What made you change your mind?
December 28, 2012 | 06:58 PM

"I guess the Academy decided that this was the last chance to get on record as having noticed one of the great achievements in film history -- the excellent adaptation of the greatest work of fiction of the 20th century, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings."

This quote is from Uncle Orson Reviews everything in 2005.

I understand opinions change over time, but how did we go from that to:

"Watching Peter Jackson make a joke out of Tolkien's magnificent Lord of the Rings and of Tolkien's amusing but much slighter The Hobbit may lead some people to think that great works of literature are inevitably trashed when converted to film form."

Seems like a pretty drastic shift, I am curious as to what caused this change in perspective.

Let me be clear, I'm not trying to be clever or snide here, I really would just like to know why you once thought so highly of the trilogy but no longer do anymore.


Samuel Ascher-Weiss