{"id":83485,"date":"2013-11-29T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=83485"},"modified":"2013-11-29T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T21:11:38","slug":"bbfc-announces-12a-rating-and-161-minute-runtime-for-the-desolation-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/11\/29\/83485-bbfc-announces-12a-rating-and-161-minute-runtime-for-the-desolation-of-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"BBFC announces 12A rating and 161 minute runtime for The Desolation of Smaug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73016 no-lazyload\" alt=\"desolation of smaug poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1-600x889.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/desolation-of-smaug-poster1.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>The British Board of Film Classification has given The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug a 12A rating and revealed a running time of 2 hours and 41 minutes. This is in line with Philippa Boyens&#8217; assertion, after the release of <em>An Unexpected Journey<\/em>, that the next film would run shorter than the first installment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This will make <em>The Desolation of Smaug\u00a0<\/em>the shortest of Peter Jackson&#8217;s Middle-earth films, running about 8 minutes shorter than <em>An Unexpected Journey<\/em>&#8216;s theatrical runtime.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a title=\"THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG | British Board of Film Classification\" href=\"http:\/\/bbfc.co.uk\/releases\/hobbit-desolation-smaug-film-0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see the BBFC rating page for The Desolation of Smaug.<\/p>\n<p>In this fan&#8217;s humble opinion, this is a wonderful length for the film &#8211; though all I really care about is that this is a well paced film that tells an engaging and satisfying story within its runtime, regardless of the actual length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Board of Film Classification has given The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug a 12A rating and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":83486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"BBFC announces 12A rating and 161 minute runtime for The Desolation of Smaug http:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-lIx","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1156,1287,74,496,148,1911,392],"tags":[2281,1830,2283,2282,221],"class_list":["post-83485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-mgm-production-studios-production","category-new-line-cinema-production-studios","category-jackson","category-production","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","category-warner-bros","tag-bbfc","tag-desolation-of-smaug","tag-rating","tag-runtime","tag-the-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Desolation-of-Smaug-Poster.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-lIx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83485"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83534,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83485\/revisions\/83534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}