Worf
I'll Lock Up
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I disagree with you on the Hobbit, Worf. I just saw it sunday and i really enjoyed it, the length of it allowed for us to really be emersed in the world of Middle earth. I was puzzled that he'd find a way to pull three movies out of this, but i'm glad he's giving alot of backstory, since to the folks who don't know tolkien, alot of what is written about in the books may just seem like throw away lines (ie ungoliant, morgoth) but there is so much more depth to them, that fleshing them out really does wonders. I wasn't bored throughout and i was bored at points in the last trilogy(i found liv tyler's scenes extraordinarily slow, and i wasnt too keen on some of the silliness in some of the battle sequences with legolas).. definitely well pleased this time around!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. To each his/her own. In addition to my complaints about the length I was disappointed a couple of times as well when the director resorted to "formula" rather than story telling.. When Mr. Jackson used the SAME Aerial panning shots of our Merry band trudging over the mountains of middle earth that he used multiple times in the Trilogy an audible groan escaped my lips. The Hobbit, I dunno, makes me feel like I'm in the 5th year of High School sometimes. The trilogy was war, life and death and high drama, the Hobbit was never that and I guess I feel that Mr. J is forcing a round peg in a square hole.
Worf