I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Not much this morning. Just this interesting list of 12 Must-See movies of 2012. I might also add The Hobbit, which I saw last Sunday, but it wasn't nearly as good as any of the LOTR movies. The primary problem: deviations from the book. The LOTR movies deviated from the book at times, but mostly, in my opinion, because they needed to in order to keep the films at a reasonable length (e.g., the Dead didn't go to Minas Tirith, but it would've been hard to explain how Aragorn came up with a sizable force without going into a lot of detail). The Hobbit, on the other hand, seems to add deviating material in order to stretch out the film. Overall, I found The Hobbit disappointing, but it's still a good film.
