Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Jackson's The Desolation of Smaug expands Tolkien's The Hobbit for Film

 
     The director of The Hobbit film trilogy expands the film version of Middle-Earth for it's second outing. While some have called turning the children's novel into a three part film a stretch, Jackson manages to flush out the Tolkien's world and characters. In the second part of the film trilogy Jackson continues to do without the slow pace some critics complained about in An Unexpected Journey.