Over the holidays, some of the SportsAlcohol.com crew got together and took in the (probably? hopefully?) final Peter Jackson film based on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. We discussed frame rate, plot, pacing, and the many wonderful animals used for transportation.
SPOILER ALERT: In this podcast we discuss a movie based on a popular book that’s over seventy years old with millions of copies in print. If you don’t know what happens, it’s your own fault.
NOISE ALERT: The were some weird clicks in the recording I couldn’t get rid of. Also, our cats were hungry, so you might here their bells or their whining in the background.
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I don’t know how to choose between my disappointment that this happened without me and my suspicion that it’s probably just as well for everybody that it did.
The Lucas/Jackson comparison feels particularly apt here because of the similarities between the reception of the Star Wars prequels and these LotR prequels (and I think there are even some similarities in the films’ own strengths and weaknesses).
I think as long as you wouldn’t have derailed my conversation about all the animals that are ridden, you could have only enhanced things.
Lucas and Jackson also seem to engender a lot of hope and disappointment in fans who, for whatever reason, expected them at various times to save movies or whatever. And then they turned out to be human movie directors who basically have a lot of the same strengths and weaknesses they started out with, maybe with certain features (Lucas’s lack of interest in actors; Jackson’s … muchness) exaggerated with age (which happens a lot, as we just saw with Michael Mann).
I wonder what the Hobbit movies’ reps will look like in a few years, because in the moment they got worse reviews than the Star Wars prequels did during their release, but the latter became such an “everyone hated” event that by the time the Hobbits came out, their mixed reviews looked a lot better than the “consensus” (or internet version of same) on the prequels — and I’m not sure if that same drop will happen with the Hobbit trilogy, or if maybe future viewers will see them as more of a piece with the LOTR trilogy because there are fewer aesthetic differences, or because maybe they seem less callbacky if you watch them first.