When the “Lord of the Rings” movies dropped, people got
crazy pumped for the release of the extended editions. A year from now, when
the last of Peter Jackson’s three “Hobbit” movies has come and gone, I’m
excited for someone to splice them together, hack out all the superfluous crap,
and finally reveal the single good movie that I know is
hidden in there somewhere. It should be about three hours long. What we’ve seen
thus far, including the latest, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” has been
nothing but a disappointment. Overlong, bloated, and tedious, Jackson even did
something that I’d have thought impossible, he made a giant, fire-breathing
dragon voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch boring as shit.
