The Hobbit will have the Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer attached

Not even batman vs superman trailer could get me to see this film.

Not that I needed another reason to see the final Hobbit movie 3 times in the theater, but both facts provided in the OP are awesome. I can't wait for a 45 minute long battle of the five armies! I could watch Hobbits mill about the Shire for hours, so even at 45 minutes, that battle will be too short.

You mean it will show up on youtube a week before the premiere

Ugh, the battle of the 5 armies pales in comparison to the size of the battle of Pelanor fields and Jackson ruined that battle.

I'm not a big fan of prequels. That's probably what I hate most about The Hobbit movies. I thought the second one was pretty good, but the ending pissed me off beyond belief. I'm hoping the final chapter will close everything out well.

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Nice. I enjoyed the first chapter, but was concerned about the excessively long, prolonged, fakish, cartoony looking underground battle. Skipped the second one and can now skip the third.

When CGI replaces storytelling with even a cat like Jackson?

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Jackson has been doing that shite since King Kong. You could easily cut out the horribly done dino stampede (it was an awful matting job even back then) and the (admittedly sweet but ultimately useless) playing on the ice scene near the end to make a better movie.

I agree that the CG in the underground battle was awful. In fact, pretty much everything underground that didn't involve Bilbo and Gollum was straight crap.

45 minutes of bad cgi.

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Also...the final battle in The Hobbit is reportedly 45 minutes long.

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It has to be. If Jackson is going to split up such a small book into 9 hours worth of film he has to make the only battle in the book big, especially since it's the title of the 3rd film.

With that said. I doubt it'll be 45 minutes of just non-stop action. I'm sure they'll cut to other stuff. I mean, how long was the battle in the 3rd movie actually going on? A while a bet, but they were able to cut to what was going on with Frodo and Aragorn so the action didn't seem needlessly endless.

However, all the characters in the book where at the battle. So I guess the cut away shots will have to be about Legolas chasing after that Orc, you know.. the subplot that Jackson completely made up.