The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

The dragon looked great. And Tauriel was a pretty cool action lady. And despite all the padding the movie moves at a fast pace. And a bunch of that padding is letting the dwarves be bad ass instead of just getting captured by spiders, captured by elves, thrown into barrels and then sitting around while Bilbo talks to the dragon. But still such padding. Extra stuff with the Elves and Sauron and the graves of the Ring Wraiths and..really lots of padding. Fun and all but man. I'm betting by the end of it all it will take a whole week to watch all the Jackson/Tolkien mash-up...