Comment Re:Such a Waste (Score 5, Insightful) 156
What's so horrible about The Hobbit?
The book? Nothing. It's a decent story. I like it.
But if you're talking about the movie trilogy then there's a problem. It isn't "The Hobbit". It's a movie that wants to be "tolkienesque" and uses names and scenes that Tolkien had used in his stories. The same as the "I, Robot" movie was with Asimov's stories.
Look at the page count in The Lord of the Rings. Then compare it to the page count in The Hobbit.
Now compare the run time of the movies. Either LoTR got butchered or The Hobbit was puffed up with standard Hollywood hero crap.
I'm skipping it because I do not want ANOTHER generic Hollywood cliche driven green-screen-spectacle-fest.