Thoughts on the Second Hobbit Movie

So, I've seen The Desolation of Smaug twice now, and to be honest, I'm not sure what I think of it.  I mean, I enjoyed watching it, but I'm not sure how good it actually is.  Now, while I love The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, I'm not a diehard Tolkien fan.  Tom Bombadil was absolutely the worst part of the Lord of the Rings, which I talked about here.  It's not the fact that they added a lot of new stuff, it's a movie, not the book, I expect it to be different.  That's what adaptation means.  I'm just not sure the new stuff was done all that well.  I think I actually liked the first movie better, because while there was some stuff added, it was all related to the original plot.  There weren't any new subplots between a female elf and one of the dwarves.  The first movie was the first 140 pages of the book expanded into movie form.  This movie was...I don't know, but it wasn't what I wanted.  Two movies would have worked for this, but we needed to get three, because money.  Oh well.