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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   > (Having 3D tech does NOT mean having to swoop-pan over bridges,   
   > chasms  etc. just because one can.   
      
   I get the impression that Jackson wouldn't agree with you on that   
   -)   
      
   > PLOT - Let us all remember that JRRT wrote The Hobbit FIRST, and   
   > LotR was  the sequel, filling in a lot of the back-story.   
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   > Jackson went at it the other way round, making the sequel first,   
      
      
      
   > Not that I didn't like the film!   
      
   Liking the film as a film and discussing its worth as an adaptation   
   are, ideally, two wholly distinct issues (though admittedly they can   
   mix up when we get to the appreciation of the film as a whole).   
      
   Strangely the fact that Jackson's first /Hobbit/ film is so much   
   further removed from Tolkien's story than were his /LotR/ films   
   allows me to be more detached from the adaptation aspect, enabling me   
   to enjoy the film experience with less distraction (I suppose it also   
   helps that I think that /The Hobbit/ is a weaker, or less good, book   
   than is /The Lord of the Rings/).   
      
   The humour and the narrative style of Jackson's /Hobbit/ is far more   
   mature than in Tolkien's story; this is probably much more obvious   
   because of the way the story has been cut up -- the film stops at a   
   point before the book's narration starts to mature significantly   
   (with the exception of the second edition version of 'Riddles in the   
   Dark', which, IMO, in many ways seems a bit out of place in the story   
   at this point), and so this film covers some of the most childish and   
   flippant/whimsical chapters in the Tolkien canon (always excepting   
   /Mr. Bliss/).   
      
   In some ways this could easily be considered an improvement on   
   Tolkien's narrative-- or I might have thought so if it had been done   
   by a good story-teller (by which I have said that I consider Peter   
   Jackson to be a rather poor story-teller -- he relies, in my opinion,   
   too much on flashy images and technology) -- in the present   
   incarnation I merely think it is different, but neither better or   
   worse.   
      
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