Watched this in 2D, 24FPS and loved it!

What a great movie much better then I expected!

Don't like it, saw the 24fps 2D version, it have almost nothing in common with the book and the CG are a bit poor in some landscapes (at least at the begining), the movie entertains for sure but I expected more. I'll wait for the blurays to see the other 2.

Pros: * Landscape imagery * Camera, FX and CGI (for the most part) * Costumes and stage design, camera * Martin Freeman and most other actors perform solidly * The background information is perhaps interesting to some of the LoR fans out there. Negative: * Runtime (way too long) * Music (that's a dumb Hollywood standard orchestra score full of bombast that tries to cover for the dull story * The jokes (some scenes are obviously meant to be funny but they're just silly and childish) * The story: it's really dull and repetitive. Just like LoR 1, 2 and 3 btw (of which I'm not particularly fond either). It's the same old same old. In a nutshell: motley crew travel the world and master several adventures in between. Characters are super one-dimensional. * The end. There's no end. It just stops at a random point and you're supposed to watch the second part. There's not even a cliffhanger. It just tells you that they approach the mountain and that the dragon is still there (I'd have figured that out all by myself). Gosh, I get the appeal of a trilogy, but you can't just transform every story into a trilogy just because you like the concept (or the fact that you have discovered a money making machine).