Thread: The hobbit

Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti

I'm telling you guys, there's going to be a LOT of unnecessary action sequences in this trilogy. Again, think King Kong. An hour added to the original films run time and all we got for it was the same characters running away from the same monsters over and over and over again.

Another thing I don't get, haven't they already filmed these movies? Are they just going to turn the deleted scenes into it's own movie?

I'm guessing they shot enough to make 7-8 hours of good movie and he doesn't want to cut it down to 5-6 hours.

Have you read these books, Adgy?

Maybe silly question to ask, but I don't know.

Originally Posted by adgy-san

I'm guessing they shot enough to make 7-8 hours of good movie and he doesn't want to cut it down to 5-6 hours.

While they did wind up with a LOT of excess footage, the reason the decision to go 2 or 3 had a timeline on it is so that they can schedule more shooting. While I don't think it will be as substantial as filming a whole 'nuther movie it won't be a simple reshoot schedule either.

So leftovers? Lol!

No, that Jackson loves to shoot a lot, I mean he shot almost 4 hours of King Kong footage and I saw it on the extended cut. Talk about no mercy, lol.

It just seems excessive...the book is a single book. LOTR made sense as 3 movies, and that was freakishly long. And we all have to wait 3 years for this whole saga to play out. And 6 years before they put out the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate triple dip version of the dvd's. Its just silly at this point.

Getting scared seeing it into 3 movies. 2 is a stretch. Have a bad feeling it is not going to even come close to the quality of the Lord of The Rings movies. Hopefully, I'm wrong.

If these 3 films get made and end up feeling watered down, I am blaming Mitch.

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