Last night I watched the second Hobbit movie.
Things I liked:
- The way Smaug was portrayed - character design, voice acting, everything was perfect.
- Getting to see some more of what was going on in Dol Guldur.
Things I didn’t like:
- The entire rest of the movie.
Seriously, what a screw-up that movie was. They glossed over all the actual scenes from the original book (the spiders and the dwarves’ imprisonment by Thranduil? Maybe ten minutes screen time total) and focused so heavily on all the extra bullshit storylines and characters they made up or crowbarred in (who is Tauriel? Why is Legolas here? Why is Laketown suddenly Mos Eisley 1.0?).
That, plus their insistence to fill the story with as much pointless comedy as they could squeeze in just ruined the entire movie. I don’t even want to see the third movie now except to see how much screen time Smaug gets before he dies.