Jackson has made a Star Wars I-III

Rating: 2/10 (19 December 2014)

It's sad to see Hobbiton go out like this but I never really had high hopes for the movie of this beloved children's, and I emphasis children's, story. Why? Because Jackson apparently didn't understand the difference between the Hobbit and the LOTR's trilogy. The Hobbit is a lighter book, a grand adventure of a little man going out into the world for the first time. It is also the story of a King trapped in the mistakes of his ancestors. The LOTR was a massive tale of friendship, loyalty, royalty, failure and triumph which needed to be told over a series of books. The Hobbit was not that kind of story and so the movie just seems overstuffed, fabricated from multiple other sources, long and boring. Too much fighting, not enough about characters that we're supposed to care about, bad writing overall and even worse score. Beside the song from the first movie there is no decent music at all. I was just amazed at how awful the score really was even compared to other movies. I gave it 2/10 and those two stars are for Freeman's performance as Bilbo and the Ian McKellen who is always good. They were the only two who tried their darn est to rise above this grotesque material.