http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1690766/hobbit-trilogy-announced.jhtml

What do you think? I think this is a bad idea. There is not enough content. It seems to me they are just stretching it out to make more money. Instead of doing it in 4 years its going to be a year ordeal, assuming it takes 2 years to make each movie.

It wasn't a bad book IMO. I don't see how they couldn't expand on it.
I wonder if the retail disc version will ship 48 fps as well.

I personally love The Hobbit, It is my favorite Tolkien novel. I don't see how they can stretch this out so much.

I love the original Lord of the Rings movies, and have no doubt that Peter Jackson will do a fantastic job with this trilogy as well. It was already going to be a two part film, and this third addition is going to be based on the appendices from the books, so I see reason why they wouldn't be able to extend it to a third movie.

There's only one reason I don't like it:

Because I'll have to wait a year or longer for each part.

I've never seen a book compressed into a single 2-hour movie, so... this makes sense, actually. Let the story be told in full, why not? It's not like this chance will ever come again.

Of course they can but should they?
The Hobbit is a fairly straightforward story. Much of the background stuff won't add to the narrative and the main story will lose drive if padded too much.

So excited, There adding alot of stuff that was only mentioned in the books, like the war of dwarves and goblins, the fall of the necromancer, ragrast the brown!!!

The Hobbit would make a good two-part film, since that would give them just enough room to include all of the book's story without cutting a bunch of stuff out, but a trilogy is really stretching it.

This sounds like a decision that was made by a bunch of detached executives who want to milk the franchise for all its worth, not someone who just wants to make a good movie.

Not enough content? What book is ever translated word for word into a movie? Remember how much was cut from The Fellowship of the Ring? There is plenty to The Hobbit, so I wasn't surprised by the two movie approach and I'm not much more surprised by this. I just know waiting for all the movies is going to svck.