too long by far

Rating: 6/10 (9 December 2012)

Dear Peter Jackson, after giving us perfect films in the Rings trilogy, you now have to go and spoil things. the warnings started with King Kong a very good film but a half hour too long. You then take what should have been a smallish film and you blow The Lovely Bones up and inflate it to a level that brings on tedium. And now you take a small book and slight story and again inflate it to a ridiculously long running time. What should have been one punchy maybe three hour film you decided to make into three, and by judging the first one, overlong and unnecessarily long films. The other big contention with The Hobbit is your high frame rate, most of the film especially the interiors look like TV used to look in Britain, many decades ago, TV drama used to use film for all exterior scenes and Video for interiors and you would notice the big change in the look the film sequences giving an added lustre and look with the interiors dull and flat, well that's how many shots look like in the hobbit dull and flat, there is no magic no FILM look. The 3d was basically non existent. Considering this is made 12 years after Fellowship, and should have looked way better, its pretty dismal going. Also by making the Orcs cgi quite a bit has been lost here,the fights had no real impact. its a great shame that someone who started out making small but perfect films with short running times has now become so bloated.