Board Thread:Films/@comment-24608678-20140411174340/@comment-24649018-20140412165731

After watching the trailer above,  I see nothing worth watching. But I can see how teens and pre-teens will love it. They will no doubt relate to the plight of the main female character etc. Another cash-in on the young adult fiction trend just bores me to death.

But getting to your point, I also dislike this desire to split a novel into two or more movies. It's a shitty cash-in and the story can often suffer because it gets spread too thinly and ends up dragging.

And for the record, my copy of The Hobbit is 365 pages. I don't know if the page count has varied between editions because of font size or whatever but it's certainly not a book that can justifiably be spread across three films. I watched the first Hobbit movie and was dissapointed and have no desire to see parts 2 and 3 until they show them on TV.

Doing a trilogy for Lord of the Rings made perfect sense because that is a huge book. My copy has 1077 pages.