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People just did not connect as well to this one as they did to Fellowship. The book is a simple adventure quest whereas FOTR is the staging of an epic good vs evil showdown for the fate of a world. That makes for a very different film. In places the Hobbit was overly indulgent, and takes much too long to get going. Jackson took what should have been a fast 2 part adventure and turned it into a drawn thin prequel/bridge/hybrid trilogy. The film does many things good, but nothing great, and settles somewhere above decent.
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By great I mean something that changes the industry or shakes conventions. LOTR did this in many areas. The Hobbit by comparison feels very been there done that and doesn't offer much in the way of game changing.
And, yes, the LOTR was indulgent, but like I said people connected to that better, and forgave it its indulgences. What makes it worse too is that everyone knows the Hobbit is a 250 page book stretched to three nearly 3 hour films. It makes the Hobbit's indulgences look even worse, because they were unneccesary whereas LOTR was 1200 page story and indulgences were expected.
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Jackson gets 3 paychecks instead of 2. and the same for WETA. they work on 3 movies and not on 2. everyone gets more work.
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I think the two weakest sections of the film were the White Council and the end climax. The rest of the film was superb, however, in my opinion. I think we won't really be sure if splitting it all into 3 films was a good idea or not until we see the next two.
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Again, I must insist upon asking, why did they feel the need to make the Great Goblin's breasts so true to life? Who the hell would want to buy that toy?
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Being captured and escaping from the Goblin City would probably be too similar to being captured and Escaping from the Elves to really be in one film. The original split was at the barrels right? |
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There are... worse aspects of the Great Goblin toy than the breasts.
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Well, $300M is done. 5th film of 2012 to cross that line.
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Well, since I am not making that specific purchase, I will never experience the thrill of discovery at viewing what is under that loincloth.
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I actually was referring to the chin.
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I personally dont get why people didnt connect with The Hobbit as much as LOTR, while it wasnt as good as any of the LOTR movies, I still LOVED The Hobbit and personally cannot wait until the sequels. The next 2 cant come soon enough for me.
Now, the movie was a bit over-long, mostly at the start for me, but once they got out of The Shire the movie kicked into gear and I couldnt tear my eyes away, I will happily go and see 2 more.
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I imagine they are not without similarities.
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Maybe he should have a chin cloth.
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No, man, that's still to come... and I'm super excited about it!
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Same here, in fact I cant wait to have all 6 movies in EE and be able to watch them one after the other.
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