At Times, Memory is a Curse

Some people think that having a good memory is a blessing. Well, perhaps a good memory is, but not a perfect one. I guess I'm lucky that I seem to be somewhere in between. The simplest way to describe what that means is that while most people will forget the bad things that happen in their lives as they grow old (but typically not the good moments) I tend to remember them. Not all of them and not with perfect detail, but a fair number of them. Those with perfect memory remember all of them and they have my sympathy.
Anyway, I'm speaking of my memory not because of some good or bad occurrence in my life, but because I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. I have read the book on my own once about one-and-a-half to two years ago and I can remember so much of it so clearly, that watching the movie was irritating. I could remember what happened in the story as though I had just put the book down last week, so many (probably not all as I am not a Tolkien fanatic) of the differences/inaccuracies of the movie jumped out at me.
Yeah, I know that sounds trivial, and for most it would be. Not for me though, especially as I know what it is like to write and edit stories of my own creation. What I commit to word is cannon for my stories, so changes of the degree we see in that movie would not be welcomed by me.
So what did I think of the movie? It was okay. Some of the graphics did not impress me greatly; primarily the fluid physics. At times that looked like what my computer can give me in a game, and a movie uses far more powerful machines and software. The storytelling itself though seemed impatient to me. It never really paused long enough to dwell on and explore the story. Also the ending is not where I would have put it. Not to spoil it but the ending is one of those, 'see you in a year' jobs we get in many modern trilogies. You know, where the second and third movies really are one movie with a year-long intermission. Think Matrix Trilogy if you need an example of what I mean, but thankfully this is still better than that.
Having said that though, you will see me in a year, Mr. Baggins. You will.