The Hobbit Trilogy

[Dave Gray]

My wife and I are really enjoying The Rings of Power. We're watching the Game of Thrones show as well (House of the Dragon), but so far Rings has been much more captivating. It's also just awesomely shot and you definitely see where all the money went. (I am getting tired of having to subscribe to a thousand different streaming services, though.)

I'm watching and enjoying both of these, but I seem to be more invested in House of the Dragon, so far.  It's the one that I seem to get to faster.

[Pappy13]

The LoTR movies were epic in every way. Everyone should see them at least once. I've tried to get my wife to watch, but she won't watch anything that's fantasy. I had started to read the LoTR books but only made it about 1/2 through them, but fortunately I didn't need to have read the books for those movies.

The Hobbit on the other hand I think requires that you have some investment in the movies already to enjoy them. Maybe if you read the book for example. I had read the Hobbit and really enjoyed the movies. For what it's worth I LOVED the Bilbo character MUCH better than I liked the Frodo Baggins character and I also preferred that there was much less of Gollum's character in the Hobbit as he became annoying after a while in my opinion in the LoTR so I think there's a give and take to the two trilogies. Obviously LoTR is better, but Hobbit is not all bad. It's also not like there's no parts of LoTR that are bad, there's just a lot more good in those films.