I hear ya , Burlapin <| sep |> Yep the plastic cover is great ! <| sep |> Your welcome thank you for your trust <| sep |> lyram 03 Maybe . Or maybe her whole peaceful transition plan just went right down the drain . <| sep |> Ok because I was about to ask you to pat the poor bastard on the back and say , Nicklovn says hes so sorry for what you suffer through and sends his regards . But that makes sense . Happy Thanksgiving . <| sep |> I urge everyone to watch The Tolkien Cut of the Hobbit . It is pretty easy to find and download . It cuts the 3 films down into essentially 1 long 4 and half hour film with intermission . And it works . It is very easy to see where they had planned the films to just be 2 movies strictly based on the books . Gone are all the excess plots dealing with Azog , Kate from Lost , and the necromancer plot . It is all just focused on the book . There are a few odd cuts here and there , but by and large the movie works so much better than the original films . And you can see that the issue with them wasn ' t him not having time to prep , it was simply them wanting to make 3 films out of 2 films . It also to me shows that Jackson still has good directing . Moreover the story is much more focused on Bilbo himself . It allows for the great moments of the films to really pop Bilbo and Gollum , Bilbo and Smaug , Smaug attacking Lake Town , Bilbo in the forest with the spiders , the final battle . It is surprising to me how much more I really enjoyed this cut of the film , where I struggled so much with the originals .