Will The Hobbit end up "rotten"?

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It's currently at 74% (average rating: 6.7) with only 19 reviews in. Early reviews for these sorts of movies are usually more positive than the ones that drop later on. What do you think?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hobbit_an_unexpected_journey/

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Still hanging in the mid-70s for now. The reviews are dripping in really, really slowly though. We'll see how it does when the flood hits.

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I'm surprised that they put up a consensus with only 55 reviews in. They may end up having to change it a bit.

Currently at 73% (although it's only at 30% with the so called "Top Critics").

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So as someone who doesn't particularly care about these books or films, what was so messed up about The Two Towers in particular (according to the purists here)?

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Down to 66%. This is gonna be close but it should hang on. Most of the reviews are in now.

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Down to 64%. Getting close!

Also, the opening weekend wasn't all that impressive domestically. It did $84.6 million, which is a new record for December but the tracking for it actually had it at $120 million.

I know my theater was incredibly slow this weekend at least compared to what we were expecting (although I wonder how much of an impact the shooting may have had, we're only about 45 miles away from it).

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3587&p=.htm

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I thought the movie was good. It shouldn't be below 75%

A bunch of nerds are upset that the movie wasn't exactly like the book, as you can see from reading this thread.

That's not what's bugging most film critics about it though (after all The Two Towers is sitting at 96%). The critics that haven't liked it are mostly complaining about it being boring, repetitive and too long.

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I thought the movie was good. It shouldn't be below 75%

A bunch of nerds are upset that the movie wasn't exactly like the book, as you can see from reading this thread.

That's not what's bugging most film critics about it though (after all The Two Towers is sitting at 96%). The critics that haven't liked it are mostly complaining about it being boring, repetitive and too long.

How does somebody who enjoyed The Two Towers find The Hobbit boring, repetitive, and too long?

Probably because The Hobbit is a shorter book than The Two Towers and yet it has been turned into a three movie series (compared to the one Two Towers film) bloated with all kinds of filler to pad out the runtimes and rake in that extra money.

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How'd this crap manage to get nominated for anything?