[Perdogg]

In before the haters......

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I'm looking forward to this film, which is highly unusual. No, the Hobbit films are not really faithful adaptions of the book (heresy warning, I like the films better than the books anyway), but they are entertaining to say the least!

More Middle Earth -- what's not to like?

[Cowboy Bob]

hortly after the climactic battle scene of this final instalment

Is "hortly" an adverb?

[trebb]

But it will be 3 stars in epic proportions. I watch this type movie for the entertainment value and have enjoyed the whole series of them. Sometimes one needs time to recreate without all the subliminal message and dissection of plots, etc.

[Theophilus]

Jackson, you have thus far failed to reach my depth of disapointment with George Lucas. But keep on digging.

[kidd]

I saw the third installment of the Hobbit movie.

It has little to do with the book. Unlike the Fellowship of the Ring, which was true to the book and was visually stunning, the third Hobbit movie is an exercise in computer generated graphics.

The battle scenes are silly (14 dwarves somehow turn a losing battle against an enemy of tens of thousands into a win). Giant Dune-like sandworms are introduced, stick their heads out as some sort of terror item that will play a factor in the battle...but are never seen again (bizarre).

In the book, Bilbo returns to the Shire a rich hobbit, needing a pony to carry his share of the treasure back home. In the movie, Bilbo has it tucked under his arm and carries it with ease.

The movie trips over itself trying to make a tie-in to the LOTR trilogy (at the end of the movie: “up North you will find a strong leader. He has a young son named Aragorn who goes by the name of “Strider”. Perhaps he will be a strong leader too”).

Save your money until this one comes out on TV.