Unexpected Same Taste with a New Plot

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2013)

I will try to make a concise overview of the movie without analyzing it deeply and technically. First of all, I am a great fan of Hobbit and LOTR series. I read the books and saw the former movies in the movie theater probably more than three times each. In my last watch, I saw them all at once at one session which took my almost 10h straight from evening till morning with a horde of people inside a big theater in Munich Germany.
Well, that was 10 years ago. When I have read, there will be THE prequel to LOTR, I was quite excited since Sir Jackson will be sitting on the director chair once again and the same common players (like Gandalf by Ian McKellen) will be on the new movie as well. In the beginning, I thought it would be only one movie since Hobbit itself is the shortest of all the four books. Later it revealed to be two parts and finally just recently turned out to be three movies. I was a bit worried that Hobbit series would not TASTE like the previous ones since the thinnest book will be segmented into three parts.
Well, after I saw the Unexpected Journey, it left an UNEXPECTED positive impression on me and I hurried to the theater once again at the earliest possibility. In fact just a few hours ago, I saw it the second time and decided to write my ever first review in IMDb. To tell you the truth the movie is beyond any expectation. Congrats and thanks to Peter Jackson. The TASTE is even better than previous ones. In the new series which is like a PROTOTYPE of the older series (a new journey with a different purpose though), there is a deep feeling of mourning and sadness. You understand this better when you see it the second time. The theme song of the movie 'Misty Mountains' which became also the general SCORE of the entire movie is also UNEXPECTEDLY in HARMONY with the score of the LOTR series with a new TASTE though. This is a wonderful job, congrats to Howard Shore for the awesome score that I couldn't keep my eyes from the tear drops and my mouth from murmuring of the words of the song. The mourning in the movie probably comes from the state of Dwarfs that basically they are homeless and the new trilogy is about to claim their home back and of course THE introduction for the ONE RING of the RINGS. Of no doubt revealing of colleagues of Gandalf like Radagast as well as new creatures make the movie unique and different than former ones.
Overall it was an UNEXPECTED same experience and I recommend to everybody, newcomers as well as definitely to older fans. By the way for sure that I will see it the third time on the BIG SCREEN before it's gone.
One last thing, I may not aware of it but THERE HAS TO BE DEFINITELY A STORY FOR the ONE STONE, THE ARKENSTONE. Even Mr Jackson would picture a new world with different races which took place long before than HOBBITs, who used THE ARKENSTONE for different purposes. Anyway, I thought it would make a perfect SPIN-OFF to the movie or a PREQUEL to the HOBBIT.