Boring as heck

Rating: 4/10 (31 December 2012)

After hesitating for a while between Django Unchained and the Hobbit, my wife and I chose to watch the latter. I read many bad reviews but some people also suggested that it was still worth seeing. Since I was quite curious about the high frame rate and that my wife was equally interested in both flicks, we went for the Hobbit. Well, I should have trusted the reviews instead.
This Hobbit is basically a cheap movie with a big budget. Kinda like giving $100 millions to director Uwe Boll. The directing is terrible. I actually doubt whether Peter Jackson directed it himself or if it's mostly the work of some second and third team. We get to see lots of people staring at the horizon trying to convey emotions that are not there (especially Thorin). Many pointless shots of little people wandering in the mountains. Poor dialogs. Boring flashbacks. You name it. It's not even entertaining and accidentally funny like a real Uwe Boll movie. I mean, it's campy but just not campy enough to keep you awake for 3 hours. Many scenes look like those made-for-TV reenactments. Not sure it's just the bad acting; it could be due to the high frame rate that makes things look too real. Basically, we paid $32 only to be bored and disappointed. We are not even going to bother watching the other episodes. I read somewhere that the Hobbit felt like the never ending end of LOTR3. I will have to agree with that.
There might have been two scenes that I kind of found entertaining. The one with Gollum and the escape from the goblin den which almost looked like a cool platform video game.
I never read the book before but the movie definitely didn't make me want to. All I know is that my wife read it when she was young and loves it (the book). Yet, we both felt the same about the movie. It was corny. Kids, die-hard fans of heroic fantasy and people who enjoy CGI might find ways to enjoy it. We didn't.