Thoughts on The Hobbit ~SPOILERS~

The Plus Side ~SPOILERS~

Thorin:
Thorin pretty much lived up to my expectations.

He shows a very emotionless face to his company but it a couple of scenes you can see his great sadness over losing his home and family. He is quick to judge and  see a lack of courage (especially in Bilbo). He is embittered toward the elves for abandoning his people to exile and yet he (if not exactly forgiving them) agrees to Elrond's help in deciphering Thrain II's Map.
As the movie progresses Thorin begins to see that great courage can come from small people. In the end when Bilbo saves his life, Thorin apologizes for doubting him.
I am going to enjoy seeing how Thorin's character grows throughout the rest of the movies.    

Eagles:
The eagles where magnificent. I would have to say that some of the flying shots with them were the best in the movie.

The over all youngness of everyone:
I was very impressed with how they where able to make every one look younger then the LotR. 

Especially Frodo. To be truthful I really didn't think they could make him any younger then he looked in the FotR. And yet he seemed even younger then the shots from the beginning of FotR. Even Galadriel looked younger. 

The Elves:

I loved the glimpse of the elves I got.  King Thranduil was so out of this world perfect. It was weird just looking at him because his was features where so perfect. I enjoyed seeing a close up of Elrond's armor as well as some musical and serving elves in Rivendell.  I only wish they had shown more of Bilbo's love of Rivendell, I think they could have shown him walking around it a little more.

The Trolls:
The trolls were awesome! I could not have wished for them to be better.

Gollum:

As usually Gollum was pretty awesome. Just when you think they can't get anymore facial expressions on this guy they pull something new. The whole riddle game scene was really funny and well acted.

The Minus Side

Azog the Goblin:

A little background here:
Azog entered history in the year TA 2790 due to King Thrór's desire to revisit and perhaps refound the lost realm of Khazad-dûm, in whose mighty ruins Azog dwelt. When Thror was found in the armories of Khazad-Dum he was brought before Azog being accused of thieving. Azog decided to kill Thror.

When news of this reached Thrór's heir Thráin, he was greatly angered and mustered a force of Dwarves to seek revenge on Azog. So began the War of the Dwarves and Orcs. The dwarves hunted Azog, and many battles were fought beneath the earth. After nine years of war, the climatic Battle of Azanulbizar was fought before the gates of Moria itself.

King Thráin and his son Thorin were in that battle (it was here that Thorin gained the surname Thorin Oakenshield). Near the end of the battle, Azog himself emerged and fought with Thráin's cousin Náin. After breaking Náin's neck, his young son Dáin; only 32 years old, swept the head from Azog's shoulders and helped to win the day. -LotR WikiSo I didn't really remember much of this background well watching the movie. In fact I didn't even remember if the "white orc" was in the book at all. The first thing that came to mind when I saw him was "that doesn't look like any orc I've ever seen." He reminded me more of the Ice Giants from Thor then an orc. I would have liked it much better if he was some kind of icky looking goblin.
And of course they changed the plot from the above. Making Thorin the one to fight Azog, cutting off his arm but not killing him. I didn't really mind the plot change, but I wish they had made him look more like a goblin.

3D:
It was really strange for me to see the Hobbit in 3D, going into this with the LotR in mind. I was not prepared for a LotR like movie in 3D. It was not at all bad, just took about half the movie to get used to it. 

Also the thing with 3D is that if you aren't watching a HFR it tends to be very blurry at the action parts. Going from a highly detailed LotR to blurry action was somewhat disappointing.

 

The Music:
I had listened to the full soundtrack before seeing the movie. I wasn't to impressed with it. I thought maybe it might be better with the actually movie, but I was disappointed again. The only really good songs where renditions of The Misty Mountains, Concerning Hobbits from LotR and Neil Finn's Song of the Lonely Mountain.

All in all I enjoyed it. So what were your thoughts on The Hobbit? How did you like it?