I Love This Movie!

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2012)

This movie was absolutely perfect, and the critics are dead wrong. The cg is great, the acting is superb, and the music is top-notch. I didn't see the high frame rate version, but the 24 fps looked great. The 3d was very complimentary to the scenery, but just a bit blurry on fight scenes, which is expected. The film fit perfectly into Jackson's Middle Earth, and the tone was much more similar to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy than I was expecting. This is a great start to the trilogy, and it's so nice to visit Tolkien's beautiful world again. The movie overall was very true to the book, and the only things changed were minor. Teasing Smaug made the movie much more enjoyable, and the Goblin sequences were done tremendously. Gollum was one of the best things in the movie, maybe even the best, and the riddles in the dark scene was exactly how I imagined it would be in the book. I can't wait for the Desolation of Smaug. Thank you Peter Jackson!