Catching Fire or The Hobbit 2?

[Michelle]

Who rules...Catniss or Frodo? I loved CF, and am really looking forward to seeing The Hobbit this weekend. Anyone else?

[Marianne]

I thought the Catching Fire movie was a very good adaptation of a very good book. I saw it yesterday. Very faithful to the book.

Having seen the first Hobbit movie, and been disappointed, I'm not really anticipating the sequel.

[Julia]

I saw "Catching Fire" and liked it and will see "The Hobbit" when it comes to my local theater. Which Frodo won't have a major role in, it's about Bilbo's adventures...

Movies are $5 at my local theater, so we go a lot and if they aren't so great, that's okay, the next one will be.

[Michelle]

I wish movies by us were $5. That's a deal.

I'm off to see the Hobbit tomorrow, and I can't wait! My kids saw it last night and were very thrilled by it.

[Heather]

In my opinion, "Catching Fire" was amazingly well done, and "The Hobbit" not so much!

[Dev]

Heather wrote: "In my opinion, "Catching Fire" was amazingly well done, and "The Hobbit" not so much!"

Are you comparing the first hobbit or the second?

[thalassic]

I haven't read the book so Catching Fire was just a fun movie to me with nothing to compare it to or any particular expectations.

Desolation of Smaug was actually quite disappointing though. I didn't really mind the changes they made in the first movie but the second just seemed like it had so many missed opportunities with the best scenes from that section of the book skipped over in favor of extended action scenes and orc battles that made very little sense. And while I absolutely don't mind that a female character was added, how she was introduced destroyed a character defining scene for Bilbo. For me at least, finally seeing Smaug on screen, awesome as that was, wasn't nearly enough to compensate for the rest.

[thalassic]

Well, there are think-y movies out there but you're right, they don't usually come from Hollywood. I do like movies that are just visual cotton candy too, but when it's something based on a book I generally don't have very high expectations. I'll probably watch Desolation again at some point and appreciate the good parts while sort of ignoring the parts that annoyed me.

[Eva]

I prefer Catching Fire, but I reconize that the song of The desolation of Smaug, I see fire, is one of my favourite songs ever.