Ryan McNeilI don’t believe in “hate-watching”, but if there’s any franchise I’m consuming despite my better judgement, it’s The Hobbit.
I have a strange relationship with Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.
While I excitedly approached and soaked up THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and THE TWO TOWERS, I came away from THE RETURN OF THE KING a little cold (I blame the seventeen endings). What’s more, I found myself rolling my eyes at that year’s Oscar love-in for the film I’d found the weakest…a love-in that seemed to be as much about the trilogy as a whole, and not that one specific film.
Fast-forward to Peter Jackson returning to the series with a new trilogy of films: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this feels like overkill.
There’s been very little in this new trilogy that has matched the joy that the first trilogy brought me. Hell, the second film left so little impression on me that I didn’t even review it.
So now here we are about to go back to Middle Earth one more time (final time?). I’m going to see it, and as always I will hope for the best. But just in case I don’t review that film either and this is my last chance to discuss Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy, let me just go on record as saying that I wish the project had died on the vine when Guillermo del Toro walked away…and that Peter Jackson could have spent these last several years working on other ideas. Ideas more original, and dare I suggest, more exciting.
5 years later…
BREAKING… Peter Jackson announces new trilogy; “Gandalf… The Teenage Years”
…and I thought I got bad nightmares from eating too soon before going to bed.
LOL to ^ comment! Hahahaha
Also, I feel ya. I’m actually a HUGE HUGE fan of the LOTR trilogy. Those movies defined my high school/early college years. My favorite of the three is Fellowship, although my favorite scene from the trilogy is in Two Towers (when Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli storm Rohan, kick some ass, and “wake” up King Theoden). However, I do have a lot of love for Return of the King as well.
ANYWAYS . . .
Alas, I’m exhausted with Peter Jackson and The Hobbit “trilogy” as well, considering he’s making the movies just as much about The Silmarillion as they are about The Hobbit. Kind of. I was so disappointed with both films, that I have little hope left for the final one.
As a “HUGE HUGE fan”, you’d probably be of the same mindset as my wife who suggested the other day that we stay in some weekend and marathon the whole trilogy.
…like I can’t think of anything else to do with more than nine hours?
“the whole trilogy” to her means all three extended cuts.
Well, then your wife knows exactly what she’s talking about. The whole trilogy does mean all three extended versions of the films 🙂
I couldn’t even finish watching the trailer. This was my least favourite part of the book. It was basically LOTR- the early years and there was v. little Bilbo. Dislike! And the movie will make it worse ‘cuz they barely focus on Bilbo anyways. I’ll still watch it though :/ Hopefully I don’t fall asleep in this one.
Then again, PJ seems to be playing so fast and loose with the material that Bilbo could be in every scene!
Welcome to my world dude. This is how I almost always feel about these great directors getting stuck in these ten-twenty year ruts with mega franchises. This trailer looks just like the other five movies. I’ll see it too, but it will mostly be to complain about the 48fps or to take a nap.
I’m down with a great director being hitched to a long franchise…but bloody well do something with the franchise! Don’t keep pissing on my shoes and telling me that it’s raining.
Maybe I’ll see this in 48fps just to finally see that (I didn’t take the bait with the first two chapters)