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I don't go to movie theaters much anymore. So I hadn't seen Peter Jackson's three movie The Hobbit yet. I saw a set with it and the Lord of the Rings trilogy together and decided to buy. It reduces the number of boxes and total occupied space on my DVD shelf and I can give one of my great nieces or nephews my old copies of LoTR.
I like The Hobbit book more than the LoTR books. I like Bilbo much more than Frodo. For me there were a lot fewer tedious passages in the Hobbit. Don't get me wrong, I like Lego-Blocks and Gimlet, the elven ladies, elegant Galagirl and buck-toothed Arhem, the far striding Air-o'-Horn, and others but it's a chore to plow through it all.
I liked the LotR movies better than the books. But I was not encouraged when I heard Jackson was making The Hobbit into three movies. This was going to take a lot of filler.
And seeing them, there was a lot of filler. I never did catch the name of the elf who wanted to be Kili's girlfriend, and who Legolas was chasing through battles and burning towns and hours of run time, cause he wanted her for his own girlfriend (though his dad didn't approve, alas and alack). At least I can say that Kili was in the book! Then there was Thorin demonstrating he was losing his mind, by saying over and over and over he wasn't going to give anyone a coin of his treasure, no matter what he said he owed them before. We got it the first time, Jackson! We could have seen a few seconds less of every battle, when each noble character was mowing down dozens of seemingly helpless orcs, too. Yes, there were a bazillion orcs, but Whoever-it-was-this-time, was killing them fast enough to make them extinct before the third movie.
The Hobbit particularly the second and third movies didn't have enough breathing space for me. It was one mortal threat, one battle, one intense dramatic moment after another. It was like eating too much candy at once. I actually felt a little nauseous. Fortunately, in the scene in the second movie where Legolas is chasing She-Whom-I-Ought-to-Name-But-Can't who is chasing Kili and the rest of the dwarves flowing down the river in barrels, the two elves fighting the orcs on the shore look so ridiculous I had to laugh, breaking the tension, before I had to shut off the DVD for a while to rest.
I was pleased to see that the three The Hobbit movies aren't rated as high as the LotR movies. They aren't horrible, but in some ways, they are too much!
I like The Hobbit book more than the LoTR books. I like Bilbo much more than Frodo. For me there were a lot fewer tedious passages in the Hobbit. Don't get me wrong, I like Lego-Blocks and Gimlet, the elven ladies, elegant Galagirl and buck-toothed Arhem, the far striding Air-o'-Horn, and others but it's a chore to plow through it all.
I liked the LotR movies better than the books. But I was not encouraged when I heard Jackson was making The Hobbit into three movies. This was going to take a lot of filler.
And seeing them, there was a lot of filler. I never did catch the name of the elf who wanted to be Kili's girlfriend, and who Legolas was chasing through battles and burning towns and hours of run time, cause he wanted her for his own girlfriend (though his dad didn't approve, alas and alack). At least I can say that Kili was in the book! Then there was Thorin demonstrating he was losing his mind, by saying over and over and over he wasn't going to give anyone a coin of his treasure, no matter what he said he owed them before. We got it the first time, Jackson! We could have seen a few seconds less of every battle, when each noble character was mowing down dozens of seemingly helpless orcs, too. Yes, there were a bazillion orcs, but Whoever-it-was-this-time, was killing them fast enough to make them extinct before the third movie.
The Hobbit particularly the second and third movies didn't have enough breathing space for me. It was one mortal threat, one battle, one intense dramatic moment after another. It was like eating too much candy at once. I actually felt a little nauseous. Fortunately, in the scene in the second movie where Legolas is chasing She-Whom-I-Ought-to-Name-But-Can't who is chasing Kili and the rest of the dwarves flowing down the river in barrels, the two elves fighting the orcs on the shore look so ridiculous I had to laugh, breaking the tension, before I had to shut off the DVD for a while to rest.
I was pleased to see that the three The Hobbit movies aren't rated as high as the LotR movies. They aren't horrible, but in some ways, they are too much!