Calling it mediocre is being generous to be honest. The stupid relationships, CGI that you can tell from a mile away, cheesy scenes etc. etc. I thought the first film was pretty good save for a few scenes and had high hopes for the second one but it was one of the biggest dissappoinments ever. I'd rather read the book for the fifth time rather than seeing the film in cinema.

Ow the other 2 wasted hours of my life.. Especially the second one..is this one gonna drag on for 3 hours? I can't handle that.. The entire hobbit should have been 2 x two hour movies.. Are maybe 1x 3 hours..

You are right, the hobbit ends when they defeat the dragon, however this story shamefully scrapped from apendix writings that tolkien wrote at the back of The Return Of The King

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Appendices

He wrote them to fill plotholes for future books (Silmarillions) which he didn't finish but his son did.

because when he wrote the hobbit he wasn't planning on expanding it to the Lord Of The Rings, and when he wrote lord of the rings he went back to the hobbit and added a lot of things to it (it was a short story he wrote for his children) .

Peter Jackson just scrapped everything remaining and stretched it out, as a huge fan of Tolkien , I DON'T MIND because Peter makes some of the best movies ever, its better than this generic piece of crap

Ugh....I wouldn't be mad if they stayed at least a little bit close to the book...but this is just too much.

I liked the films, but this is one thing I can certainly agree with.

In Lord of the Rings, the orcs and other monsters and the set pieces looked so amazing. Everything looked real. In the Hobbit films however, you can indeed clearly see they're all CGI. The troll-king, Bolg and Azog, they're all quite underwhelming when viewed against Lurtz from Fellowship of the Ring.

I do hate it in general though, actors in make-up just beat CGI any day.

Yea it is generous, as there were several acking parts, like the nonsense romance between Tauriel and Kili, as well as that molten gold/statue scene that made Smaug look dumb (he is supposed to be so much more). Many of the action scenes were fun, but did they really have to make the Orcs (and Legolas) appear everywhere for that?

Well, in the end I felt decently entertained though - not spending 20-30€ to watch it in the cinema helped there.

The last one was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The one before that IS the worst movie I have ever seen. Don't know what to think of this one, at least the CGI looks like something from this decade.

Huh, apparently VGChartz isn't the place to talk about actual games or The Hobbit films.

The Lord of the Rings was amazing in that regard indeed. I guess the production costs are lower this way. In some of the scenes such as the ones you mentioned, they look like they come straight out of a cartoon.

Don't get me started on the romance between those two, I was embarassed while watching those scenes. Just horrible. It does not happen in the book, and It is directly against everything written in the book. What were they thinking I have no idea.

One of the reasons I hated it was I watched in an expensive cinema :), but 20-30€ o.O? For that I'd hunt down Peter Jackson myself.