I don’t care to explore the first reason here, beyond saying that the movie was completely overdone. The opening chapter took forever, almost an hour of strained jokes and dwarf partying. Aristotle remarks in his Poetics that great story tellers do not need to rely much on spectacle. Peter Jackson takes a good story and buries it under spectacle. Even a dinner party is polluted with dazzling CGI of plates flying like frisbees every which way. I found it annoying and I did not care to see what he would do with the rest of the story. I chose to preserve the purity of my own imagination rather than watch further.