I
saw all the Lord of the Rings movies at midnight the night of their release. I
read the books for the first time when I was 12. I can safely say I am a fan.
Stephen Colbert has actually devoted the whole week of The Colbert Report to
the movie, and I have enjoyed it immensely. That being said, I am not sure
about The Hobbit being split into three movies. The Lord of the Rings needed
three (fairly long) movies because it was three books (or 6, if you go by
volumes, which is how Tolkien apparently envisioned them being published). The
Hobbit is only one. I understand there are lots of reasons to break it up, not
the least of which is the amount of money each film is likely to make. When
they first said it was going to broken into two, I was excited. Twice the fun,
and they could go deeper into the story than they did for The Lord of the
Rings. But three seems a bit excessive.
I am still exited, and looking forward to seeing all of them. But I hope the
story does not suffer too much from the breakup. Because I would rather see one
(or two) very good movies than three mediocre ones with illogical and arbitrary
stopping points.
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/mon-december-3-2012-ian-mckellen
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