10 Bafflingly High IMDb Movie Ratings You Won't Believe

3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

IMDb Rating: 8.0 When The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey first hit cinemas in late 2012, many fans were happy to dismiss the problems innate in expanding a slim book into three gigantic movies (it stretches the narrative, there's no sense of structure in the individual entries, it allows for a song about washing up) with the simple defence that it was "just nice to be back in Middle-Earth." Clearly that was all many people needed to be satisfied, because Peter Jackson's disappointing return to Tolkien sits with an 8.0 on IMDb. No, seriously - it's that high. The film that takes almost three hours to tell six chapters of a children's book, yet can't manage to make you care about any characters not in The Lord Of The Rings, is rated only slightly lower than its far superior predecessor. The Desolation Of Smaug likewise has an 8.0, while The Battle Of The Five Armies is looking like it'll close out its cinema run on 7.7, showing only a slight shift in audience satisfaction with the trilogy as it ran on.