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'Hobbit' Director Debate Ignores Critical Fact that 'Hobbit' is Rubbish [Middling Earth]
Posted on April 25, 2008
There's been much to-do over the last day about Peter Jackson's hiring of Guillermo del Toro to direct the two-part Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit. Among our favorite dissenting opinions belongs to Salon critic Andrew O'Hehir, who pulls out his Cannes '06 interview notebook to look up del Toro's sentiment at the time: I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don't like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits I've never been into that at all. I don't like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff. Our sister blog Gawker doesn't like del Toro's selection either, but we're optim...
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