A true but maybe slightly to critical review

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2012)

The hobbit
while I originally was going to not see the film at all due to the ridiculousness of making a small book into three movies (can anyone say sell out?), a free ticket came my way. I enjoyed watching the film in an almost entirely empty theater on opening weekend but mostly because I made jokes with my brothers throughout it. The first three fourths of the film were slowÂ… Very slow. And mostly were made up of voice-overs after voice-overs And so on. I wondered how they were going to make the movies last so long, apparently there technique was to just read the book while actors fought in the background. It would have been better if they used more of the actual lines from the book, as the lines that weren't written by Tolkien were "follow your nose" quality. The movie had highlights, there were 10 minutes of the film that were spectacular (Gollum!) the problem is it was a three hour movie. it did have a dramatic arc unlike I feared but In the end it was still only one third of a movie that I'm going to have to wait a year to see the rest. It would've been a great miniseries and waiting a week between the episodes would've been fine. With that said the main actor did wonderful, and if they would have let him use more of his stellar comedic timing he could have done for this movie what Robert Downey Junior did for Iron Man, but the movie was too busy trying to look epic to be enjoyable. The flaws in The Lord of the Rings that were only slight irritations made this movie drag. Someone needs to teach Peter Jackson the word "Cut", and this film almost had as many beginnings as, Return of the King had endings. However despite being marred with sensationalism of the Indiana Jones and the crystal skull type action, the ending was well done and almost wiped the first two hours of boredom from my memory. However if you don't look at the... (well not movie more like...) episode holistically, and rate it only by its highlights, it had lots to love. I'd watch it in the comfort of your own home, so you can do other things while you watch for the good parts, and I'd really wait three years so you can finish the movie. Just my thoughts from a Lord of the Rings fan