The Hobbit Film Analysis
Flashback to the summer of 1977, the United States had just celebrated its bi-centennial, Jimmy Carter was in the White house, and the king of rock and roll was in his last days. A bright eyed and bushy tailed young filmmaker named George Lucas was about to launch his newly created project on the world, “Star Wars”. Lucas, not a pedigreed filmmaker by no means, is given the greenlight by 20th century Fox and the budget of 11 million dollars to film his creation. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend of that year, and we all know the rest is history.
Now, flash forward to modern day. The United States is overseas battling foreign powers, the nation’s first African American is in the Whitehouse, and Justin Bieber is dominating our air …show more content…
For example, the Hobbit films that were released in the last few years. In 2012, when the first Hobbit was released, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the hype was real. It might have been 9 years later, but with Peter Jackson returning to Middle Earth Fans were hoping for the best. Unfortunately, fan’s dreams were smashed to bits when on December 13, 2012 the film hit theaters, and it was nowhere near what audiences expected. The critics jumped on the film for being long and over draught (which fans threw a blind eye to) and fans rose their expectations. The film went on to only put 82 people ( King,2015) in each showing on opening weekend, and out of those only 68 people on average liked the film ( The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2015). Far from the approval rating that The Return of The King of 86% (The Return of the King, 2015) had 10 years prior. Another example of this trend is the Hangover Trilogy. The Hangover was released on Memorial Day weekend of 2009 to stellar reviews and a 44 million dollar opening weekend haul. In fact, the film beat out Warner Brother’s expectations for the weekend and beat out Disney/Pixar’s Up and Universal’s adaption of Land of the Lost for #1. (Fritz, 2015) The Audience reaction was through the roof, at 79% fueling an average of 88 people per opening weekend screening (King,2014). Not bad for a film of relative unknown comedians and the guy who directed Old
Now, flash forward to modern day. The United States is overseas battling foreign powers, the nation’s first African American is in the Whitehouse, and Justin Bieber is dominating our air …show more content…
For example, the Hobbit films that were released in the last few years. In 2012, when the first Hobbit was released, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the hype was real. It might have been 9 years later, but with Peter Jackson returning to Middle Earth Fans were hoping for the best. Unfortunately, fan’s dreams were smashed to bits when on December 13, 2012 the film hit theaters, and it was nowhere near what audiences expected. The critics jumped on the film for being long and over draught (which fans threw a blind eye to) and fans rose their expectations. The film went on to only put 82 people ( King,2015) in each showing on opening weekend, and out of those only 68 people on average liked the film ( The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2015). Far from the approval rating that The Return of The King of 86% (The Return of the King, 2015) had 10 years prior. Another example of this trend is the Hangover Trilogy. The Hangover was released on Memorial Day weekend of 2009 to stellar reviews and a 44 million dollar opening weekend haul. In fact, the film beat out Warner Brother’s expectations for the weekend and beat out Disney/Pixar’s Up and Universal’s adaption of Land of the Lost for #1. (Fritz, 2015) The Audience reaction was through the roof, at 79% fueling an average of 88 people per opening weekend screening (King,2014). Not bad for a film of relative unknown comedians and the guy who directed Old