Its ironic that the overall message of The Hobbit was a warning about greed and the whole reason The Hobbit movies were made was because of greed.

As much as Desolation Of Smaug annoyed me, the line "Papa, there are dwarves coming out of our toilet. Will they bring us luck?" absolutely killed me.

"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread"
-The Hobbit

It pissed me off how they kept ALL THE ALFRED SCENES in Battle of the Five Armies but REMOVED the Thorin’s funeral scene from the standard cut and only left in the extended. It couldve hit hard to see that in theaters when I was 8 but no they made Thorin’s death feel like nothing in the movies and I was already annoyed with that Alfred dude even as a kid I was like “this dude isn’t funny”

What's sad is Richard Armitage, the guy who plays Thorin, was SO EXCITED to be a dwarf! He grew out a big bushy beard. He learned the dwarf language. He learned the entire history of the character...

Then he showed up for filming and they shaved his beard and told him they wanted Thorin to be attractive and subdued and he was so disappointed 😢

There was a cut scene in Battle of the Five Armies, where Gandalf scolds Thranduil for prioritizing the shiny necklace over his son. The scene revealed that the necklace belonged to Thranduil's wife, who died fighting the forces of Anmar a long time ago, and the necklace was recovered by Dwarves later. That scene was like 20 seconds long, yet it revealed Thranduil's motivation for starting a war with the Dwarves. But nope, it got cut, because we needed more scenes with Alfred?

Laughing about the phrase “green prison” then becoming somber over seeing Ian McKellen break down is probably the biggest case of emotional whiplash I’ve experienced.

Don't forget: In The Lord of the Rings, they left out things like Tom Bombadil because he didn't do anything to advance the plot. But then in The Hobbit there's a romance between an Elf and a Dwarf, which doesn't do anything for the plot either. To me, that's pure hypocrisy.

I would give anything to live in the universe where The Hobbit was one single 2 hour movie directed by Del Toro

I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact they got Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, and Ian McKellen into a green room together to pretend to hit ghosts with sticks and give one liners

Love or hate this trilogy, I’m glad everyone can basically agree that Martin Freeman is like, THE perfect casting for Bilbo. Like one of the best casting choices in history if you ask me

I think its really funny how Luke Evans lookms more like orlando Bloom than orlando bloom does

I also read the Hobbit. My favourite fun fact is that in the books, in the final battle, Bilbo just trips and hits his head on a rock with the ring on, sleeping throu the entire battle. I find that hilarious.

Seeing Ian McKellen having a break down over just being in a green screen ( most likely hours / days of shooting)  and feeling " distressed" over the movie is heart breaking.
WB just wanted money so they hurt the actors, franchise and fan base for greed.

Tellin me Frodo was proofreading Bilbo's book, met Legolas, and didn't immediately go "Oh my god it's that guy who 360 noscopes orcs"

Cumberbatch as Smaug is a chilling masterpiece

The pictures and footage of Peter Jackson wandering around the sets with his head in his hands are pretty heartbreaking.
It's too bad WB seemed intent on not only milking as much money as they could from it but also used it like a technical demo.

I love that Evangeline Lilly was essentially promised there wouldn’t be a love triangle, only to find out that was the only reason her character was in the movie.

Honestly the worst part is how perfect the cast is. They did so well with what they had, they all had great chemistry with each other and so likeable but the big guys in charge kept trying to control everything and screwing it up

35:40 The entire theater started laughing hysterically