BOX OFFICE: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Takes $8.8M At Midnight Showings

MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE!

I need to see this. Right meow!

This movie was incredibly disappointing. As a huge fan of the book I was disgusted at how many liberties they took and unneccessary crap they put in. Definitely should have just made 2 movies but of course they wanted more money.

Didn't hate it for the same reasons I hated Iron Man 3 though. Iron man 3 was a terrbile movie overall, Hobbit was just a poor adaptation and generic fantasy movie that can be enjoyed if you haven't read the book.

If you read the book then there's alot of WTF moments.

Good, but not great movie. The action, humor, score, and action were all good, but the CGI really turned me off. Smaug, on the other hand, looked fantastic! Also, the cameos by Jackson, Colbert, and especially Gimli were nice. The barrels scene was so awesome! 3.75 out of 5 stars.

@RBS4ZPK9 The necromancer parts didn't bother me and I liked the inclusion of legolas. The first 30 minutes was really good IMO.

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It was how the whole movie was just dumbed down to audiences and the unneccessary inclusion of orcs during the barrells scene, and elves and orcs fighting in laketown, Tauriel and Fili romance (WTF), battle with Smaug in the mountain, etc.

I loved in the book how when we first meet Beorn we don't know hes a shap shifter and they Bilbo figures it out. In the movie its just flat out told to us. I also like how Bilbo tricks Smaug in to leaving the mountain, but in this there has to be an elaborate battle that defies physics (another thing that isnt consistent with LOTR is the physics).

And then Bard was misportrayed. I don't think they should have given him a family. He always came across as a loner in the book.

I did like the casting of Bard, Thranduil, and Smaug looked and sounded incredible. But the story was severely lacking and felt like they were just looking for crap to throw in to extend the movie.

Should have ended it with Smaug destroying Laketown too. That was a huge mistake cause it would have made for a great ending to a film called "Desolation of Smaug"

Movie of 2013 IMO.

I get off work early so I'm going to a matinee.
I refuse to see this with the unwashed masses.

Ok, seriously...[frick] the ads on this website. I'm tired of the stupid sleeper ads that dont turn on for a few minutes, and then I hear from across my house the [frick]ing stupid ass cough medicine ads blasting from my room. Don't get me started on the [frick]ing ones that pop up from the bottom of the screen and blind you're vision of what you're reading.

I don't mind ads that don't interfere with my ability to navigate through the website.

I'll send you the Macallan, yoss.

Haha, bless your heart, brother. Wrap 'er up. I'll use my teeth to get it all off.