Well, I have a lot of affection for Peter Jackson (as do a lot of others) for doing so beautifully those same LoTR movies you hated...
So you really do look like a fly in the butt balm. :~D
I can't believe how many people on this thread sound like Liberals, wishing misfortune on guys like Peter Jackson when he goes and makes a totally clean movie with no profanity, no sex scenes or nudity, no gratuitous gore, no Liberal political agenda -- in other words, a guy who makes a movie WITHOUT all the things that we conservatives complain about. You'd think that folks would be praising him for breaking the Liberal Hollywood mold. Yet there are a ton of FReepers who STILL knock the guy, which makes me think of Liberals who are just envious of others' success.
I saw the movie, loved it, and plan to go see it again. Peter Jackson deserves success because he is doing the very thing that so many of us wish moviemakers would do: produce a clean flick with no political agenda.