I couldn’t either. But for me the movie has had a heavy-handed visit from the Suck Fairy, too.
I’m also in the boat of not being a fan of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books–never even attempted to read them (fantasy not being a strong genre reading intrest for me) until only a few years ago, after the LotR movies came out–I quit on Hobbit around halfway through, quit on Fellowship probably 1/20th of the way through. Tolkien IMHO created interesting worlds but wrote very clumsy dialogue and prose.