Leaf, I'm only speaking for myself; but I never thought that Peter Jackson was a 'dummy'. I felt that he and others didn't have the abilities to properly adapt Tolkien's works, in particular
The Hobbit, in terms of plot and characterisation.
I therefore agree with what
William said here:
No, the problem I think is that neither Jackson nor Boyens has the vision or sensitivity to let Tolkien take them out of their very narrow comfort zone of cliches and hackneyed tropes;
I would have liked to have seen what Guillermo Del Toro would have made of
The Hobbit, at least because I would have seen
more adaptations of Tolkien's works.