That is really one of the best examples there is for this particular topic. Same director, same setting and lore, presumably a lot of the same people worked on

That is really one of the best examples there is for this particular topic. Same director, same setting and lore, presumably a lot of the same people worked on both sets of films. And yet for many people the Hobbit trilogy falls flat. The CGI often seems at fault here; for me the immersion was lost in the larger battle scenes, where the LOTR trilogy rarely interrupted the suspension of disbelieve.