The Hobbit: An unexpected journey.
Me too. Someone needs to stand up to Peter Jackson and tell him that it isn't big and it isn't clever. OK?
It has the cinematic feel of a child being left the keys to the CGI sweetie shop and no self restraint, and an editor without the balls to cut the superfluous bits or avoid primal screaming the 'cinematic effects' (hint: adding fake motion blur to films is bad enough, adding it to 3D films is a crime for which having your eyes gouged out with a blunt red hot spoon would be the appropriate punishment). Half an hour too long (and easy to see where it could be cut), flows as smoothly as a rusted chain and some of the lighting choices are just wierd (check out Gandalf almost all the way through). Classic bits of the story that would have been great cinema and suspense were replaced by gratuitous brawl melees.
It does bring in some of the backstory from the Silmarillion on Middle Earth and some understandable license is taken, but some is ridiculous, adds nothing and should be cut.
Highlights:
Andy Serkis, Ian Mckellan and Cate Blanchett are every bit as good as you would expect.
