Originally Posted by bronco67

I'll agree that the Hobbit really could be one 3 hour movie, but I kind of like what Jackson's doing with the story embellishments -- and I'm a fan of the book since I was a little kid. A movie is a movie and a book is a book. What it comes down to mostly is that I'll watch 9 hours of whatever Peter Jackson does because I love his work. A mediocre Peter Jackson movie is better than most movies.