{"id":83911,"date":"2013-12-04T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=83911"},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:38:15","slug":"time-declares-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-one-of-its-top-10-films-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/12\/04\/83911-time-declares-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-one-of-its-top-10-films-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME declares The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug one of its top 10 films of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thorin Over the past week or so, various press screenings for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug have been occurring all over the globe. Strictly speaking, everyone (including several TORn staffers) is supposed to be under embargo and NDA until December 8 at 12.01am PST, but in a clever (and seemingly successful!) work-around, TIME magazine has dropped the film in at the number 10 spot on its top films of the year.<\/p>\n

So what did they have to say about the film? It’s a teeny bit spoilery, and actually quite complimentary.<\/p>\n

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Here it is.<\/p>\n

Who could guess, after the meandering first feature in a seemingly unnecessary eight-hour trilogy of films based on a novel of less than 300 pages, that Peter Jackson had such a vigorous and thrilling middle episode in store? With Bilbo (Martin Freeman), Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the dwarves finally done with introductory dawdling, they dive into a nonstop adventure among the noble Elves, the rough-hewn humans of Laketown and the ferocious dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch).<\/p>\n

This time, Andy Serkis has not lent his presence to Gollum, but his work as second-unit director is spectacular. Each complex encounter, especially a flume-ride escape of the dwarves, boasts a teeming ingenuity of action and character. A bonus: the budding romance of the warrior Elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) and the dwarf hunk Kili (Aidan Turner). In all, this is a splendid achievement, close to the grandeur of Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read TIME’s complete Top 10 list here<\/a>. TheOneRing.net’s first staff reviews of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will debut on December 8 at 12.01am PST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past week or so, various press screenings for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug have been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":83546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,4,148,1911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/THDOS_Main_sm.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-lPp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83911","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83915,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83911\/revisions\/83915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}