I've seen the movie yesterday, at HFR 3D.

My thoughts

- I still hate HFR and I still hate 3D, but the combination of them looks "too real", it completely ruins the cinematic experience for me. However I hated the first two movies in HFR and liked them when I've seen them on BD with 2D/24fps, so I hope my home experience will be again much better.

- everybody complains about the deviations from the book - I've read the book once, in the time the first LOTR came out, and I don't remember ANYTHING from the movie to be in the book, I don't know if it's because my memory sucks or because they simply made ship up or both

- too much CGI. The LOTR trilogy looked so brilliant because it used all cinematic tricks available, Hobbit uses CGI EVERYWHERE. Everything looks fake, the monsters look fake, the CG actors look fake, the environments - you can clearly distinguish what's a real set, what's a real New Zealand location and what's CG, which is a BAD thing. I miss the wonderful bigatures :-( And why are the orcs CG? They looked so great in LOTR and so fake in the Hobbit movies :-( But at least Azog looks more real in this movie than he did in the last two.

- the fight scenes were HORRIBLE. Disgustingly bad. For the first time in the "LOTR cinematic universe" the choreographed fights LOOK choreographed. Gone are the wonderfully brutal fights from the previous movies, they were now replaced by Star Wars prequel - styled ballet numbers. When the dwarfs were figting, you could even see that they're waiting till their stuntman enemy gets to the correct position before they used their weapons :(

- the movie was BOOOORING. I don't understand how is it possible, I have never ever seen a boring Jackson movie. I almost fell asleep.