Fine movie but I'll tell you why it's way of LOTR

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2015)

I'll begin with saying that it's a decent movie, you can see they put in a lot of effort and luckily some of the effort is good.
With that said I'll start with why it's way of LOTR or any good movie.
1. It's too long. WAY too long. The LOTR movies were based off 3 big books, these three 2.5/3 hour movies were based off a small book that was used to set up LOTR. I personally didn't read the book but even I could figure out that all the action sequences of the movie weren't based off of big action sequences in the book."I actually got bored during a lot of scenes because nothing was happening.
2. The characters are forgettable. We once again have a fellowship, this time called "company of dwarfs" and I honestly only remember Thorin (who is the leader), Balin (because I knew the name of LOTR) and Gloin (because he is the father of Gimli). You also have Fili, Kili, Oin, Dwalin, Ori, Dori, Nori, Bifur, Bofur and Bombur but I never knew all those until I played the game "LEGO the Hobbit" (which also is a bad game). I also just noticed that all the names are pretty similar so I guess coming up with names wasn't that hard...
3. Too much use of Deus ex machina (when they get saved/don't die last minute). Every time that there is an action scene, at a certain point a character is about to die, however there is no suspense because you know they can't kill off main characters seeing that there will be 2 other movies. People get into trouble but are saved by some miracle and continue like nothing happened. This means no suspense and no big surprises, just a bunch of dumb action sequences.
4. Too much reference to/use of LOTR things. Of course when you are doing a prequel to LOTR you're gonna have a lot of things that have to to with LOTR but OMG are there a lot. Even the Star Wars prequels didn't have so much and I thought those were better in that way. First of all, when I think of Bilbo finding the ring, I think of the 20 second shot in LOTR, not the 20 minute scene in the Hobbit. The scene was nice because we saw how clever Bilbo was but it's once again stretched to the fullest to fill up time. Also, when I think of the story when Bilbo turned the trolls into stone, I think of the 20 second part he told in LOTR, not the 20 minute scene of the Hobbit (which has horrible CG, but I'll get to that). Then there is a part when the company comes to Rivendell, which could have been shorter of not in Rivendell but they go there to see the same things of LOTR cause it worked there so it'll work again in this movie right? Well, not really.
5. Terrible CG. When LOTR came out it had epic use of computer, so good that you felt everything created was real because it still looks real today. Now we're 10 years later so they should've done even better right? NO, all the computer created characters looked like they were made by a computer, rather than have a real feeling. In the sequence where they come to the underground goblin town, the goblins look bad. Then they come to their king and the Goblinking is one of the worst CG characters I've ever seen. The characters don't act like he's real, they don't make him look real, it's just a bunch of CG used to make money, rather than to make a good movie. Also, as I said before, the trolls in the troll scene look bad, not as bad as the Goblinking but still quite bad.
6. The ending. I hated the fact that they were saved by the eagles and that they didn't bother to fly just a little bit further to the mountain. The first one is a Deus ex machina so that has been written before. The second part is that if the eagles had flown just a little further, a lot of stupid and unnecessary parts of the second and maybe even third movie could've been skipped. Even though I liked the Desolation of Smaug a lot better than this one, it still has some weird parts that could've been skipped.
So it seems like I hated the movie. I don't, I like it for what it is but I just like to point out some stupid things that this movie did wrong.
Also, if you do like the Hobbit then good for you, don't let people like me tell you otherwise but in all honesty, it's not a good movie, just a way to get Peter Jackson and his crew more money.