Lack of soul really hurts

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2015)

Lord of the Rings: so many moments which I vividly remember, some examples ...
Part 1: Beautiful landscapes; lovable characters; gradually expanding storyline; White Council at Rivendell; fight with the Balrog & the Uruk-Hai; heartbreaking scenes like Gandalf's or Boromir's death or the reunion of Frodo and Sam.
Part 2: Again beautiful movie; epic war at Helm's Deep and Isengard; goosebumps when the Ents march to fight Saruman; caring for Frodo & Sam; excited about the first real life CGI character Gollum.
Part 3: Breathtakingly towering Minas Tirith; epic war on the Pelennor fields; Frodo & Sam reaching Mount Doom after killing Shelob; moved to tears during the endings, especially Frodo's leaving to Grey Havens.
Hobbit: oh well ... Part 1: Beautiful Hobbiton; seeing Gandalf again; nice (but very similar and unfunny) dwarf characters; Stone Giants Part 2: Smaug (I hated Stephen Fry's role and the whole Laketown stuff) Part 3: Pfffff ...
Really I have problems to remember what really happened in the Hobbit trilogy because there was no real story line. Jackson tried hard to inject some emotions here and there but this didn't really work most of the time (Tauriel & Kili ? Epic fail). Even the music is much worse compared to the stuff that Howard Shore composed for LOTR, also emotionally lacking.
I'm glad it's over now.