{"id":14203,"date":"2013-12-12T20:56:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T01:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/movie-blog\/2013\/12\/tonight-the-hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-opens-at-midnight-clips-interviews-more.html"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T13:02:50","slug":"tonight-the-hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-opens-at-midnight-clips-interviews-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/movie-blog\/2013\/12\/tonight-the-hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-opens-at-midnight-clips-interviews-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight! ‘The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug’ Opens At Midnight. Clips, Interviews, & More…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s everything you need to know, and then some, before you go:<\/p>\n

1) Tickets and Showtimes<\/b><\/a>. (The most important, after all.)<\/p>\n

2) Reviews are in, and critics are overjoyed<\/u>. With over 100 reviews counted, DoS is sitting at about 70% fresh on Rottentomatoes, with an average score of about 7 out of 10. This just about matches its 65% on metacritic. What remains to be seen: Is this a genuinely rousing adventure, or is everyone just shell-shocked because the first Hobbit was such an unexpected bore? (oh, yes I did.)<\/p>\n

3) Trailers, Clips, and Interviews.<\/u> There’s a few here on the blog’s main page. Click the link below (if necessary) for the full post, which has loads and loads more. Peter Jackson? Several. Orlando Bloom? Of course! Looking for a Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies, Twilight) interview? No one else has it, but you’ll find it here!<\/b><\/p>\n

Here’s the smokin’ hot extended trailer, “Corruption”:<\/p>\n