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Yeah, that still ranks as my most despised addition across all six movies. TTT overall I thought was rather disappointing when it first released. The EE was much, much better. There was definitely no shortage of nerd-rage for each of the LoTR films when they came out. I think a lot of people...

He was pissed off over LoTR long before The Hobbit. I doubt highly that he's seen even a second of any of The Hobbit movies, at least not on purpose.

I don't care how fantastic of an adaptation The Hobbit might have been, it could never match LoTR. The source material just wouldn't allow it, which, I think, created a lot of the problem with Jackson's adaptation. He clearly went to great lengths to bind the two trilogies together and infuse...

This. There are plenty of good things in these movies; easily more good than bad, especially when discussing the EEs. And while the bad can be pretty awful, nothing has come close to Jar Jar, or sand getting everywhere, or the "acting" of Christensen and Portman (which I blame squarely on...

Shelob belonged where she was from a chronological standpoint. Remember, TTT and RoTK were split and separated into Frodo/Sam and then everyone else. When you get to Frodo's storyline in TTT the book, time goes back significantly from where you left off with the other characters and ends up well...

Nah, this was definitely better than DoS. It's really different from the first film, so it's tougher to compare. It's too short rather than too long. It's definitely the most character-driven of the three, and that's a good thing. There's still plenty of stupid shit to bitch about, but this time...

It's pretty evident that Jackson and/or the studio took into consideration the complaints about there being too much bloat in the previous two films. The problem is that they took it too far, and ironically, this one is too short as a result. If you're paying attention, you can clearly pick out...

Beorn's in it for maybe 15 seconds, but you do see him take apart some orcs. It's definitely too brief and I really hope they add more of him into the EE as they did for the EE of DOS.

I don't think it has much to do with what came first, at least not nearly as much as it has to do with LoTR (the book) simply being the superior work. Even the best possible adaptation of The Hobbit, whether done in 1 film or 15, could never touch the majesty and epic qualities of LoTR. The...

Not that I care for the opinions of most critics, but if that holds, it'll still end up a good deal better than the first two. I'm not sure what else you could hope for at this point. Even if it turns out to be amazing, it's not going to convert anyone who strongly disliked the previous films...

Umm, yeah, the Dwarf that looks like a 21-year-old male model looks just like the giant fat one with the giant braided beard... Making the Dwarves all very distinct in look and personality (well, the ones that actually speak) is something I think they actually did fairly good with. And...

Yeah, most of the things that I would consider bad about these movies aren't bad because they're book deviations, they're just...bad. I'd be fine with 12 hours worth of The Hobbit if all of the extraneous stuff was actually compelling and made sense within the context of the world. Snot jokes...

I'm in the minority that believes that the three-movie decision was not a simple cash-grab by the filmmakers. I think they are certainly as passionate and as hard-working as they were with LoTR. Watch the endless behind-the-scenes material that was put together for these films and it'll be made...

The only changes made to the actual plot were done in the Riddles of the Dark chapter. The ring is made a bit more menacing and of much greater importance to Gollum, but it's never explained why, or even hinted at. Gollum is also made much nastier. The original riddle game was a pretty polite...

The eagles couldn't take the ring because it would have corrupted them, as it would any powerful being who handled it. This was driven home in the movies pretty frequently. At the end, even the "incorruptible" Hobbit Frodo couldn't destroy it. And yes, Sauron would have noticed a flock of giant...

I like how so much of the marketing says how this one is "the defining chapter!" It's clear that they are aware that the first two were not nearly as acclaimed as they expected them to be, so they're saying, "Ok, guys. This is really where we get it right, all the rest was just us fucking...

"You will father children named Lannister." Burn. And yes, Dinklage really outdid himself. Damn.

My thoughts exactly. I'd like to think that's not a detail I happened to gloss over...but I guess it could have been. I'm alright with the show going in completely its own direction, but I'd really like to know whether that is really what they're doing or if they're actually staying true to...

I wish Natalie Dormer would make a habit of sneaking into my bedroom regularly. If she can slip by the kingsguard, surely she can do something about my wife. *ahem* This episode really had me questioning my memory of the books, but I guess it really did go off the rails. Didanythingthat...

I liked the movie, but I was left with a similar feeling as when I watched TTT for the first time. There was some clunky editing, lots of book scenes missing, not nearly enough intimate character moments, and lots of material that was either stretched out from the book or entirely invented...