POINTLESS, no character development or emotion, BORING

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2012)

The Hobbit SUCKED. It's like Star Wars Episode 1, all effects, no character development or emotional content. No charm, no magic.
Horribly cliché script and dialog, terrible pacing (did we really need to see dwarfs eating for a half hour?). You know there's a problem with the entire audience is happy to see Gollum--and he elicits the most empathy!
Really, this was inexcusably bad, from the dwarf makeup that looked like early Star Trek prosthetics, to the boring effects, to them slowly traipsing through New Zealand which we saw three times before.
This was about nothing. Bilbo should be the center of the movie, right, but he wasn't. You didn't get to know him or care. He goes from freaking out because the dwarfs are using his dishes, to the next morning waking up and wanting to go with them-- with NO hint of why his character would make such a huge shift.
It doesn't matter how much CGI you have, if you don't have people to root for, you simply don't care and all those battles are boring! Compare this with "Life of Pi" where the CGI was totally in service of the characters, where you cares about the boy--and even the tiger!
There was NO POINT TO THIS MOVIE. It's insulting and stupid that they're turning this one book into three bad movies, just try to make one GOOD one. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS 3 HOUR WASTE OF TIME!