It was actually clear that it had to happen that way, but The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey still wasn’t particularly well received by many fans. It didn’t hurt its success: Peter Jackson’s second Lord of the Rings trilogy grossed a total of almost $3 billion at the box office. You can watch the launch on Amazon.
Today on TV: That’s what The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is about
The little hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is supposed to help a group of dwarves recover a treasure. However, this one will Treasure guarded by a real dragon and is also on the other side of the world – at least from the hobbit’s perspective. But Bilbo sets off anyway at the request of his friend Gandalf.
The Little Hobbit is actually a children’s book that… Prehistory of the Lord of the Rings books told. After the resounding success of the Peter Jackson film adaptations, it was only a matter of time before this JRR Tolkien book was also made into a film.
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Martin Freeman in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit films were extremely successful, but also very controversial
were at the box office These Peter Jackson films were also a complete success. The first part alone has grossed over a billion US dollars worldwide. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies each brought in just under a billion dollars at the box office, as the box office site The Numbers shows.
But many fans were not satisfied with the film adaptation. This is, for example, because the content of what was actually a very short book was spread out, stretched and neatly embellished across three films. The result is a pretty bloated trilogy.
In addition, the atmosphere and dialogues were not only well received: There were several criticisms that the tone of the original was not correct. Also the decisions to shoot the Hobbit films at a higher frame rate than usual and on lots of CGI effects were not exactly popular, which is underlined by a look at the reviews (via Rotten Tomatoes).
TV or stream: When and where is The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey shown?
VOX showed the first part of The Hobbit trilogy in prime time. He came on January 11, 2023 at 8:15 p.m. A repeat will air on January 12th at 10:15 p.m.
If you don’t have time, you can of course also watch The Hobbit online. It is part of the streaming subscription for MagentaTV and Amazon Prime Video. Otherwise, it is also available to rent or buy, for example from Sky, Google Play, Apple TV or Maxdome.
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