Quote Originally Posted by jackvance View Post
Watched The Hobbit a few days ago. A great watch but my main problem was that you had no affinity with many of the dwarves, the dwarven king also looked too human and Bilbo coulda been cast been better (just compare him with the convincing hobbits from LOTR) - there's 2 more parts in which he can redeem himself to me though. But, once they reached the Goblin King and everything that followed, that was just super.
Since Kingnat started quoting old Hobbit posts I'll do the same. I watched the Hobbit the other night and really wasn't impressed at all. It took nearly an hour to get things rolling with nothing really being established in that first bit and some scenes that I assume were thrown in there because they look cool in 3d (see: ridiculous circus scene in Bilbo's residence).

A lot of the CGI was too much and looked faulty. I get a movie like this obviously needs to rely heavily on CGI but I compare it to any of the LOTR movies and it's much worse. The villains looked too 'costumey' a lot of the time too. I don't know if it was poor CGI or poor makeup at fault there but I found myself distracted by it. The Goblin king's chin looked like stretched pixels as well.

Pretty much everything about Radagast bugged me, he seemed like a pointless addition to the story. Especially his whole, "I have a fast sled of rabbits so let me distract the orcs," then he proceeds to just go around the group in circles essentially contributing nothing at all.

I did like the riddle battle with Golumn, they did that scene well. I also liked it when Bilbo kills the orc about to execute Thorin, it was cool to watch and I don't know why. Probably because it was an exciting but believable attack coming from his character. But then Thorin's speech/hug at the end made me mad at the movie again.

Great looking cinematography and everything you would expect from the movie though. I probably rate it 6/10 and I was expecting to like it a lot more since I enjoyed the middle earth books when I was younger and though the LOTR trilogy was great.