Hallo, fellow movie-goers!
My fiancé and I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last night. When I began watching the Hobbit trilogy I had MANY reservations. First of all, the Hobbit series has a tough act to follow: the Lord of the Rings, which is — in my opinion — the best trilogy to ever be filmed, a veritable modern-day masterpiece. Second of all, as with any book I have read that is made into a movie, I go in knowing the movie can almost never live up to or surpass the book. There is a third and a fourth and a fifth of all, but why bother you with more needless backstory? We need to get to the gist, the main question, which is:
How does The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug rate as a movie?
The rest of the movie review is on my personal blog at:
http://authormarkstone.com/Blog.aspx