Peter Jackson knows how to turn a story like this into a Middle Earth adventure. It was all of that. However, the story rather annoyingly deviates from the book. First, the movie is excessively filled with monsters and battles ... once the long and dragging first third of the movie gets off the ground, Bilbo Baggins and his band of adventurers encounter one goblin or orc or troll after another, requiring LOTS of sword play, battling, etc. It seemed every 10 minutes, there was another CGI group of villains to fight. One fight scene lasted at least 20 minutes.
After a bit, you really got tired of it all and wished the scriptwriters did not have to insert so much stupid violence into a story that Tolkien did not write into his story.
That said, there is nothing the movie industry cannot depict now. CGI has gotten so good that you simply cannot tell it is in use. The Hobbit is probably 80% CGI and still, you can believe these characters are really walking through middle Earth.
Go see it if you don't mind a lot of violence and battles. Skip it and wait for it on DVD if you'd prefer a more purist rendition of the book.
After a bit, you really got tired of it all and wished the scriptwriters did not have to insert so much stupid violence into a story that Tolkien did not write into his story.
That said, there is nothing the movie industry cannot depict now. CGI has gotten so good that you simply cannot tell it is in use. The Hobbit is probably 80% CGI and still, you can believe these characters are really walking through middle Earth.
Go see it if you don't mind a lot of violence and battles. Skip it and wait for it on DVD if you'd prefer a more purist rendition of the book.
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