How to Desolate a Dragon

By W. R. Miller on December 31, 2014

In its first two weeks of release, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug became the fourth highest-grossing film of 2013, ultimately earning $958,366,855 worldwide in its theatrical venue.

Do these enormous box-office revenues make the film immune from criticism? Here’s an Honest Movie Trailer:


Posted online on December 16, 2014

And author John C. Wright offers his views on “The Desolation of Tolkien” here, from February 11, 2014.

“I loved the first Hobbit movie and hated, hated, hated the second,” he says. “It was stupid on every level of stupidity.”

Ouch.

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