For or Against?

[Torongil]

How does everyone think the movie The Hobbit will turn out? I heard a lot of people saying that it is going to be a failure, and nothing compared to the book.. So what do you guys think?

[Galin]

Well I think individual expectations (at least) depend in some measure upon whether or not one is for Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, especially if he becomes the director (if it is not already confirmed that is).

I always thought that The Hobbit was going to be 'enough' like Jackson's Lord of the Rings no matter who directed it, because Jackson's beast is still too big to be ignored by those who have no reason to ignore it -- I mean, there's no arguing it didn't make a lot of money and win awards, regardless of opinions of how faithful or unfaithful an adaptation it is. I guess it's quite possible that someone would put up a ton of money to back a director who intended to wholly disregard Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, but I think it's unlikely, at this point anyway.




For myself I don't like Jackson's style of making films (my opinion here includes King Kong). I don't agree with him concerning what he (apparently) thinks is good filmmaking -- and I think he and his writing team all too often put their own ideas of what is 'good', or their own ideas concerning what audiences today will or will not accept, over Tolkien's tale and its spirit and tone.

So while anything is possible, do I generally expect to like these Hobbit films? No.


I'm sure plenty of people expect to like or love them however, because they like or love what Jackson has already done.

[brownjenkins]

I'm looking forward to it!

I enjoy movie adaptations of books i like, good or bad.