5:02 pm - 12/27/2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has surpassed the $500 million benchmark at the worldwide box office. To date, the blockbuster has earned an estimated $179.7 million domestically. In addition, on the heels of its record-breaking release in Australia -- the biggest Boxing Day opening of all time -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has grossed an estimated $344 million internationally, for a global total of $523.7 million.
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The Hobbit breaks half-billion-dollar mark in international box office
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has surpassed the $500 million benchmark at the worldwide box office. To date, the blockbuster has earned an estimated $179.7 million domestically. In addition, on the heels of its record-breaking release in Australia -- the biggest Boxing Day opening of all time -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has grossed an estimated $344 million internationally, for a global total of $523.7 million.
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No snark... I enjoyed it so I'm genuinely interested.
a person who commented below explains it well: "i thought it was unnecessarily epic :( it is a small story, despite its in-universe importance, but it failed at being small."
i love both LOTR and the hobbit dearly, but the hobbit is very very different tonally from LOTR. it seemed like peter jackson tried to force it to be like LOTR and it didn't work, because it suffers from simply not having as grand and epic a scope as LOTR. 3 movies for a slim book?? you could tell the plot was stretched to its limits and that there was filler. if you want to serve the hobbit's story well, there is absolutely no way that making it 3 loooong movies is the best thing to do -- it just looks like a cash grab to me and nothing more.
not that there weren't aspects of it that i enjoyed. i thought the acting was very good, and i did love just being back in that world. but overall, as a movie, i thought it was awful. PJ could have made one tight, brisk movie of the hobbit that would've been lovely. but he let his ego take over.