I finally caught the final episode of the Hobbit trilogy. What a pile of arse. I always had my doubts about Jackson turning a small childrenās book into a three film epic. The first two films felt overlong, sure. This one, despite only being 2 and a half hours long, seemed the worst to me. It seems to suffer from having loads going on in some areas, and very little in others. For two thirds of the film, Thorin is just bonkers for the gold and doesnāt want to know about fighting, etc. For a series called the Hobbit, Bilbo is not in it much, mostly relegated to telling Thorin heās being a nob or telling Thorin that orcs are on the way. He does have a big dilemma for much of the film, but even so, really doesnāt feel like his adventure at this point, which makes the end all the more baffling.
People moaned about the multiple endings of LotR. Personally, I felt it was the only way to do justice to all of the characters the film spends time on. By necessity, The Hobbit has to spend time on all of these other characters, but only really provides any closure to Bilboās story, and that is fairly shit. Jackson goes out of his way to link the films, so the last thing you see is Ian Holmās depiction of the same character answering the door to Gandalf.
Even the small book managed to tell us that Bard becomes the King of Dale, or that Dain becomes the new King Under The Mountain. These people are already in the film, FFS. Disappointed. Rant over.