In a shocking twist, I have watched something non-superhero related; namely, the two Hobbit movies. I quite liked the first one. Padded at times, yes, and we could have done without those scenes with Radagast, but still enjoyable. As everyone in the world has already pointed out, they didn't feel the need to be all broody mcbroodwalking, and the movie was stronger for it. Like the way they kept to the silly tone of the scenes with the trolls and the Great Goblin, and didn't just depict them as monsters incapable of normal speech. That was a pleasant surprise.
The second one, though, was not so good. My biggest issue with it was all the LotR shit they shoved in, especially with Gandalf at Dol Guldur. I watched this movie because I wanted to see The Hobbit. I didn't watch it because I wanted to see LotR Episode One: The Phantom Menace. The Hobbit is its own story. It's not a "prequel" to LotR, and giving it that treatment not only distracts from the main story, but weakens the film overall by rehashing elements that were so ubiquitous in LotR. It was fanfiction, and not even good fanfiction. Jackson was so preoccupied with whether or not he could show us these scenes that he didn't stop to think if he should.
There were a few other things I didn't like about the movie, although nothing quite so major. Legolas's technically-flawless, pitch-perfect combat prowess is fun to watch at first, just like in LotR, but starts to get annoying as your suspension of disbelief slowly fades and you realize you're watching someone's Mary Sue self-insertion fantasy - again, just like in LotR. The overly-long climax with Smaug wore itself out after a while, too, and the dwarves' constantly whipping elaborate traps and escape methods out of their asses was a bit too much of a stretch - uh, no pun intended. One thing that I honestly didn't mind too much was the love triangle subplot. It wasn't fantastic or anything, but for whatever reason, it just didn't bother me.