The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012 "From the smallest beginnings come the greatest legends."
7.8| 2h49m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 14 December 2012 Released
Producted By: WingNut Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://www.thehobbit.com/
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Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

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Peter Jackson

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
miguelbgood I was very excited to see this after considering The Lord of the Rings a resounding success, one of my favorite series of movies of all time!But when I found out it was going to be a trilogy of movies, I thought "Why are they making 3 movies out of a very short introductory book to the Trilogy?"Why, indeed?Basically they RUINED it by making it 3 movies. The first one is boring, the 2nd one is more boring and the 3rd one I didn't even care to see.They took a successful idea (being faithful to Tolkien's books!) and turned it on its head and decided to invent all kinds of scenes that never existed, and make a really great short book into a way-overlong trilogy of movies!DUMB IDEA!If you are a kid who just likes Hobbit stuff you *might* like this. If you're an adult who loves Tolkien's books, you are almost surely going to dislike it. My advice: Skip this one and go back and re-watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy again! Or better yet, spend your time reading the books, starting with The Hobbit!
Ziya Aliyev I think like everybody I watched the triology hoping to get the same affection as Lord of the Rings but did I get it: NO Because: the biggest problem is that it does not create the feeling that you are in the movie. I watched it as a cartoon. Another problem is that Gandalf does not have the control, even Aragorn in Lord of the Rings could not get before the role of Gandalf Scenes were created for the sake of the filling any gap, forexample in one scene suddenly an elf on the horse appears before Legolas summoning him to their country. Well at least they have showed him coming on the road in the far away camera before appearing. Another problem was composing, the music stole away the seriousness of the movie turning it into combination of the scenes where the outcomes were predictable. In the end, after watching the triology I had to check the director to see if he was the same Peter of Lord of the Rings.
swithinobirii 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
kaloyankirow A story line from a book always makes a good movie. Like LOTR this trilogy tops the fantasy genre like no other movies can. I imagine how difficult will be to explain to my children what a quality cinema looked like and how they'll argue with me about that. I believe this trilogy is one of the last that count as "cinema"