Disappointed..Not half as good as any from the LOTR trilogy

Rating: 5/10 (15 January 2013)

First,I'm a huge LOTR fan but did not enjoy the Hobbit as much as any of the LOTR movies. Mainly, because unlike LOTR, which had 3 books which turned into a trilogy, here we have one book which is being turned into a trilogy, so the pace is really slow cos there isn't as much to tell.Besides this, some of the comic dialogue did not quite hit the mark - I enjoy corny nutty humour but these were amateurish dialogues, and here are 3 specific instances - like the joke Gandalf cracks about the time golf was invented, the time Gollum was talking to himself and Bilbo says I didn't say anything and when Theorin hugs Bilbo and says hes never been wronger in his life, the impact just wasn't there. Ian McKellens face looks puffed up and he does not look younger here, hes supposed to be 60 years younger, he looks like he was drinking excessively for a couple months and his face got puffed up cos of it. The visual impact was not as breathtaking. This movie could easily have been 2 hours 15 minutes, and been just as impactful, the extra half an hour was unnecessary, and a few parts were just downright draggggggggged - like the opening meet of the dwarfs at Bilbos house - over half an hour, could have been done in 20, and the sequence of Bilo with Gollum - just to state a couple instances.
Its pretty obvious the objective is to make 3 parts, and not just deliver the story - this should be a 2 part movie, not 3 or sure.
I've seen each of the LOTR extended versions 8 times each, and I've not got bored or felt anything dragging, cos there is that much story - here there isn't. 150 pages have been dragged over 170 minutes. I'll watch the LOTR trilogy a 9th time for sure, but I'd give this a pass.
Nothing hit me, no WOW feeling when the movie ended. Good effects - not as good as LOTR I must say - but good, but no impact - no variation is locales, too much of shooting and dialogue in one scene/shot before moving to the next. LOTR had a much better pace, or at least interchange of pace.
Well, sorry :-)
PS: Why on earth do some who write reviews write to impress the world with their vocabulary? Let it come from the heart. Some reviews here you read, they read like the writer is begging for attention to himself/ herself - they've sat back, made an essay, well scripted and edited it, god have mercy on these people, do they get no love? lol..