A Long-Expected Hobbit Movie Thread

[RickZarber]

I think it's less premeditated and more that Jackson just indulges in excess and has difficulty cutting it away.

That said, I still think that the main problem with this movie is that it doesn't feel like enough of a story; the actual length is not the problem so much as the fact that--as Lumen said--it spends so much of that runtime setting up plot points that don't even bear on this section of the story. On reflection, I honestly didn't find any of the action sequences to be overlong or detrimental. Or even all that repetitive, really. I was very impressed, for example, just how short the rock giant sequence was. I was expecting PJ to make that into a whole long thing, and then in the end I don't think it was even more than a few minutes.

I also think that time will be kinder to this movie, and it will feel more natural once we have the entire story available to us. (Though people may still cling to their initial dislike, so who knows how that will affect how it's remembered.) But in a few years from now, when we sit down for our... 12 hour marathon of the Hobbit it will feel more like a proper opening act and less like an incomplete film.