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Peter Jackson says delivery driver told him ‘Hobbit’ movies were “crap”
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Peter Jackson says delivery driver told him ‘Hobbit’ movies were “crap”

NME·Victoria Luxford·19 days ago
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Peter Jackson has talked about the time a delivery driver told him The Hobbit movies were “crap”, mistakenly thinking they were directed by someone else. READ MORE: Every returning and new actor in ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum’ The New Zealand director helmed all three of The Lord Of The Rings films, released between 2001-03, later returning to adapt The Hobbit into three movies, released between 2012-14. While both trilogies were box office successes, The Hobbit films are considered by some to be inferior. The Rotten Tomatoes critics scores for all three Lord Of The Rings films are about 90 per cent, while the final Hobbit instalment, The Battle Of The Five Armies , scored just 59 per cent. During an on-stage appearance at Cannes this week, the filmmaker recalled the time a delivery driver unwittingly insulted the movies in front of him. The anecdote was captured on social media, and can be viewed below. “The FedEx delivery man pulls into the drive,” he begins.…

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