Sound Off: Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’

Now that you’ve seen it, what did you think? “Bilbo Baggins, I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure… ” It begins! In theaters everywhere is The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first movie in Peter Jackson’s trilogy adapting the J.R.R. Tolkien classic novel The Hobbit. Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo, who gets whisked away on an adventure with the Company of Dwarves lead by Thorin Oakenshield, played by Richard Armitage, plus Gandalf, played by Ian McKellen. So how is the first movie? As good as Fellowship of the Ring, or not? If you’ve seen it, post a comment with your thoughts on the first Hobbit. To fuel these goblin fires, An Unexpected Journey (seen twice so far in 48FPS 3D) is a wondrous, massively entertaining fantasy epic. It’s a gigantic, fun kids movie, completely realized as a trilogy with nothing but the finest cinematic adornments to fill up …