re: Screw Rotten Tomatoes overall %, what did the M/TV board think of The Hobbit

Finally saw it this past weekend. I really liked it a lot, but this:

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And the constant falling on portions of bridges through the Misty mountain "tunnels" and in general falling long distances without any injuries took me out of my suspension of disbelief more than once.

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..bothered the frick out of me several times. I mean, I'm all for suspensions of belief, but some of the inside-the-mountain scenes were laughable in terms of believability. This bridge falls perfectly onto that one, and then onto another one, whatever...but then all of them fall hundreds (thousands even) of feet down to the bottom and not a single person is hurt...not even a little bit. And that's on top of the bridge actually staying together the whole way down and all that.

And I know, it's a movie about magic and dwarves and dragons and all that...I get that. But some of those scenes in the mountain really took me out of the movie.

But aside from that, I really enjoyed it. I liked the intro and that they at least explain some of what's going on so that nonreaders can kinda have a clue...similar to the openings to the Star Wars movies I guess. I'd like to see it one more time in theaters, but I don't think I will. And I do like how they ended it..similar to the LotR films, where they still had a climax, so to speak, but also managed to leave it on a bit of a cliffhanger.