Geektastic movies for 2013

[Grieve]

He's adding a lot of the tedious mythology and backstory that Tolkein wrote to fill it up.

Ha, those are the bits I'm most looking forward to.

I loved The Hobbit as a kid, but to me that's what it is...a kids story. Very light-hearted tone (although darker towards the end), and not really fitting in with Lord of the Rings (e.g. tra-la-la\drunk elves). Jackson is pulling a lot of stuff from appendixes, including The Battle of Dol Guldur, where The White Council drive Sauron out of Mirkwood, and all the stuff Gandalf does while he's not with Bilbo and the dwarves (which is most of the book).

I thought "comic relief Gimli" was one of the worst parts of the LOTR films, so less time with 13 (!) dwarves and more with Gandalf and huge battles with giant spiders and wolf-riding orcs sounds good to me.

Not so sure about the other changes, like Evangeline Lily (of Lost) as "an elf maiden" and so on. But I guess we'll see soon enough. Early reviews should be out pretty soon...

Oh, you can listen to some of the Howard Shore soundtrack, which sounds suitably epic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxR9sfHMVI
http://thefilmfatale.me/tagged/Soundtrack-of-the-Day (scroll down)