Why are there going to be three "Hobbit" movies?

[NewtonMP2100]

....it take THREE to make a thing go right....???

[Tofer]

We'll see how it ends up, but it seems too long to me. I just watched the final LOTR movie last week (extended), and at 4+ hours long, it was way too much for me. I even broke it into two days, and I still thought it dragged on too much.

[Chakravartin]

Acer wrote:
The extra material (I understand) is mainly derived (with a "few" blanks filled in) from the appendices of the LOTR. Jackson does not have rights to use anything from Silmarillion or the copious notes and drafts published otherwise.

That's a shame. I'd like to see a Silmarillion movie done in the style of Jackson's LOTR.

It's one of those rare books that would probably be better as a movie... or trilogy.

[Will Collier]

cbelt3 wrote:
Because it takes 3 movies for that much AWESOME !!!

Most of the Tolkein faithful were annoyed at the missing story elements in the LOTR films. I wanted to see Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Tom Bombadil and his wife !

I was much more annoyed by the ADDED story elements from Jackson and his script girls that weren't found anywhere in the books. I'm expecting more of the crappy same from this bloated effort.

[Manlove]

The feelings swing from extreme to extreme.

I too would like to see the Silmarillion given the same treatment.

And Tofer, we watched each two hour segment of the three films on consecutive nights with our daughter.

On the 7th night we rested!

[NewtonMP2100]

....hate to break it to everyone but any time you use a "source" for a movie.....it will probably be difficult to be completely faithful to it......especially books --> movies.....it is difficult to put all the material in a book.....into a movie......

[decay]

too long, too spread out.

release the 2 or 3 movies a month or two apart. waiting a year between them is torture.

[Zoidberg]

To each his own; as stated, I would have loved each of the LOTR books to be two or three part films. I also would not have said now had a couple of the Harry Potter films been two-parters.

No man is an island, guys.

[blooz]

Three movies make more money than one movie.

[$tevie]

blooz wrote:
Three movies make more money than one movie.

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