The Hobbit to become a trilogy

[Darth Wagtaros]

I know the plan is to add stuff from the LOTR Appendices, but a Gandalf romance? Fighting Sauron in Mirkwood? It just seems silly.

Don't know anything about a "Gandalf romance" but the Battle of Dol Guldur is from the books.

My concern isn't that there is enough material to make three movies.  My concern is that making these into three movies might make Jackson more inclined to include some of his disastrous and silly "additions."  His wife "gets" Tolkien; Jackson does not.

This.  Driving The Necromancer out of Dol Guldur was in the books, though I don't know that it was a hugeass battle to the death, as it'll likely get turned into here. I had issues with a lot of Jackson's interpretations from Lord of the Rings.  This was a childrens' book, and not a long one.  A lot of it was part travelogue too.  Hard to turn it into an eight hour cinematic epic.

[crazy canuck]

Just going by the source material, Lord of the Rings was a much bigger work than The Hobbit, so I'm not sure the fact that the former could support a trilogy means that the latter can as well.

A lot of the material in the Lord of the Rings didnt make it onto the screen and some of it was oversimplified to the point of stupidity - the infamous green blob.

There is a lot of material in the Hobbit to draw from.  Not as much as the Lord of the Rings I agree.  But this way, hopefully he is able to stay more true to the source material rather than putting his own interpretation on things as he squeezes it into a two hour movie.

[CountDeMoney]

If the LotR series did anything for me, it is that it has turned me off to almost all modern films.  At least, the drama/action ones.  They pretty much all just seem way over-the-top, or like they're always trying too hard to please an audience that has "seen it all".  Or pandering to mindless fanboys/girls.

I find myself returning more to the quaint simplicity of older, classic films. 

LOTR fanboiism aside, I didn't feel that way until Avatar, actually.  That's the one that did it.

[Razgovory]

If the LotR series did anything for me, it is that it has turned me off to almost all modern films.  At least, the drama/action ones.  They pretty much all just seem way over-the-top, or like they're always trying too hard to please an audience that has "seen it all".  Or pandering to mindless fanboys/girls.

I find myself returning more to the quaint simplicity of older, classic films. 

LOTR fanboiism aside, I didn't feel that way until Avatar, actually.  That's the one that did it.

Glad I missed that one.

[Darth Wagtaros]

If the LotR series did anything for me, it is that it has turned me off to almost all modern films.  At least, the drama/action ones.  They pretty much all just seem way over-the-top, or like they're always trying too hard to please an audience that has "seen it all".  Or pandering to mindless fanboys/girls.

I find myself returning more to the quaint simplicity of older, classic films. 

LOTR fanboiism aside, I didn't feel that way until Avatar, actually.  That's the one that did it.

Glad I missed that one.

Word.

[Scipio]

Beorn?

We can only hope so.

[CountDeMoney]

Glad I missed that one.

Word.

Didn't miss much.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Glad I missed that one.

Word.

Didn't miss much.

Struck me as just another tawdry melodrama like Titanic with lot's of expensive eyecandy overlaying it.

[Razgovory]

Looked like "dances with blue cat aliens", to me.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Beorn?

to be alive?

[CountDeMoney]

Looked like "dances with blue cat aliens", to me.

Yup.  The Last Samurai against Teh Evul Environment Raping Mega Interstellar Bain Capital Corporation(tm):  who I would normally root against, but not against aliens, and stupid looking ones at that.

Stephen Lang deserved better. 

Oh yeah, and on topic:  saw on the ticker this AM that Cameron announced the sequel, due 2015.  Yahoo.

[Malthus]

Beorn?

to be alive?

... to be wild. [/Steppenwolf] 

[mongers]

Yes because bloat and lack of efficient editing is a positive? Color me skeptical.

And too true; really did the guy lose the keys to the edit suite and has been too embarassed to tell anyone for the last 10 years ?

[grumbler]

I am astonished the people think the problems with The Lord of the Rings movies were due to editing! 

The problem was with the writing (hobbits bouncing on beds, green slime people, Aragorn's story completely fucked up, elves at Helm's Deep, orcs attacking fortifications with pikes at Helm's Deep, horses riding down vertical walls, etc).  The editing wasn't brilliant, but it was competent, and good editing would be hard to do for such a complex story.

The only real editing blunder I saw was including all that silly stuff with Aragorn falling off the cliff, and then excluding the end of the Sauraman story.   The editors got their priorities wrong, there.

[derspiess]

If the LotR series did anything for me, it is that it has turned me off to almost all modern films.  At least, the drama/action ones.  They pretty much all just seem way over-the-top, or like they're always trying too hard to please an audience that has "seen it all".  Or pandering to mindless fanboys/girls.

I find myself returning more to the quaint simplicity of older, classic films. 

LOTR fanboiism aside, I didn't feel that way until Avatar, actually.  That's the one that did it.

Glad I missed that one.

Yeah, I got that feeling from the trailer for Avatar, and decided I'd not waste the time watching it.  And everyone telling me I just had to watch it unknowingly made me even more resistant.