(September 20, 2012 at 1:21 pm)Red Celt Wrote:(September 20, 2012 at 1:11 pm)frankiej Wrote: Ah, I didn't think it was confirmed, but oh well. Shall still be epic!
Yes, I had a bit of a rant when I first heard that it was going to be 3 movies. But it's a Pro v Con win, really. To summarise: The Hobbit is much shorter than The Lord of the Rings and doesn't justify the same movie time. Buuuut, Jackson is including elements from The Silmarilion in order to give the story the same degree of depth as TLOTR... so that it doesn't feel like a children's story when compared to the (more adult) 1st trilogy.
So, yeah.
Plus 3 movies is always better than 1, when it comes to Tolkein.
When it comes to epics, it's better to have moooooore films and more hours to watch, too little misses too much.
How awful would LOTR have been if it was only 1 movies.
