The Hobbit

[janedavitt]

Guess where I'll be at 7.00 p.m. Dec 13th? Watching The Hobbit! David's company have booked the cinema for a pre-showing, tickets ten dollars.

I'm rolling my eyes that it's a trilogy and wishing PJ had simply done one movie and stuck to the book, but still so excited. Weird that in a lot of Europe, that IS the release day, or even the 12th, but in Canada/US it's the 14th. Even allowing for datelines, that's strangely staggered.

Comments

[sid]

w00t!

Trilogy, pffft. Maybe one long movie with an intermission if needed. Nobody does intermissions any more, right? That would have generated talk and made the movie stand out without getting silly.

[janedavitt]

A trilogy is ridiculous. They're bringing in all sorts of stuff from the appendices and it's so not needed.

[realpestilence]

Well, there go any intentions I had to see it. But I hope you have fun.

[janedavitt]

I was miffed at two movies -- three is plain silly.

[princessofgeeks]

I can't wait!

I think they pulled in a whole bunch of Gandalf's story; stuff we only learned about until MUCH LATER.

But I have no idea how they'll pull it off. I'm interested to see, though.

[janedavitt]

I can't lie; I love The Hobbit too much not to regret this expansion, but I'm excited for sure.

[vamysteryfan]

Lucky dog! I hope it's wonderful!

When Jackson announced it was going to three movies I was not happy. The book just isn't substantive enough for that. He must be inserting a lot of the backstory from the Appendices.

[janedavitt]

I believe so and tbh, they're dry as dust IMO. The Hobbit deserves to shine as is.