I cannot help watching this movie without wondering what the first trilogy could have been.

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 2018)

And with that statement, I do not want to manage down the original Lord of The Rings trilogy, which most of us agree they are far superior than The Hobbit trilogy. However, the budget difference between both trilogies is mind boggling. The first trilogy had a budget of $300 million overall, all three movies combined. The Hobbit trilogy costed around $800 million dollars to make. This means that almost each Hobbit movie had all the budget of all LOTR movies combined. As I said, mind boggling. I sometimes wonder how the original trilogy would have turned out, with that budget. I any case, "The Hobbit" is another example of spending tons of cash does not make a good movie.
Despite this, the Hobbit trilogy is a spectacle to watch, the story drags too much across the three movies and probably one single installment would have made more sense. However, Jackson, Boyens and Walsh managed to complement the original novel with bits and pieces of the LOTR books and the Silmarillion, making the next installment of the cinematic Tolkien Universe.
This movie was panned down by critics. Overall, the trilogy amassed around $3 billion, exactly what the first trilogy did. I think the world is ready for more movies set in the Tolkien world. Do you know there is a TV show coming up, right? I cannot wait.