I really disliked it. I mean...I was engaged enough while it was happening but have zero desire to watch it again, nor the others. Quite the opposite experience from LotR.

See. That's really me.

I watched the first Hobbit via amazon, much after the fact. Skipped the second one and had no desire to see this one, outside being up to date with the pals.

Totally different experience from LOTR, of which, I a can't get enough.

Yeah, I enjoyed it well enough in the moment, though I spent a lot of time laughing at how silly a lot of the OTT battle scenes were. But (apart from being curious about how much it could be improved if you lopped off 3/4 of the running time) I have no real desire to sit through any of them again.

...I do kinda want to haul out my LOTR DVDs, though.

I just finished a rewatch of LOTR, straight through, with commentaries, and all the documentaries. It was a ritual for Hubby and me. I should get Hobbit 2, just for the commentary, because I loved what the Dwarves were doing. Maybe I'll just wait for the extended Hobbit 3 DVD.

I've enjoyed all three Hobbit movies, partly because I saw them with my BFF, who is a huge Tolkien fan. She loved them, was happy with most of the changes Jackson made, and explained all the stuff to me that I didn't understand. I was invested; I cared about almost all the characters. Knowing how Bilbo's story ends made this part of his story all the more poignant. It wasn't a perfect movie - or trilogy - by any means, but I enjoyed it all. I doubt I'll watch it again by myself, but BFF and I will sit down one weekend and have a marathon of The Hobbit and LOTR and that will be amazing, though.

I saw Hobbit 1 and loved Bilbo. He just does a great job. I didn't see Hobbit 2 although my family rented it, and none of us has seen Hobbit 3 (though they will probably eventually rent it.)

I liked The Hobbit movies well enough. I liked LotR far better, but I think that The Hobbit, viewed apart from LotR, holds up as a good set of movies

"everyone fights everyone else for an hour or more" doesn't really do much for me as a plot.

Fun fact - this entire 2.5 hour movie takes up about 4 minutes of screentime in the old animated Hobbit.

I enjoyed it enough to see it twice in theaters (for free, though), but it was pretty terrible as a standalone movie. (And as the end of a trilogy, it's too long.)

That said, I thought the ad for the Hobbit BOFA videogame White Council fight scene with Sauron was pretty fun to watch. The Thorin/Azog fight on the ice kicked all kinds of ridiculous badly plotted ass. Every moment Lee Pace and his war elk were onscreen was pure comedy GOLD. (If PJ wants to make his next project a web series spinoff about the adventures of young Thranduil and his pal the elk...I would watch it.)

Martin Freeman was great, as he is in everything he does, ever.

I'm almost at the end of reading the book out loud to Dylan (Bilbo just stole the golden cup from Smaug) so I've been in the mood to rewatch the whole trilogy now that I have the original fresh in my mind again.

I really enjoyed Martin Freeman's performance, and liked Bilbo much better than Frodo (as was true with the books). So I'm somewhat bummed that Thorin and Bard somehow became the main characters of his story.

That said, I thought the ad for the Hobbit BOFA videogame White Council fight scene with Sauron was pretty fun to watch.

Seriously, that bit with Sauron arranging the ringwraiths around him looked just like a videogame selection menu to me. Could they have brought it over directly from the game?

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