Terrible

Rating: 3/10 (20 January 2013)

This movie was lousy. How in the world do people think this is worthy of an 8.3? First of all, who shot this movie? This movie looks like it was shot with a hand-held video camera that was bought used at a local pawnshop. Seriously, it looks like crap. I saw it in 3D and during the pre-movie previews I was commenting to the girl I was sitting next to at what amazing strides 3D had made... seriously every movie that is coming out with 3D looks AWESOME. So the actual movie starts and it literally looks like a home-made movie. All I could think about is the awesome pre-movie previews of OTHER movies. I was thinking- why didn't a movie with this kinda budget use THAT CAMERA instead of the hand-held pawnshop camera that they obviously decided to use? In this instant movie (the Hobbit) You could see the makeup on the actor's faces. You could see the skin skull caps worn for the balding characters (i.e. the face makeup used to make non-bald characters look bald). It was atrocious... the worst special effects and photography and make up and whatever goes into making a movie "look real." It looked HORRENDOUS (which would be a compliment).
Second, the Acting was bad. Again it reminded me of some sort of perverse home-movie project. The word "Amateur" doesn't even accurately describe what I saw from the cast. A couple of decent actors were there, like the Dwarven leader of the pack, and Gandolf was okay. But beyond that, these actors were abysmal. Where on earth did they find these guys? Third, the Story. Well there really isn't a story. They are on a journey from point A to point B. Mind you that this is a one-book story....yet the insane director/writer decided to turn a non-event into a 3-movie disaster. This movie is like 3 hours long and nothing happens. Seriously. They go on a camping trip and get attacked a couple times....that's the movie. 3 hours to watch a bunch of bad actors go on a camping trip. AWFUL.
The list of atrocities would go on ad nauseum but it's not worth my effort or time to sit here and tell you about em. It sucked, bottom line- nothing else to say.