Quote Originally Posted by HopsnBarley28 View Post
My son said that, while he enjoyed the special effects, it was basically 2 hours of stretching. The story of The Hobbit, even if you include the extras from the Silmarillion, is not sufficient to really need three 150 minute movies.
Agree. How can you take one book that is shorter than the other three and make three movies, meanwhile having only made one movie per each book. Totally seemed stretched to me as well with limited battle scenes. I expect the next one to be very enjoyable though. Would give this one a 6.