![]() Yes, the movie is a bladder-testing two hours and 46 minutes (without previews and, if you're really lucky, a nine-minute prologue to next summer's Star Trek: Into Darkness also). Yes, we had to wait nearly ten years to return to Middle Earth and have to watch the beginning when we already know the end. ![]() With this first new chapter, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, patience is exactly the virtue required. Unlike George Lucas and his endless tinkering of his great Star Wars trilogy, Jackson gets it right the first time. While some are calling this new movie trilogy covering just one book instead of three deliberate box office milking, I take it as a guy with a passion who just wants to get everything he can right the first time. He patiently crafts his art, hones the final product, and seeks to tell his stories his way. The Oscar-winning director of The Lord of the Rings series is one of very few filmmakers who have afforded the luxury to make movies on their own time. It is in that virtue of patience, that my appreciation springs forth for Peter Jackson's new The Hobbit trilogy. ![]() People demand scoops and leak spoilers daily in this modern world of social media where "15 minutes of fame" has become 15 seconds and instant gratification is the entertainment vice and addiction. Trailers give away entire movies and secrets get exposed before a movie even gets out. Few movies anymore are really slow-played with the right patience for the proper anticipation and surprise. When movies used to play for months at the box office to savor and appreciate, they now flame out in weeks in favor of the new shiny object and a dose of "been there, done that." Surrounding both the studios and the masses is the impatience of marketing hype and expectations. ![]() Movie audiences in this day and age are no better, thanks to that rushed system. Their greed rushes movies, their sequels, and, later, their remakes and reboots into production and into the theaters. They never want the gravy train of hit after hit to stop. ![]() For production studios and the powers that be, they impatiently demand and want "the next big thing" yesterday, not tomorrow. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY- 4 STARSĪ virtue that is underused and under-appreciated in the film industry nowadays is patience. ![]()
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