The Hobbit

[Aaron]

I saw the Hobbit last week and it was... pretty good. Definitely entertaining. As one would expect from a three-hour movie that only covers the first third of a relatively short book, the pace was a tad glacial at times, but that didn't bother me. What did bother me was that Jackson has conjured a few of his own plot threads from out of thin air, presumably to lend cohesion to what is honestly a rather fragmented story in the beginning. Still, I would rather have had a single, well-paced, three-hour movie that covered the whole book and demanded no made-up plot threads to placate the Tolkien-muggles, but... oh well. I am still looking forward to the next two movies!

I did not see the movie in 48fps, so I will definitely be doing that before it ends its run.