Eh...meh. I skipped The Hobbit because it looked like they were trying to make it too much like LOTR. The clips I’ve seen of the new one look like more of the same.
Yeah, I get that The Hobbit is the precursor to LOTR. But The Hobbit novel also had a different feel and flow to it. It wasn’t the epic struggle of good and evil so much as the wonders of the world revealed to someone whose world had been quite small before. The was the charm of the book for me.
Just MHO, of course. Millions of movie goers obviously disagree with me.
I agree.
The Hobbit is a upbeat little tale — and IIRC the ring was a kind fun thing. Not evil at all.
I love all of the books, and I read them every few years just for the experience.
The movies depart from the books in many ways. Plot elements that were crucial in the books were dropped in the movies. (For example, the fact that Bilbo had cursed Gollum that if he ever touched the ring again, he would die, and it was that curse that actually enabled the destruction of the ring was completely omitted from the movies.) Despite the differences, despite the fact that a lot of LOTR material was placed into the Hobbit movie--I still enjoy the movies. They will never have the impact that the books have on me.
Yea, that was the same for me......
Just curious, is Tom Bombadil in the Hobbit movie?
It goes beyond the LOTR in violence, gore, and pop culture references.