My problem with "The Hobbit"

As I was watching it, I noticed many things in the movie that were not in the book.

As the movie was nearing its end, I thought to myself, There is going to be a second movie, because this is not how it ended.

I had no idea at the time that the movie was made into a trilogy.

How in the frell did they make a trilogy out of the small book? Where the first movie ended, there were only a few chapters left in the book.

Honestly, the next two installments better be worth it, but I have a feeling it may actually make me wish they had not tried to make the movies.

 

never saw of those movies

 

The first movie just came out last year. The next two installments will be released this year and next year.

 

I was cool with it. It'd be different if they took stuff out then added other stuff, but they didn't.

I think they're pulling the added material from known Tolkien canon. He rewrote the Hobbit at some point in the style of Lord of the Rings, but they didn't want to republish it. He did get the rewrite in Riddles in the Dark. That's why it's in a little different style than the rest of the book.

 

No novel can ever been done justice by a movie of just an hour and a half.

 

The three hours devoted to the first movie would have been enough time to accurately portray the entire book. Have you even read it?

 

Multiple times.

 

I can't wait until the fat Dwarf falls asleep in that river, and everyone has to carry him.

I hope that's the majority of the second movie.

 

I haven't seen the Hobbit yet. I'm not sure how I feel about it being a trilogy. I don't really think its neccessary but I'll give it a chance.

I was actually really disappointed to learn that Peter Jackson was directing it. I didn't really care for his interpretation of the Lord of the Rings. I don't really think he captured some of the more fantastical elements of the books.

and no Tom Bombadil. wtf? I know its kind of an extraneous part of the first book and not really crucial to the plot, but its just such a great part of the book. What LOTR fan doesn't love Tom Bombadil and would love to see him depicted on the big screen?

so if the Hobbit is a trilogy then every little detail of the book better be included

 

I know what you mean. I actually enjoyed the LOTR films, but the fact that they excluded Tom Bombadil was unacceptable.

 

What sort of foolish person still thinks books and movies will be the same.

 

The optimistic kind. You should try optimism sometime.

 

I loved the book and the movie. You're the judgemental one.

 

Thank you for the compliment.

 

According to a report by the Associated Press, animal wranglers hired to oversee some 150 animals used in the films say 27 of them died because they were housed on a treacherous farm full of “death traps,” including bluffs, sinkholes and jagged fencing. The dead include a miniature pony called Rainbow, hired as a hobbit horse, who crashed off a bank on the farm and broke his back. When the wrangler found him in the morning, he was still alive, and later had to be euthanized.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/19...ing-of-the-hobbit-say-handlers/#ixzz2NNXjJppd


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That is so sad.

 

I read about those poor animals before I saw the film, it almost put me off watching.

As a lotr and hobbit fan, I personally preffered the lotr films but I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with for the next two hobbit films. I have to agree that the book was almost finished by the time the film ended and I cant quite see how they can potentially create another 6 hours from a few chapters. The film is only based on the book though, so they could add anything in, I just hope they don't fill the time with pointless side stories that go nowhere and are irrelevant.

The book is one you can read over and over but the movie isn't one I think I could watch too many times. I can watch lotr over and over, infact, on Saturday I am partaking in a lotr marathon yay!

 

LOTR films....great

The hobbit blew . It was awful.

 

I haven't seen any of these films... I doubt highly that the magic of Tolkien can be captured in film...

 

Not quite .... but, IMO, Peter Jackson did an excellent job with the first three movies.

I haven't seen The Hobbit yet but I suppose that they rolled quite a bit of The Silmarillion into it to stretch the whole thing to over 10 hours.