Can't find a dedicated thread on this, but watched it last night.
I loved The Hobbit as a book when I was younger, but watching the film, it seems like they've tried to turn a fun children's story into a fully integrated prologue to Lord of the Rings: padded with events probably from the Silmarillion, and lots of unnecessary and completely boring fight scenes.
I can understand why they might have done this, but somewhere along the way, the fun part seems to have disappeared.
Instead we have a film that is far too slow, labours far too long on the grim background, adds complete silliness for the sake of modern entertainment, and is filled with pointless grim fighting.
Oh, and we end up with a wearying "pale orc" who feels like a Hollywood attempt to fixate the the adversity of the dwarves into a single silly machismo figure, which goes so against the grain of the book. And - wtf - Radaghast appears with belly cramping non-hilarity, turning what should be an enigmatic figure into a silly slapstick one of no real consequence.
Perhaps I'm a heretic - I never really got much out of the Lord of the Rings films, and always preferred The Hobbit book over Lord of the Rings (Which I found inconsistent in tone and pointlessly grim).
But this film - it's supposed to be the story of Bilbo Baggins, but instead has been turned into a bigger montage about the grimness of Middle Earth and a celebration of male machismo among the dwarves and orces.
This isn't a film about The Hobbit book - it's one over-running cutscene from the beginning of the Lord of the Rings films.
Am I the only one to feel I wasted money buying the disc?
I loved The Hobbit as a book when I was younger, but watching the film, it seems like they've tried to turn a fun children's story into a fully integrated prologue to Lord of the Rings: padded with events probably from the Silmarillion, and lots of unnecessary and completely boring fight scenes.
I can understand why they might have done this, but somewhere along the way, the fun part seems to have disappeared.
Instead we have a film that is far too slow, labours far too long on the grim background, adds complete silliness for the sake of modern entertainment, and is filled with pointless grim fighting.
Oh, and we end up with a wearying "pale orc" who feels like a Hollywood attempt to fixate the the adversity of the dwarves into a single silly machismo figure, which goes so against the grain of the book. And - wtf - Radaghast appears with belly cramping non-hilarity, turning what should be an enigmatic figure into a silly slapstick one of no real consequence.
Perhaps I'm a heretic - I never really got much out of the Lord of the Rings films, and always preferred The Hobbit book over Lord of the Rings (Which I found inconsistent in tone and pointlessly grim).
But this film - it's supposed to be the story of Bilbo Baggins, but instead has been turned into a bigger montage about the grimness of Middle Earth and a celebration of male machismo among the dwarves and orces.
This isn't a film about The Hobbit book - it's one over-running cutscene from the beginning of the Lord of the Rings films.
Am I the only one to feel I wasted money buying the disc?