The Hobbit

[Fish42]

I'm sure I'll watch it, but I agree splitting it into 3 feels like needless padding.  LOTR deserved 3 movies.  The Hobbit...  I could see splitting it in 2, not three.

Wiley.

The thing is, its not just the hobbit. They have added a large chunk from the events which are talked about in the other Tolkien works which were going on at the same time.

[vorticon]

its far better than LOTR. instead of spending 3 movies walking through middle earth, they'll be spending 3 movies running through middle earth.

take that, Randal.

[Tank-Ace]

Heres my opinion so far:

Hobbit > Fellowship
Hobbit = Two Towers
Hobbit < Return of the King


However, I'm worried that the LOTR trillogy will be better than the Hobbit trillogy as a whole.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Heres my opinion so far:

Hobbit > Fellowship
Hobbit = Two Towers
Hobbit < Return of the King


However, I'm worried that the LOTR trillogy will be better than the Hobbit trillogy as a whole.

The book > movies

[Tank-Ace]

I don't know. I feel Tolkien went too far into detail with the descriptions in the LOTR books. I cannot get through them.

[Wiley]

I don't know. I feel Tolkien went too far into detail with the descriptions in the LOTR books. I cannot get through them.

The funny thing is, I read the hobbit in grade school.  It was assigned reading and although I love to read, for some reason if it was for school, my brain switched modes from 'enjoy reading this' to 'learn this for the test' mode.  I honestly can't remember a damn thing about that book other than the fact that the descriptions were huuuuuge.

Wiley.

[doright]

I saw it in HFR (48 fps) 3D. My impression was that the movie was amazingly real looking, sometimes almost like you were watching a live stage performance - from on the stage. Often that was good, sometimes not, and occasionally stunning. It dragged its large hairy feet at getting going, and the staging/acting, not surprisingly, had a British drama feel to it. The scene near the end (book readers think rescue from wargs and goblins) was alone worth the price of admission. Not to mention Cate Blanchett in HFR 3D.

[Tank-Ace]

The funny thing is, I read the hobbit in grade school.  It was assigned reading and although I love to read, for some reason if it was for school, my brain switched modes from 'enjoy reading this' to 'learn this for the test' mode.  I honestly can't remember a damn thing about that book other than the fact that the descriptions were huuuuuge.

Wiley.

I'm talking the LOTR trillogy books, as in the Fellowship, Towers, and Return.

I enjoyed The Hobbit very much, though I did think the movie was better purely because of the fight sequences, and the pale orc.

[kilo2]

The books are great, all of them.