Wow did I not like The Hobbit.
I've gone off the LOTR films a bit over time(like down from 9/10 to 7/10), rewatching them and realising how irritating some bits are, but the Hobbit felt cheap, not impressed with the cast, the CGI is almost always awful, the story has been mangled and all the action sequences are pretty terrible.
The overly kiddy/stupid feel to so much of it, and the god awful music, it was rather bland and boring in the first film, then it was in three films and now its like "oh, its that piece of music, I now know EXACTLY what is about to happen", the kinda upbeat one, another inspiring tale about the spirit of hobbits or mankind is about to commence, etc, etc. The music is so predictable it gives away whats about to happen, its just plainly completely lazy to reuse every piece of music. For a huge film as a follow up trilogy(ridiculous in and of itself) to a huge trilogy, do we need the same 3 pieces of music repeated over and over after being subjected to that for not far off 9 hours across the previous trilogy, couldn't come up with some new music and better scoring which involves not repeating 3 different short pieces over and over again, happy scene, dangerous scene, triumphant win scene..... it was painfully lazy.
To me the Hobbit came across as a very cheap, poorly put together cash in movie(even if it wasn't cheap, I don't have a clue). The decade old quality greenscreen all over the place, but most of all, it was the woefully poorly written action sequences.
Thorin was wooden and rubbish, Freeman was decent enough. Just overall very disappointed.
