A excellent movie with a few rough edges

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2013)

I have seen this movie twice, on opening night in IMAX 3D and again half a month later, again in IMAX 3D, and both times I have Been thrilled with nearly 3 hours of pure imagination, creativity and excellence. I actually would give it a 8.5/10, but I was so mad at reading all these untrue shitty reviews that I said 10/10 just to show them! It received many bad reviews, saying it was sluggish, boring and bloated, but I personally did not agree. If you had just seen The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and then watched The Hobbit, without reading the books, I think you might feel that way, but My personal belief, and I understand you might feel differently, is that you have to really get into the essence of Middle Earth for this movie to be appreciated to its full potential. I also realize there are fans just of the books, and, like the Tolkiens, hate everything to do with the movies. My middle earth education began at four, I read the hobbit at 8 and the fellowship at 9, and I am learning elvish jut because I got the midnight premiere posters, so I have been a fan for over 2/3 of my life. Yes, I had one or two things that I felt could have been better, but it WAS a very excellent movie, just had a few rough edges, such as: 1. The goblin king's voice. Not nasty enough. 2. Thorin bugged me a bit sometimes, like when he fights Azog at the near-end. Dude, just get up and kick his ass already! 3. Sometimes Bilbo took the backseat. Jeez Bilbo, it's YOUR movie! I encourage you very strongly to see it for yourself. I also really enjoyed all the back story, and I thought it tied in a lot of stuff. At the risk of making a boring movie Peter Jackson wove together all the yarns and strings together to make one beautiful Purple Corduroy Coat Modeled by one homesick young Hobbit. I would probably see it for a third time, and I am most certainly going to the midnight premiere of the other two, in IMAX 3D, and buy the extended versions on DVD. So no more crappy reviews people!!!!!!