Peter Jackson's Hobbit, not J.R.R. Tolkien's

Rating: 3/10 (2 February 2013)

Bilbo recast as RAMBO.
If you always pictured Bilbo as a bad-ass mutha-f***er who chased down orcs and wargs with a knife, this movie is for you!
If you actually read 'The Hobbit', by J.R.R. Tolkien, and... you know, LIKED it, then this movie will make you sick. The rape of a classic.
Don't get me wrong. Great cinematography, special effects, sets, costumes... but very little besides borrowed names of places and people from the book found their way into this movie.
It is pure eye candy, and a treat to listen to.
Which is a shame. Given at least six hours to tell the tale, a great yarn full of humor and action, and commentary on humanity, you'd think we'd actually get the whole original book into the movie.
Instead, we get a standard Hollywood rape of the original. Every point where I thought, "Ahh, I remember this..." was soon replaced by "That's not how it went at all!" Devoid of its original humor and charm, and every character replaced with a one dimensional action movie caricature. He doesn't make minor changes to fit with a screenplay. Nope. He takes the setup for each scene in the book, and then re-writes it completely to suit his own taste, or possibly worse, what he thinks is his theater audience's taste, without any regard whatsoever to what Tolkien wrote. Then... he added MORE OF THAT, which was never in the book, just to have 'more'.