re: thoughts on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy

They tried to do too much with too little. But still a fan.

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I finally got around to watching Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy (extended version) last week,

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Just getting the TV in Miss. huh? nice

While no doubt the movies were stretched out too far (and some scenes completely pointless), all these people downing the increase in comedy and physics defying action need to consider the audience the book was originally written for: children.

I myself read the book in sixth grade, and while it's not extremely true to the written word I can promise you that sixth grade me would have loved those movies.

In the same vein, LotR was written for a more mature audience, and thus the movies match that expectation. And by even further extension the Silmarrilion was an even more difficult work, bordering on a history book reading rather than a story.

People need to get off of their high horses about movies sometimes. It was an enjoyable trilogy, even with its imperfections.

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I thought it was fun, despite its flaws. I'd watch almost anything set in Middle Earth.

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Agree. I can't wait until Christopher Tolkien dies so we can get a Middle Earth extended universe.

I didn't see any of 'em until the extended editions all came out on BluRay. By that time, my expectations were totally in check, so I enjoyed 'em well enough.

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The Pale Orc subplot is vastly trimmed down. Azog is obviously still leading the attack on the Lonely Mountain at the end, but he does not appear in the film until after the company escapes the goblin tunnels (suggesting that the slaying of the Great Goblin is a factor in their vendetta, as it was in the novel).

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AZOG was dead in the book. They could have done it correctly with his son Bolg leading the goblin army for revenge as it was in the book.

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AZOG was dead in the book. They could have done it correctly with his son Bolg leading the goblin army for revenge as it was in the book.

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Sure, but I don't remember if Bolg was in the movie. this guy did a great job editing just for the heck of it.

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He was ETA: unless you're talking about the Tolkien edit.

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Ok. I don't know if he considered making that change or not, or if it would have been possible with the given footage. Good idea though.

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I didn't see any of 'em until the extended editions all came out on BluRay. By that time, my expectations were totally in check, so I enjoyed 'em well enough.

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Same.