Film rants- Split ends

Don't worry, this isn't an article about the evolution of hairstyles in the history of cinema, although American Hustle would deserve an article about hairstyles on its own.

This may seem a little late, since this phenomenon has been going for a few years now (4, I think) and it seems to be the expectation now that every final film in a series has to be split into 2 parts, or 3 in the case of The Hobbit (overkill, obviously). This really bothers me, if that wasn't in any way obvious already.

Firstly, I find it incredibly annoying that due to the film being split into two, the 1st part is almost always incredibly tedious and quite boing. Look, for example, at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1; an almost pointless addition to an otherwise entertaining franchise. Another obvious example that could go here is the much more recent The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1; now, I am a big fan of the Hunger Games franchise and even found this part rather enjoyable, but it's really hard to look past the fact that the entire film looks like a 2 hour long trailer for what will most likely be a much better film.

The clearest example of there being a film split into multiple for the sake of nothing but revenue would obviously be the Hobbit franchise. The Hobbit; a children's story no more than 300 pages long was somehow turned into three separate films because of the long lost "footnotes" that had been found. There was a reason that these footnotes didn't make it into the book, and yet Peter Jackson and the executives at Warner Bros. still found it necessary to turn this franchise into a new Middle Earth trilogy, they must've realised that it was never going to be as good as the original LOTR trilogy. 

The biggest problem is, it doesn't seem like this trend is going away any time soon. There was, for example, the announcement that the third Avengers film, Infinity War, was going to be split into two films. Granted, I will be slightly biased towards these films as I am, more than anything else, an absolute geek, but nevertheless, there seems no reason as to why this couldn't just be out into one 2 and a half hour long film. 

Oh well, I suppose that splitting films is here to stay for the time being, hopefully it won't last too much longer, but audiences will still keep going to see the conclusion to a story, so it would seem hypocritical of me to complain about it too much.