My personal thoughts on An Unexpected Journey.
I bought it on the BD combo pack, which meant I expected I'd watch it over and over. Generally I don't buy BD movies these days unless that's the case. I managed to miss it in theaters, which I regret.
But, I didn't. I watched it once on BD, and I did it with quite a few breaks and I actually kind of struggled to get through it, and I really should have just watched in an IMAX theater once, after which I would have been fine with never seeing it again until the next chapter came out.
For the record, I loved the novel; it was one of my favorite children's books as a boy, so it's not the material or the characters, or the plot or anything else. I still enjoy the Rankin animated film from 1977. It clocked in at 78 minutes. It just felt so drawn out that I think the main people who would enjoy the 169 minute film would be the super Tolkien fans who would literally live in Middle Earth if they could and simply can't get enough of LoTR.
And of course, as it was mentioned, with all the huge build up over the new cinematic version of Smaug (teasers were literally out there for years), all we got were more teasers. Granted, Smaug doesn't show up until the final third of the novel, but it is annoying to presumably have to wait until the third film for everyone to see what they really want to see.
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