The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

It is a fact that Tolkien is the father of modern fantasy literature, through his marvelous work he practically redesigned the gender and served as an example for the entire author community who came after to follow. When I first heard about this movie I was really skeptical, as the original story was a really childish tale and I thought they would not be able to make the feeling of the original "Lord of the Rings" get out of me. But...As soon as the movie started I found myself again as a small child discovering the wonderful universe of books together with the crown jewel called Middle Earth. Even with the adaptations so the movie was more mature were a bit over in some cases, as soon as you hear the poems from the book singed by the dwarfs on a sad tone it is impossible to judge then bad. The plot flows so well that is can even be seen before than the original franchise by a stranger to the series without losing meaning, they will only lose some really god references. But without a doubt the biggest point of the movie is the fact that is another trilogy, because it shows to the fans that the dream of Tolkien is still alive.

The great adventure begins..My opinion about the movie; +The atmosphere is impressive -The wolves could be more impressive +Dialogues are beautiful +The story in general is fluent

First off in case you don't know lotr and hobbit are very different stories and shouldn't be compared . lotr is a darker story, about a hobbit that needs to destroyed an evil ring created by great evil. Meanwhile in the hobbit , a hobbit goes on an epic adventure with a bunch of dwarves and a wizard to kill a dragon and take back the dwarves' treasure. Everyone that's is comparing the genre of the hobbit to lotr needs to stop NOW! The hobbit is a kid book for goodness sake and lotr is aimed for older people.Anyway let's get straight down to business. The movies had a great plot and amazing action scenes though had cgi problems.The movie was slow paced since it is the first movie of the trilogy and the first movie is always slow like star wars a new hope,lotr the fellowship of the ring and more.Adding characters like Radagast was pretty unnecessary,few scenes weren't that good but the Gollum scene was scaring and intense when he finds out that Bilbo stole his ring.The orcs look pretty meh... should had used real people dressing up as orcs.the action scenes were just fantastic. the best action scene was when throin was fighting azog ,gave me goosebumps a little bit.great character development with Bilbo though It may not show much since it is just the beginning of the hobbit series and you don't want him a lot of character development too early or else that would make the movie a bit rushed. Plus how thorin in the beginning of the movie he doesn't trust Bilbo at all and thinks he worthless and in the end he admits he's wrong is pretty good character development. We also get know his backstory .overall I give the hobbit a 7/10 would be higher it cgi hadn't been obvious pros: amazing actions scene(most of them) meeting Bilbo baggins scene,great character development,cons:cgi,unnecessary characters,awful scenes

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey starts off with a compelling story and mesmerizing settings as we get to go back to the wondrous place of Middle-Earth. Being a longtime fan of both the Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit movies and books I was one of the first on getting tickets to see the movie on premiere night. From the very start of the opening monologue by the amazing actor Sir Ian Holm I felt the same feelings of magic, adventure, wonder and excitement just as I had done 11 years earlier when I saw Fellowship of the ring. Once again one of the strongest compartments is the amazing casting, as it feels that they really found the perfect guy in every role to play the character. Even though the movie does not follow the book strictly in my opinion this does not necessarily make it bad. For what many reviewers seem to forget is that the medium of film and book is very different, and sometimes changes need to be made for it to work on the big screen. For all fantasy lovers and fans of the world that J.R.R Tolkien created this is a movie that cannot be missed.8/10 Very Good!