Because breaking the Hobbit into just 2 films wouldn't make enough money...

[Serv]

https://www.facebook.com/notes/peter-jackson/an-unexpected-journey/10151114596546558

 

Good ole Pete Jack(pot)son has made the Hobbit into 3 movies now.

 

Thanks to Scott of the St Pete Geeks for the thread...and middle finger to Pete Jacpot for making me shell out an additional $12 for the new third film.

[Edward Crosby]

I welcome it and thank him for allowing me to give him my $12. I'm excited and glad it will be three movies, as long as they are released in consecutive years like The Lord of the Rings.

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[Jason Service]

I guess i should be happy he did LotR books before Hobbit in this case. If the hobbit is a 3 film book, then Fellowship would now be a 3 film book, the two towers would be a 4 film book and Return of the King woudl be a whopping 5 movie book.

[Luke Jaconetti]

All kidding aside, I think that Jackson has more than earned my trust when it comes to how he will handle these (now) three films. 

 

I very much look forward to them, even if it will be difficult to see all of them in the theater like my wife and I did for LOTR.

On Monday, July 30, 2012 1:37:44 PM UTC-4, Serv wrote:

I guess i should be happy he did LotR books before Hobbit in this case. If the hobbit is a 3 film book, then Fellowship would now be a 3 film book, the two towers would be a 4 film book and Return of the King woudl be a whopping 5 movie book.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Edward Crosby <ecr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I welcome it and thank him for allowing me to give him my $12. I'm excited and glad it will be three movies, as long as they are released in consecutive years like The Lord of the Rings.

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Have a Better One,
Edward Crosby
http://about.me/edwardcrosby

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Serv <ser...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/peter-jackson/an-unexpected-journey/10151114596546558

 

Good ole Pete Jack(pot)son has made the Hobbit into 3 movies now.

 

Thanks to Scott of the St Pete Geeks for the thread...and middle finger to Pete Jacpot for making me shell out an additional $12 for the new third film.

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[Shag]

I'll be that guy...  I'll be skipping the three Hobbit movies in theaters.  If it was one film, I'd probably go see it.  Three movies?  No thanks.  I'll catch them on Netflix.

While I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings films, they weren't "Must See" movies for me.  I guess because it's Fantasy.  Fantasy has never really been my thing. I'm the kind of guy that resents bookstores that put Sci-Fi and Fantasy together in the same section.  

I can certainly appreciate how well put together the previous three films were.  They were breathtakingly beautiful, acted very well, and wonderfully scored.  It's just the subject matter that barely holds my interest.  I know the story of The Hobbit already, so I'm even less inclined to get excited about shelling out for three more movies.  It seems they are dragging it out in order to make more money, not for storytelling.  I'm sure Peter Jackson can fill three movies, but it seems more motivated by the studios in order to get more cash.  Oh what the heck, why not make them 3D also!  Maybe invent a new up-charge, "Smell-o-Vision"!

The Irredeemable (and apparently cranky) Shag

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[Van]

I was just tweeting about that last night.  If THE HOBBIT qualifies for three movies, then LORD OF THE RINGS should qualify for at least NINE, since each book is longer than the HOBBIT.  But of course a whole lot of what we're probably going to see in the HOBBIT movies will actually come from the appendices of RINGS-- the stuff going on elsewhere while Bilbo was on his quest with the dwarves.

And RETURN OF THE KING isn't the longest of the three--it's the shortest.  At least a third of that book is appendices.  FELLOWSHIP is the longest.  Jackson simply chopped a whole lot of it out of the movie (even the extended edition).  If he'd stuck closer to the book--and I'm glad he didn't--the journey to Bree and the Prancing Pony would have lasted another half-hour (including the Barrow Downs and then Tom Bombadil) and the Council of Elrond would have been another 45 minutes.  Eeek.

I'm fine with this, really.  It's not like they're taking the existing movies and chopping them down into smaller bites.  Instead they are (apparently) adding a whole new movie's worth of material, and that's all to the good.

Shag-- to each his own.  I don't like Fantasy much at all, in general, but the RINGS books are among my all-time favorites, and the Fellowship movie remains my all-time #1 film.  They're just so much superior to everything else of that type, which again I don't really like.

--Van

On Monday, July 30, 2012 12:37:44 PM UTC-5, Serv wrote:

I guess i should be happy he did LotR books before Hobbit in this case. If the hobbit is a 3 film book, then Fellowship would now be a 3 film book, the two towers would be a 4 film book and Return of the King woudl be a whopping 5 movie book.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Edward Crosby <ecr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I welcome it and thank him for allowing me to give him my $12. I'm excited and glad it will be three movies, as long as they are released in consecutive years like The Lord of the Rings.

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Have a Better One,
Edward Crosby
http://about.me/edwardcrosby

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Serv <ser...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/peter-jackson/an-unexpected-journey/10151114596546558

 

Good ole Pete Jack(pot)son has made the Hobbit into 3 movies now.

 

Thanks to Scott of the St Pete Geeks for the thread...and middle finger to Pete Jacpot for making me shell out an additional $12 for the new third film.

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