An Unexpected Boredom

Rating: 3/10 (23 November 2013)

I liked the LOTR movies. The first one, I thought was very good and the second and third were good enough. Nothing spectacular but not junky either.
However, this first installment of The Hobbit movie trilogy is so boring...
Endless scene after scene of characters running, swinging swords, shouting, screaming then running and fighting and falling again.
Who cares? Not much dialogue. Not much story progression. Not much of anything. Just 3 hours of really bad CGI and dull, dull characters.
Just a movie obviously drawn out so it can last 9+ hours over three installments.
I didn't care about any of the characters including Gandolf who I adored in The Fellowship of The Ring. But, even the brilliant and usually interesting Ian McClellan couldn't save this lazily made achingly boring mess.
I don't care if anymore of these movies come out. But I am going to read the book over again to recapture the richness and excitement of Tolkein's wonderful book.