"An Unexpected Journey"

Rating: 6/10 (14 December 2012)

I personally think the one main reason why I'm not satisfied with The Hobbit is because of how Lord of the rings impacted me. The trilogy to this day is one of the best of the best that I have seen and I unfairly made Hobbit a film with very high expectations. Of course living up to those expectations is really hard and evident in the movie. If you compare the two prologues between Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit you will see a dramatic difference and change. This is clearly inevitable but like all modern movies, the Hobbit strongly incorporates CGI which was not seen in it's predecessors but yet there is a huge circumstantial difference between these two films. Maybe its just people like me who enjoy movies that don't use a lot of CGI or maybe its just because that Lord of the rings was made in a time where we were still scratching the surface of this technology. I sincerely enjoyed the Hobbit as it brought old memories back from the Lord of the Rings like Galadriel, El Rond and Gandalf. Characters who are stamped in my memory and I'm grateful that I got a chance to see them again. I don't really want to focus on the plot since that really is connected to the book which is not relevant to the cinematic aspects. I truly underestimated Martin Freeman's acting, wasn't a big fan of him but I really enjoyed his portrayal of a young Bilbo. For the dwarfs I really don't have much to say, the acting is just mediocre which is what you really expect from them since there's like 13 Dwarfs. I personally think none of them were able to achieve John Rhys-Davies's portrayal of Gimli which was right on the spot for a dwarf. Some of them were either to barbaric or too passive really. Elijah Wood still hadn't change a bit and really I don't have much others to say.