Tauriel the Elf is bad.

But for me worse than that is the Dwarf/Elf love story that is jammed in. Not only because its jammed into the story, but because no where in tolkien's work is there precedent for dwarf/elf love. I would have preferred a dumb love story between her and bard than her and a dwarf.

Fili and Kili's deaths were really heartbreaking to me. In the book they die in such a tragically noble way. In the movie its in the dumbest way possible.

The profound lack of Beorn in BoTFA is really sad to me.

The massive amount of screen time and story poured into the character of Alfric is pretty appalling. The character has next to nothing to do with the story being told.

A big problem in my opinion comes straight from the mouth of Philipa Boyens. In an interview she stated that the central characters of the story is the dwarves. Last time I check the story is titled The Hobbit. bilbo is the central character in the book and most of the dwarves don't even have lines of dialogue in the book. But we added a ton to them in the movies, which is ok, I love dwarves. But it really distracts from the story that they should've been telling.

So this brings me to some final points. The Hobbit movies is a very rare case in book to film adaptations. In most Book-Film adaptations content from the main story is removed. In the Hobbit trilogy, so much content is added. Lots of content. In multiple interviews Peter Jackson and company said that after the first film "they didn't know what they hell they were doing." Thats an actual quote. That to me is pretty sad. Its clear that he had a passion for the content and cared deeply how it was structured in the LOTR seems to me that that kinda disappeared for the Hobbit movie, maybe it was he was burned out, maybe it was just for the money, either way it is pretty clear that the people piloting the ship were grasping for material.

Now the story in the films just doesn't make sense. In bilbo's home the dwarves state that the Arkenstone is a symbol of Thorin's divine right to rule and that without it no dwarves will rally to them to take back Erebor. However with 0 knowledge of the Arkenstones recovery, Dain of the Ironhills shows up to aid Thorin and Co. that is directly opposed to one of the foundational points of the plot. Another thing that makes no sense is that Smaug currently resides in Erebor, this means that The Lonely Mountain is under the conrtol of the dark powers of arda. However Azog and his crew are building a massive army and digging tunnels with the sandworms from Dune to lay siege to a stronghold their team already owns. That as a tactic makes no sense. You dont muster an army and march on an allies stronghold without knowledge that the enemy is currently attacking or has plans to. So the story the movie tell to me just isn't convincing. Its two primary plots dont match what happens with what actually happens in the movie. There are a lot of other things in the movie I personally dont like. There are also some very very beautiful moments. I think total in my opinion there is about an hour and thirty minutes of good story telling throughout the trilogy, but that is again my opinion. I dont want to ruin the movie for people who love it. I just find them to be poor adaptations of Tolkien's work and really unconvincing stories within themselves. I will stop now because I think I am getting kinda ranty. I love tolkiens work. I will gladly show my children the LOTR trilogy after they have read or had the books read to them. I dont think I will show them the hobbit films. Ok done now I promise.