The hobbit; ruins the spirit of the original book.

Rating: 1/10 (23 March 2014)

This movie is based upon a book named the hobbit, and another series called the Silmarillion, wrote by J.R.R Tolkien. This is a bad decision because it leaves the story unfocused, jumping to other plots that do not pertain to the story of the hobbit at all! And the camera do not help this jumping around at all. These camera move all over the place! If you want to make an epic adventure movie with atmosphere, a steady camera is important. There is no time to breathe or look at the world around you! The entire movie is a blur of information that goes by too fast and messily for you to take a break and and say; "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, here's the story so far..." It feels disjointed and overblown.
But camera issues aren't the only problem. The main problem is that it ruins the original spirit of the book! The best example are the orcs that follow around the dwarfs. I hate them so much! And not in a good way. I hate seeing them on screen because every other second, they are in another action fighting scene with the dwarfs! I am SICK of them! It is the same every time! There were no orcs on the dwarfs' butts in the BOOK, so why does the movie need them?
The best example of how the movie ruins the spirit of the book is the barrel scene. Gee, I HATE this scene! In the book, the dwarfs have to escape the elves by hiding inside barrels and floating down the river toward Lake town. It is clever and it is also like; "Yeah, we escaped those elves and they don't even know it! Ha ha ha! Suckers!" But here, the elves know they escaped and start attacking them! With a battle scene like this, you can't appreciate how sneaky it is because a battle scene is being forced into your stupid face. It is as if Peter Jackson is waving keys in front of our faces. We aren't stupid! But the again, ho can we APPRECIATE the sneakiness if the elves learn about the plans before the dwarfs leave! In addition to that, the orcs come to fight the dwarfs. What commences is a battle scene with the dwarfs, elves, and orcs all together. And it is over the top! For example, in the scene, for a few seconds, Bofur the dwarf receives dwarf barrel battle armor. Sounds silly, huh? That's because it is.
So that is my diagnosis of this film; a fast-paced, unmemorable, disrespectful to the books MESS nd large disappointment to Tolkien fans.