I hated this!

Rating: 2/10 (19 December 2012)

A few days ago I saw this movie and I hated it. About half way through I was planning on just walking out, but I felt self-conscious because I was near the front of the audience, so I waited for a darker scene, but it never came. What a stupid movie! I think the original trilogy of "The Lord Of The Rings" is the greatest film ever made. I have the extended box set with the behind the scenes features and I love it, but this new movie was a real let-down.
I never read the book, but I cannot believe that Tolkien could write such crap! It was like Jim Henson meets Disney/Pixar. The scrips played like it was written by a Hollywood sit-com writer because it lacked all the depth of the original trilogy. Everything moved too fast, the sound-track had an 'in-your-face' feel to it, and there was never any real 'tension' in the story. It was a bunch of dwarfs on a ridiculous 'George Lucas' adventure where the 'danger' never really felt real because nobody ever got hurt and you just knew all along that everyone would be just fine in the end. It was like they took elements of the original trilogy and felt the need to 'explain in more detail' so we would have a deeper understanding, but I liked the way it was before. I hated the beginning scene with the dwarfs all ignoring Bilbo in his home and being total pigs. I hated the trolls trying to cook the dwarfs and the whole 'snot' scene. The wizard with bird-sh!t on his head. That gross character in the end with the beard of fat, the talking Ork lord that looked like it came right out of some made-for-TV vampire series. And why does Bilbo find the ring differently in this movie? At the end of it, during that stupid pine-cone scene, I was expecting those trees to start walking around. They brought back every other character so why not that.
It was a waste of time and money and I can't believe that the key producers like Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh were at the head of this. Obviously they are now appealing to an audience devoid of any intellect. Don't go to this movie!