Absolute crap of a film

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2012)

Before I start, let me first say that I LOVE the books... The Hobbit and the three that make up LOTR.
First, like any book to movie, they play fast and loose with the book. WHY the HECK do Hollywood re-writers think they can improve on what the author did... I'll never get.
So much was added to tie it into the already made LOTR that it was sad.
They added lots to the intro. They played around with the personalities of characters. They added action and fight scenes that ARE NOT in the book.
Parts of the book that COULD have been done right, like Bilbo's escape from Gollum, or the "Fifteen birds in FIVE fir trees.." with the wargs and such under the trees....get absolutely screwed over.
The "Fifteen birds in FIVE fir trees.." plays a good part in the book later...but......
Too many more to go on with. I was shaking my head throughout the movie...... and about 25 minutes nto the movie I already wanted to stand up and leave.
If you LOVE the book, don't watch this.
The way he ended the Lord of the Rings, by cutting out ENTIRELY the retaking of the Shire and the demise of Sauruman should be all you need to know he'd botch this up, too.