Hopefully he’s spending those 18 hour days being far truer to the source material than he was when making LOTR.
I don’t know. I love how the LOTR turned out. I hope he does at least as good a job with the Hobbit.
I thought Jackson did pretty well, but there was some gratuitous silliness in some parts. One example:
"Lean forward!"
That was just one of the dumbest gratuitous special effects sequences in all of movie history. Why they needed "lean forward" in the middle of the Mines of Moria is beyond me. As if there wasn't enough drama in that chapter already. It was just asinine, and goes to show that sometimes the special effects budget is just too big.
There was a similarly gratuitous scene in "King King" where they engage in a seemingly endless brontosaurus/cgi stampede...
Other than one lame "dwarf-tossing" joke, and the regrettable elision of Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire, I think it came out reasonably faithful to the original. Certainly the cinematography and set design lived up to the elaborate pictures of Middle Earth my mind's eye had previously constructed from five or six readings of the series.
What didn't you like about it?