Hobbit part 2: no spoilers

[kenderleech]

The lights came on; and from the greater part of geekdom, did cry "Damn you Peter Jackson" and with much tearfulness, many did swear to see each other one year and four days hence, and thusly foresworn, did head into the frozen waste of the fields of Par-king.

[Black Jack Rackham]

You know, I've read this now 4 times, and I'm still not sure whether you thought it was good or not.

[Rebecca Iavelli]

I think he said they will be there to see part 3, if you read this part :

and with much tearfulness, many did swear to see each other one year and four days hence, and thusly foresworn, did head into the frozen waste of the fields of Par-king.

[Black Jack Rackham]

They're geeks, of course they're going to see it. It could be 17 hours of Peter Jackson picking his nose while singing a cover of Leonard Nimoy's The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins and they'd go see it.

[kenderleech]

Yes, it was amazing. Yes, i was irritated about 2 times with divergences from the book. yes, im going to go see the third one (aduh). No, i wouldnt pay to watch pete jackson pick his nose to the ballad of bilbo, i have it on record, i can sit at home and pick my own nose to it.

[salamanca]

I'm shouting spoilers here. A member of the Fellowship shows up and doesn't get killed. (if you didn't see or hear that he was showing up, your cave is deeper than moria and I, of all people, recommend you connect to society). That somebody steals everybody's thunder. Gandalf proves he still has no actual talent. A dragon shows up. Really great bits get ruined by CGI efforts to 3D stuff into impossibility. And it ends like a season of Game of Thrones... Stuff just stops and we get credits. Got in free, still kinda want some money back. But the dragon looked good.

[Lord_Nabu]

I haven't actually managed to watch the first one yet, haven't been to the cinema in years, and can't be arsed to sit down and watch it (though I do have it on DVD).

Some of my wife's co-workers (High-school teachers) went and watched it, they suggest PJ gt a copy of the book and read it. that's partly why I haven't seen any of them yet.

[salamanca]

Well, Pete didn't exactly. Do all the work here. He farmed out the directing (which is part of my problem). Then let Hollywood drop in new characters and return people that were never in the book (like a certain blond elf) I don't mind adding in the Necromancer bits and expanding some story for the orcs that are chasing them but at the very least, the Dwarves should be the heroes of the story and overcome their opposition on their own. And this easily could have been done in two films.

[Black Jack Rackham]

For myself it's a storytelling issue. I want a movie to tell a story. One story. That means, a beginning, a middle, and an end. I made an exception for LoTR since they were three books, but still it's even just one story. In general though, I dislike paying more than once to see different parts of the same story (Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean, Empire Strikes Back, I'm looking at all of you here). It's ok to leave dangling plot threads, but there has to be some sense of finality. And the Hobbit isn't even trying. They're just basically saying pay us three times the cost of a ticket so you can see a story that's been fluffed up a bit.