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Where the Lord of the Rings films all earned over 90 percent approval ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey came in at 64 percent, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug at 74 percent, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies at a grim 59 percent. The Bilbo Baggins-centric films largely proved sluggish to both fans and critics. It's clear throughout the Hobbit trilogy, however, that Jackson's heart may not have been completely in the franchise anymore.

It'll come as no particular shock to anyone at this point, but Jackson's original The Lord of the Rings trilogy scored a cinematic trifecta by also delivering the goods at the box office.Īgainst his own better judgment, Jackson ended up filling the empty director's chair himself, and set out to bring the $700-million-dollar trilogy to the big screen in his own way. While critical adoration and awards season glory are all well and good, the sad truth of the entertainment biz is that movies, particularly franchises, are measured not by glowing reviews or coveted trophies but by how much of the old do-re-mi ends up in a studio's coffers. The cherry on top of The Lord of the Rings' unparalleled success came, of course, at the 2004 Academy Awards ceremony where the trilogy-capping The Return of the King cleaned up - taking home a statue for Best Picture and netting a Best Director win for Jackson. actually outdid themselves on all fronts with the subsequent sequels, 2002's The Two Towers and 2003's The Return of the King.

Luckily for the world - particularly the studios who backed the pricey, simultaneous production of Jackson's trilogy - 2001's The Fellowship of the Ring was met with wide critical praise and a fantasy-loving audience hungry to devour the director's visionary exploration of Tolkien's Middl-earth tales.Įven more impressive than The Fellowship of the Ring's critical and commercial success is that Jackson and co. It might be a bit difficult to actually wrap your head around the fact, but almost two decades have passed since Peter Jackson unleashed the first chapter in his long-gestating adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy tale The Lord of the Rings upon eager fans.