re: Official Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug Review Thread (spoilers)

Has anyone mentioned the over the top amount of gold?

With that much gold, gold wouldn't actually have been rare, thus it wouldn't have been worth anything.

Not to mention the RIVER of molten gold and the 100 foot tall gold statue.

Everything was over the top. The more I think about it the more I think this one was even worse than the first one.

He essentially made a caricature of the hobbit.

I do love your point that the book is about greed and yet the splitting of the movie into 3 fracking movies was fueled 100% by greed.