I strongly disliked the Peter Jackson movies. I think the original trilogy would have been better served by a series like this though, so I'm at least a little interested to see how this turns out.
Not heavily invested either way, but curious if you could elaborate.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen the movies that I can’t elaborate on the specifics too much. But in general I didn’t care for Jackson’s artistic choices when it came to altering the story to fit into the film length,* a lot of the dialogue that didn’t come from the book, and the overall visual of the films which were heavily colorized and CGI’d and felt something like being in a Thomas Kinkade painting. Really didn’t care for Elijah Wood. There were things that I thought they got right in terms of the general look of the characters, costumes, etc. But a lot of it came off as cheesy to me. I remember really disliking what they did to the Council of Elrond scene, Galadriel when she talks to Frodo about the ring was another part I thought was all wrong. And then a lot of the action was over the top. One that stands out is a scene where Legolas surfs down an oliphaunt’s trunk like Tarzan from the Disney animated film.
*I realize this was necessary, but it’s one reason a TV series might have handled the material better. In general, I think a lot of the story elements and personality of the characters in the books could have been developed more over a lengthy series.