Jackson and The Acorn

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2014)

The other reviews here are totally on point about how Jackson deviated from Tolkien's beautiful, charming story of a hobbit in creating a bloviated trilogy epic to mirror Lord of the Rings. (Where Jackson was superb.) In doing so, he created and brought in unnecessary characters, added banal dialog, inserted a stilted love story, and kept the CGI battles - single and mass - going on so long that viewer fatigue sets in. He forgot that Bilbo is the main character. And even with all the filler, many questions and elements of the ending in the book went unresolved.
There is a touching scene (in a movie with few) where Bilbo shows Thorin an acorn he brought from Beorn's garden to plant in his own in the Shire. At the end, Thorin tells Bilbo that the simple, warm things like home and hearth are worth more than all the gold in the world.
Would that Jackson had remembered this in directing The Hobbit.