I want those what seemed like 8 hours back!!!

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2014)

... a self-serious, pretentious, joyless, humorless, depressingly shot in gloomy tones way too violent for my 11 year old son seemingly endless pointless quest towards something ( what were they journeying to?? i dunno... ) movie that went on way too way too way too LONG and didn't get good until, like, two hours and forty minutes into it.... the dragon. yes, the dragon was the only thing good and you had to sit for it for far too long... and then ( spoiler ) they just let it go at the the end for Part Three... my son, who has read the book, cannot figure out why this is being stretched out into three movies. would have, maybe, made one ( 1 ) good movie..but three?? this one totally sucked, the first one at least had light, joyous tones to it.. songs in the opening feast scene... funny ogres who were gonna eat Bilbo.. the classic Gollum scene.. lotsa good stuff... this one, um, didn't.