Most of this is done to set up the third movie, which will wrap up the story of The Hobbit but also bridge the gap between these prequel movies and the Lord of the Rings films. There are still more than a few chases, and the scenes that aren't chases are often overly talky sequences where ominous figures drone on ominously about an ominously ominous Coming Evil. The new movie inherits a few of these problems. This was emphatically not the case with last year's An Unexpected Journey, which has a whole pile of structural and thematic problems. Peter Jackson and crew took what could have been a reasonably watchable two-hour fantasy film and padded it out to three hours with interminable chase sequences, memorable-for-all-the-wrong-reasons rock monster battles, and pointless Elijah Wood cameos. Let me begin by saying that I didn't dislike The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug. If you haven't read the books and want to be surprised by the next movie, do not pass beyond this point. As such, it will spoil not just the movie and the book, but probably also many elements of the next Hobbit film. Before going forward, an important spoiler warning: this article assumes that you've seen both The Hobbit films and read the book and takes no pains to avoid spoilers for any of it.
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