious gone, and Bard's welcoming the dwarves to Laketown repeated twice. It's like an incompetent rip-job off YouTube.This is the lousiest conversion to DVD I have ever encountered, and it makes me so upset that anyone would put out something of this quality and expect money for it.