Being a Tolkien nerd, I am looking forward to this film regardless of critics.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hob ... d_journey/

Hell yeah! Can't wait!

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So can't wait for this! It looks like they're continuing the exact same magic from the LOTR trilogy for this one. Gonna be a great one.

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It's gonna be a lot tonally different from the LOTR. Way lighter story, way smaller stakes.

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Same style and feel to the movie though - that was what I was referring to. And I don't mind smaller stakes. Makes it more believable, I think.

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LOTR was epic, and this will be fun first epic second.

I am boycotting The Hobbit. Three movies for a book that takes about 4 hours to read!?!

Early reviews for the first installment - a three hour movie that barely gets 100 pages into the book - confirm my fears
that what should be a quick, cool romp through Middle Earth is a drawn out snoozefest, that may or may not cause motion
sickness.

That has me seriously worried, but so far the trailers have looked so much like the LOTR trilogy that it just might work. The thought of six epic movies on this story instead of just four overrides my worries. For now. Jackson has shown to be masterful in the telling of this story. I think he has a good chance to continue the magic, even if I'm worried about the scope of the story becoming too much.

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I heard Russell Wilson will be at the world premiere.

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The second movie, from what I understand, basically finishes the Hobbit's story (i.e the Smaug orderal), while the 3rd movie is based on the appendices from Return of the King and connects the Hobbit to Fellowship. I have faith in Jackson on this.

Yeah, a lot of this second trilogy follows parts of the story that were only referred to in the Hobbit or its peripheral works.

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They are tieing a lot of the background that was going on from the Simirrillion (spelling) into the Hobbit story. In fact Tolkien in his narrative in putting that together ahd stated that it was written to set things in order so that readers could understand the bigger picture going into the the Lord of the Rings. Jackson is just incorperating them into the Hobbit storyline for depth and reference to what we as viewers already know from seeing the LOTR and how it led up to it.

The Hobbit therefore will not follow the page by page events that happened in the book due to this which may upset some people. It is a precursor to LOTR not the stand alone book we read I think.

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Gonna go see it tonight. I'll let you guys know what I thought of it tomorrow.

"One by one the free lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the ring... but there were some... who resisted." Damn I'm nerdy.

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References to the Silmarillion...awesome!! I want to see Feanor and more about the First Age! Some battles with Melkor! I am supremely nerdy

I doubt we see much of this. I WOULD however like them to make a Children of Hurin-era movie. Maybe starting off with the Dagor Bragolach all the way up to Earendil's voyage. I guess they could do another three-parter. Get Luthien and Beren in there, the Narn I chin hurin and I guess start off with Feanor and the Kinslaying and such. Could be amazing, but I think only the hardcore Tolkien nerds would go see it.

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Tolkien fan here too. I saw it yesterday in Normal Mode since many of the reviews are panning the 48k 3d. I wanted to just see how the story was presented. I liked it. I'll see it again in 48k soon.

I am a big enough Nerd to know Azog's true story etc, but I can accept the changes to the story and enjoy them as they are.

One thing as a Tolkien fan that I loved seeing in the movie: Storm Giants

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I saw it and really enjoyed it, but one thing bothered me the entire movie. All the dwarves had some work done in make-up, some almost excessively, but one, Kili I think, had none done and he looked just like a normal dude. I have only read the book once, but was there a reason for this?

I liked it, but it does piss me off they are milking that cash cow for three movies. Even two is pushing iut, but having tseen this one last night, I think I'd be OK with two, but three is really just cinematic robbery. Luckily my mom is a hug fan so she takes me. I won't give them one dime of my money (perhaps for one film, but not three, no way). LOTR, yeah, but this really stinks of profiteering IMO.

That said though, it is a thoroughly entertaining film and I love the way you get more of an idea about the dwarves, something pretty much non existent in LOTR, save for the mines of Moria.

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This movie was awesome! Halfway through it I couldn't help but think I wasn't doing enough to help them kill orcs. Then I remembered that none of that is real life. Movies like this bum me out, because now I'm jacked up for the next one...but, that won't be for years.

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