[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=28182753#p28182753:14hjrai0 said:
Pokrface[/url]":14hjrai0]I watched the first Hobbit movie in a great theater with my wife. We came away disappointed in the soulless spectacle.
I watched most of the second Hobbit movie on an airplane and I quit paying attention after the barrels.
Won't be watching the third one. Life's too short for that crap.
This was my experience precisely. The LOTR movies were very good adaptations of the material. Loved all three of them, watched them more than once each in theater, and own the extended edition disk sets.
The Hobbit, from the two movies I've seen so far, resides firmly at the opposite pole - everything Hollywood can do to mess up the adaptation of a book to film is perfectly represented here. What a flippin' shame. I'll be passing on the third film, and won't be purchasing the disks at all.
I remember reading an interview with Jackson several years ago, just before The Fellowship of the Ring was released. They were asking him why he did LOTR first, instead of starting with The Hobbit. Jackson replied that he never particularly cared for the latter book, and felt that LOTR was much more "literature". Apparently that contempt for The Hobbit remains. It certainly shows in the result.
