The Hobbit

[Pythia]

It strays from the book, but some of the extra material comes from the LOTR trilogy (parts that were left out of the movies).  Some extra material is just flat made up (Galadriel, Gandalf, Sauraman, and Elrod in the same room- really??)! 

Actually, Galadriel, Elrond, Gandalf and Saruman were members of the White Council, which did meet in the Hobbit book to discuss the Necromancer (Sauron).
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/White_Council

Yep. BUT it really bugged me that in the movie they made The Necromancer this new thing - when in the book, he'd been around for ages and ages and was just growing in power.

[Kiwi]

We really enjoyed the movie. I've never read LOTR (tried, got 3 pages in, couldn't get any further), and my mom read me the Hobbit when I was little, so I don't remember much to be able to compare to the movies.

The IMAX didn't really seem like anything special, but we really enjoyed the Star Trek preview

The movie I really enjoyed - love the music (and Thorin's song!), the scenery, and I like that it's the same cast from LOTR for the shared characters. And I may be the odd ball out, but I loved Radagast, and the rabbits. That just made my day!

[kiwimlp]

Lol, I never thought about you and your rabbits when I saw Radagast, Kiwi  

As good as the movie was, I tend to agree The Hobbit could have easily been made into 2 movies rather than 3.  Then again, I love LOTR so much that's it's great to have new action figures to collect

[Ayalah]

I agree Kiwi! It's also nice to just see some of "the old gang" again. I know for me when LOTR ended, and all the commentary and special features were watched  I felt a lot like I was loosing friends lol Same feeling as when you end a really good book. Just that "awww I'm gonna miss you guys!" thing.

[Midnight_Dream]

It strays from the book, but some of the extra material comes from the LOTR trilogy (parts that were left out of the movies).  Some extra material is just flat made up (Galadriel, Gandalf, Sauraman, and Elrod in the same room- really??)! 

Actually, Galadriel, Elrond, Gandalf and Saruman were members of the White Council, which did meet in the Hobbit book to discuss the Necromancer (Sauron).
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/White_Council

Yep. BUT it really bugged me that in the movie they made The Necromancer this new thing - when in the book, he'd been around for ages and ages and was just growing in power.

I think you are just being WAY too nitpicky there. It is sort of implied in the movie that The Necromancer had been around for quite some time and that he was growing more powerful day by day.

[Destiny]

I've already seen the Hobbit a couple of times and I'm seeing it again this saturday. Needless to say I love it I guess ^^
I might add that I'm a fan of Peter Jackson and a huge huge fan of Tolkien, so it would take a lot to disappoint me. I've read some of the comments in this thread and though I can totally see the things some of you are bothered with, I don't see them as that bad. I thought PJ handled the changes well, the movie was long yes, but I was still bothered when it ended, some of the dwarves might look too silly and are underdeveloped, but I still LOVE every single dwarf. I don't mind the three movies bit either. My only concern is that Peter might have lost focus on the dwarves in his attempt to fill in background stuff for other less important characters (completely madeup female elf who was only created to add some female power to the movie anyone), but he still has two movies to change that.
So yeah.. there wasn't really anything that bothered me enough to bring me down from my middle earth cloud.

Unfortunately, I watched this before the movie, so I couldn't help but giggle everytime there was a shot of them walking/hiking/strolling I would've been hypnotized by the landscape if I hadn't watched that honest trailer.



Actually one thing DID bother me. Thorin's song was way too short!