A pile of new ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ images

What makes a long Thanksgiving weekend better than looking at pictures of magical adventures? Peter Jackson’s second flick in the Hobbit trilogy opens on December 13th, but if you can’t wait that long Warner Brothers just gave us a gigantic pile of shots from the film, which follows Bilbo Baggins and his crew as they raid the treasure horde of the dragon Smaug and reclaim the lost kingdom of Erebor. The first one was a competent but unexciting adventure that seemed a little dated in this post-Hunger Games universe, but it was still good fun and I’ll see the sequel. How do these shots look to you?