[Perdogg]

If you are not interested, please stay away. Thank you. I have received both soundtracks; the Original version and the Mp3 version of the extended Soundtrack. If the movie is half as good as the soundtrack, I will be happy.

[Perdogg]

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[OddLane]

I don't understand the backlash Peter Jackson's experienced.

There are valid critiques, of course, but if you consider The Hobbit and The LOTR films as a whole, he's directed what is beyond question-in my opinion, at least-the best film franchise to date.

And certainly the best adaptation of a fantasy novel I've ever seen.

[mylife]

Martin Freeman is such an excellent actor.

[BradyLS]

Jackson has made some truly great and epic fantasy films. I just don’t know why they’re called The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

[Nuc 1.1]

I think both series are great.

[Species8472]

From a letter by JRR Tolken to Milton Waldman in 1951 -

“Do not laugh! But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story – the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths – which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. It should possess the tone and quality that I desired, somewhat cool and clear, be redolent of our ‘air’ (the clime and soil of the North West, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe: not Italy or the Aegean, still less the East), and, while possessing (if I could achieve it) the fair elusive beauty that some call Celtic (though it is rarely found in genuine ancient Celtic things), it should be ‘high’, purged of the gross, and fit for the more adult mind of a land long now steeped in poetry.

I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.<\b>

The professor would have loved these movies!

[Sawdring]

Peter Jackson should just step back, shut up and start making the Silmarillion. Three more movies please!

[SkyPilot]

Viggo Mortensen said in a recent interview that Peter Jackson is a genius, but the last 3 Hobbit films have gone overboard with CGI, because Jackson is "addicted" to it.

Having seen the last 2 Hobbit films and the trailer for the third, I must admit Mortensen is correct.

‘Lord of the Rings’ Star Critiques ‘The Hobbit’ Films’ Reliance on CGI

Also, Peter was always a geek in terms of technology but, once he had the means to do it, and the evolution of the technology really took off, he never looked back. In the first movie, yes, there’s Rivendell, and Mordor, but there’s sort of an organic quality to it, actors acting with each other, and real landscapes; it’s grittier. The second movie already started ballooning, for my taste, and then by the third one, there were a lot of special effects. It was grandiose, and all that, but whatever was subtle, in the first movie, gradually got lost in the second and third. Now with The Hobbit, one and two, it’s like that to the power of 10.

The LOTR movies used a lot of CGI, that is true. But they interspersed that with brilliant acting and sets as well. When I watch the Hobbit movies, I feel like my visual senses are being assaulted by computer graphics....period.