Now it was time to wrap it up...

Rating: 3/10 (5 January 2015)

*** SPOILERS EVERYWHERE ***
I have read the books 20 years ago. For years, I have played role games based in the LOTR in my youth. I have listen to the audio books of the Hobbit and of the full LOTR. Yet I don't consider myself a fanatic about the Tolkien universe, I recall that the first movie from 2001 left me a bit disappointed.
I recall that I was feeling that the movie had an excellent cast, that the music was outstanding, and I loved to finally have a clear vision of what I constructed in my mind during my childhood. But at the same time I was disappointed with little details that I was not ready to understand. Stuff like the way Aragorn fight the black riders for the first time, or why we had a love-story in the way... details that were big at first, and became lighter after watching the movie, then later the extended, and finally getting immerse in the mighty world Jackson created. At the end of the LOTR, I was sad it was over.
Then I heard about the Hobbit, a trilogy again! It couldn't be better, I thought. Plenty of time for developing characters, for getting amazed with another set of views of the Middle Earth. This time I was ready for weird plots coming in, to please some illiterate producer that does not get that you can get an excellent movie without old clichés.
But something got twisted, and more twisted, and re-twisted, and by the second half of the desolation of Smaug I started to feel something I've never felt before. I was sick of THIS Middle Earth. As if Peter Jackson was presenting us a joke of what a real "The Hobbit" movie could have been: No character development, bad done CGI everywhere, awful lines, and that Legolas playing God-mode-on....
I mean, come on! in the LOTR we saw how savage an orc can be. How difficult is to kill a beast. We had Boromir, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn,... freaking out because there was a troll (small size after all) in Moria. It took minutes to kill it. Then we have this last movie where there are giant troll rushing in the battle, but crumpling in seconds.
I could go on for hours pointing out what is wrong... this third (sixth) last movie, is plainly bad directed. Many things are unreal, unbelievable,... not many years ago Jackson presents us that dwarfs can get tired, out of breath,... here they move along the field, up and down a mountain, without much problem.
I am sorry it's over. But this time it's different: I am sorry there is no time to fix it. Now it's done, and all this mistakes will be like the reflection of what it could be done. An artist, a creator such as Jackson, should have had more caution.