Will The Hobbit end up "rotten"?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What I would like to see is a film of The Children of Húrin.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Some of the stories that were published in Unfinished Tales may have been contemporaneous with The Hobbit, but they were so different tonally that reconciling them would be an impossible feat.

Technically, the movie can't draw upon Unfinished Tales.  Jackson only has rights to The Hobbit and LOTR, not the whole Tolkien corpus.  However, the details that are being added are found in the LOTR Appendices.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I doubt it, but like the Star Wars Prequels, it will never match the Original Trilogy.

I don't think this will suffer from the same problems those did.

Meesa is hoping yousa is right.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

My dad just told me they're doing a trilogy with this? I thought it was only 2 parts.  How on earth are they turning this into a 9-hour trilogy?  Yikes.

It was two parts.  As I understand it, the added third part will mainly cover material from the LOTR (mainly in the Appendices) as to what was going on elsewhere at the same time and what happened between Bilbo returning from his journey and Frodo leaving for his journey.  So the third Hobbit film will actually be more of a zeroth LOTR film.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The distortion of Faramir's character is indeed disturbing, which is why it is one of my main grievances against Peter Jackson -that, and the army of the dead being loosed upon the Fields of Pelennor when they only took the Corsairs' ships outside Pelargir in the book. 

Having the army of the dead come to Pelennor makes sense for a movie tho.  First off all, it simplifies some of the plot, but more importantly it provides a visual explanation why the army of Mordor is routed there as opposed to the cerebral explanation of their leader is dead so the orcs and such go all goofy.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

There's quite a disconnect going on between the critics and the audience in their perception of the movie.

65% of critics rated 'The Hobbit' highly, while around 80% of moviegoers liked it.  

A fair number of the moviegoers are likely fanboys who already know what the story is about, perhaps even in more detail than Jackson slathered onto the screen.  Thus they will be judging it on how well it brings the book to life for them.  Whereas even if they know and like the book, many critics are judging it as a standalone movie in its own right.