Happy Trailers - The Next Hobbit-Related Waste Of Time

I like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not every moment of it. I don't mind the deviations from the books. I do mind scenes that add nothing to the story or, in the case of the final film and the resolution of the Battle of Minas Tirith, makes me wonder if Peter Jackson even knows how to tell a dramatic story. Resorting to a Deus ex machina is never a good idea. Problems aside, these three films still make up a fun fantasy epic.

The Hobbit? Not so much. The Desolation of Smaug was terrible, an exercise in bloated storytelling and self-indulgence. Jackson's desire to turn a children's story into some kind of action/drama epic was a mistake. His instability to create action scenes that don't look like they were pulled from a video game, the moronic love story, the lack of coherent characters...just a terrible waste of money and effort on the part of the creative team and of money and time for the viewers.

The Battle of Five Armies looks like more of the same. Video game physics. Action scenes turned up to eleven. Melodramatics. Unneeded efforts to hammer it home that this story takes place before LOTR. It just looks bad. But, your mileage may be different. Check out the trailer below. If you enjoy it, and liked the other Hobbit films, no judgement here. I mean, I love It! The Terror from Beyond Space! in which the costume head of the titular monster was too small, so the stunt man's chin is sticking out of the mouth and made up to look like a tongue, giving the impression of an alien giving his victims a raspberry, so I have no right to tell people their taste is...oh, whatever. If you like the Hobbit films, you're on crack. You hear me! Crack!!!!!