I watched the first installment of The Hobbit a couple of years ago and found it really long, slow and bloated. That’s pretty much the only thing about it I recall, and I’ve made no effort to see the other two. I understand from overhearing various conversations that things don’t improve from the point where I dropped the project.
Did somebody hit Peter Jackson on the head or something? Because it seems clear even to hermits in the desert, many miles from the nearest movie theater, that the world is not crying out for an extended version.
Definitely with you on The Hobbit. Saw the first. Remember nothing but how long and boring it was. Not even attempting the other two.
And an extended version?????
FWIW, I think somebody hit Jackson over the head quite a few years ago. Did you ever — gods forbid! — see his version of King Kong? It took the poor actors 45 minutes of runtime just to get to Skull Island, for heaven’s sake. And the big ape died more slowly than the Roman Empire.
Jackson’s early movies were brilliant, and the extended ed. of LOTR was a much-needed wonder. But The Hobbit? Maybe somebody should hit Jackson over the head again in hopes of curing him of his blind ego.
Peter Jackson suffers from his success – no one in a position to do so is willing to tell him when he’s wrong. They’ve forgotten that his greatest successes came when there were people willing to rein him in if he got too enthusiastic.
http://kotaku.com/now-theres-a-three-hour-cut-of-the-hobbit-trilogy-1681224543