Suck it Haters! Say what you want, but this monster of a franchise does make the cash... And i for one Loved The Hobbit!!!

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this really made a billion dollars

I loved this movie on the first watch and didn't understand what everybody was whining about.

Then, I sat down to watch it a second time the next week and oh god oh god why.

The movie is okay, I ultimately do like, but man does it drag. You notice these things after knowing what to expect.

I didn't mind the Azog storyline or Radagast, but all the time spent in the shire, all the time spent in Rivendall, agh it was too much on second watch.

Yeah, it's a legendary book - I mean most kids read it in school during elementary school. This is very expected, regardless of quality.

Les Miserables should be jumping lightyears past the Hobbit though - if it weren't for Russell Crowe.

Caricature? How am I so? Maybe these are just my opinions. Maybe I would prefer someone other than Jackson to do Hobbit, OK?

most underrated movie of 2012,miles better than the 65% rotten tomatoes score.

@ckal I completely agree. There's also no reason why Radagast (and Azog, for that matter) should have been in the movie in the 1st place. Completely pointless, and don't even start with his idiotic bunny sled. WAY too many action scenes that were there just for the sake of action. Fair to say that my expectations are a lot lower for the next two movies.

I saw it again today. Epic.

Anyone who passes off statistics as being fact needs to take a statistics course, especially when those statistics are based on critics' opinions. 256 critics out of millions of viewers? ;-)

Most of the negative reviews by the critics I read were based on the FPS rate, which I had no challenge with and actually thought added to the film. To rate the film low based mainly on that is kind of a joke. My opinion, not necessarily a fact, just like their opinion, but not necessarily a fact. 84% of the public liked it better than a number of the films you posted.

on opening night i checked rt & imdb for the reviews and ratings, saw it was 66%, told myself the critics don't know shit. 3 hours later i walked out [frick]ing angry as a goddamn storm brewed on the horizon, it was like the weather knew how pissed i was. and don't get me started on the greatest cock tease known to man AKA smaug opening his eye.

Jackson [frick]ed up by hyping up hobbit as a lotr equivalent, it's not, it's a [frick]ing childrens book but my blind fanboy loyalty told me jackson would do the impossible and make the hobbit as "serious" as lotr. he failed.

Don't get me wrong it's a good [frick]ing movie, i give it a "C+" or "B" when i am really drunk, but as a lotr successor, it [frick]ing disappointed, as a hobbit adaptation, it simply [frick]ing hurt. Desolation of Smaug had better be [frick]ing good.

This site has been infected with whingy morons, someone actually said that Two Towers is the worst LOTR. What has this site come to?

@SotoJuiceMan - need to get your facts straight. The clip with Thanos in the Avengers was midway through the end credits. The "tease" as you call it with Smaug actually was the last scene of the movie before the end credits began.

Peter Jackson didn't say he didn't want to do the Hobbit, he just couldn't devote all the time to it as he was planning to develop Naiomi Noviks "Temeraire" which he aquired the rights to back in 2006. He signed on as Producer and trusted G.Tel Toro to do the directors duties till MGM went bankrupt and G.Del Toro had to move on to his other scheduled commitments. The time it took to save MGM meant that Peter decided to push back his plans and do it himself as Del Toro was his only choice to take the reigns of the Hobbit.

The reason Halo wasn't made is due to it needing to find a distributor, films don't get made out of Directors own pockets for crying out loud. They get made by Studio's who in most cases pay for distribution. The Hobbit was a joint venture with W.B and MGM who held the production rights. Halo will also be a joint venture with Microsoft, Dreamworks and whoever they make a deal with to deliver distribution.

As for the Hobbit being made into three movies, well anyone who has read all that Tolkien wrote surrounding the Hobbit doesn't need convincing that the movie needs three films. For the rest of you like yourself however well you need to understand he's not just adapting a book, he's adapting a time-line. The Hobbit as a book is written from one persons perspective of events, Bilbo's! It's written as a childrens book and although it has lots of events, it has lots of inexplicable disappearances by Gandalf and very light on dramatization. When Tolkien decided he wanted to make it more serious the publishers wouldn't let him so he rewrote sections of it to fall into line with Lord of the Rings which he originally started as a rewrite of the Hobbit and then took shape as The Hobbit part 2 before finally becoming the three books we know now. He had so much more he couldn't fit into the narrative of LOTR that he put some in the appendixes of Return of the King but he died before he could finish dramatising The Silmarillion and fitting the rest in there too. His so Christopher released most of his works in The silmarillon and Unfinished Tales, both of which most people never bothered to read. Jackson did!

So to those who think the Hobbit is just a single book being beefed up to three movies simply for a basic cash-cow, there's never going to be a way of making them understand that Tolkien wanted more for that little kids book and that's why he wrote more for the events surrounding it in Middle Earth hence Jackson's desire to take the one chance he'll ever get in his life to deliver as much of that narrative on screen to fit in with the greater vision of the Middle Earth movies he's delivered so far.

So let's face it, The Hobbit disappointed YOU, not US, $920 million and rising is not a disappointment! I've seen it 5 times and going again a.s.a.p.

I wasn't disappointed in the film, so if some of you were, that is your opinion. I am very glad they are doing three films because they are tackling a major battle in each, which is enough to me to warrant making it into three films. Different strokes.

@Levitkuz...because you (and a minority of RT critics) didn't like Hobbit doesn't make your statement a"fact." So not only are you a hypocrite, but you're also not as funny as you think you are...and that's a fact!

@levitikuz...fact: you're a nutter. Find another hobby (other than CBM). Meet a girl. Learn to enjoy life!

@SotoJuiceMan...I agree, but my wife probably wouldn't ;D

@SotoJuiceMan I was referring to that TASM editorial where you ranted for 5 straight pages. And fair enough ill admit I was in the wrong much like facade. And I'm not 18 I'm 23, the 94 on my username is a tribute to my younger brother, who was born in 1994 and died at birth.