I'm fairly committed to not seeing TH:AUJ, at the theatre at least. But who knows, I might cave to curiosity.

Something troubling about fan reaction to the bits and pieces of reviews so far is many seem to have decided that any "negative" critique or comments about any aspect of the film are either outright lies, or are driven by some sort of agenda. In a way the phenomenon sort of reminds me of those who threw their lot in with Harold Camping going so far as denying what they believed to be true of the scriptures (ie no one knows the day or the hour...)

I want to ask a question of some fans, but I don't know if it's really fair or fruitful for me to do so: If you see the Hobbit, especially in PJ's preferred format, and don't like it, would you tell anyone?

I want to ask a question of some fans, but I don't know if it's really fair or fruitful for me to do so: If you see the Hobbit, especially in PJ's preferred format, and don't like it, would you tell anyone?

I think you should be able to divine my response to this from my puzzled response to Lali's post above, when I had not realized that she was responding to something that you had written. But I'll be more explicit.

There is not a single person who posts at this site that I expect will post anything other than a completely honest opinion. I can't imagine why anyone would even want to do anything different than that. Beyond that, I can't really say anything else without violating the self-imposed prohibition that we have here against I and the other Marshals discussing other messageboards. But I'll stretch that a little to say that I wish, Sir Dennis, that you had had the opportunity to experience the only Movies (m00bies) forum at TORC. Had you done so, I don't think you would be asking a question like that.

Edited to add: I also am not sure what the question has to do with the subject of this thread.

Something troubling about fan reaction to the bits and pieces of reviews so far is many seem to have decided that any "negative" critique or comments about any aspect of the film are either outright lies, or are driven by some sort of agenda.

I want to ask a question of some fans, but I don't know if it's really fair or fruitful for me to do so: If you see the Hobbit, especially in PJ's preferred format, and don't like it, would you tell anyone?

I'd argue about that "allegedly," SA, but as an admin, I can't.

And that's as close to the line as I'll step, Voronwë.

Yes, sorry for the digression in the other thread... I mentioned that it might not be fair or fruitful to ask such a question! I'm sure everyone here will post exactly what they think about the films as they do on every other topic under discussion.

My use of the word "allegedly" is not entirely serious.

[Note: I split this off from the thread about critical reaction to The Hobbit - VtF]

I'm fairly committed to not seeing TH:AUJ, at the theatre at least. But who knows, I might cave to curiosity.

Something troubling about fan reaction to the bits and pieces of reviews so far is many seem to have decided that any "negative" critique or comments about any aspect of the film are either outright lies, or are driven by some sort of agenda. In a way the phenomenon sort of reminds me of those who threw their lot in with Harold Camping going so far as denying what they believed to be true of the scriptures (ie no one knows the day or the hour...)

I want to ask a question of some fans, but I don't know if it's really fair or fruitful for me to do so: If you see the Hobbit, especially in PJ's preferred format, and don't like it, would you tell anyone?

I missed this. You plan not to see it? Even if Michael Bay was directing, I simply couldn't help myself. I need to see how the Hobbit is treated, whether I expect it to be good, bad or ugly.

If Michael Bay was directing, I wouldn't go and see it. And despite what the PJ-detractors may say, he is a whole lot better than Michael Bay!

Although, having said that, I am less emotional about The Hobbit than I am about LotR ... so while I might grit my teeth to watch a Hobbit directed by Michael Bay, there is no way I could cope with a LotR directed by Michael Bay.

I disliked the Bakshi cartoon of LotR and switched it off after 30 minutes because I couldn't take any more of it. I found the portrayal of the Hobbits embarrassing!