The thing I hate most about book adaptations are when they cut your favorite part of a book for the sake of pacing or time. Here in the Hobbit movies there is no fear of that as we took what should have been a little less than 4 hour movie and made it 12 hours long. The original cartoon did this tale in under 3 hours and was completely faithful. It omitted the Grizzly wizard and I believe one other scene from the book. Here and with the other movies we add whatever Peter Jackson wanted to keep out more cash. Most of the action scenes are frankly more cartoony than the cartoon. The love story is pointless and as we have learned with Game of Thrones,when you vere from the source material the end product suffers. There is a fan online that cut the 3 films down to one movie and it's so much better than sitting through all the extra crap. Most of which is pointless, emotionally blah, and a waste. I love the Lord of the Rings films but after watching each of the Hobbit films once I have zero desire to ever do so again.
