BEFORE IT ESCALATES ANY FURTHER.

[Darth Wyndisis]

I would like to point out the fact that I do not HATE LOTR... I just don't love it.
That is all.

BLASPHEMY!

[TP Zelda]

I don't hate it either, I just don't think it has anything going for it outside of the effects. Anything at all.

The story.
Or the moral of the story... 

It wasn't made just for the effects, y'know.

[Mysterious F.]

The story.
Or the moral of the story... 

It wasn't made just for the effects, y'know.

The acting is stiff. The characters are stereotypes and uninteresting. It's too long. It's one note. It's nothing more than an endless series of battle scenes. It's amazingly pretentious and self-important. It's a filmed video game. The storytelling and direction are unimaginative. It's paper thin. And not since Ben-Hur has any movie (well, technically three) created such entirely new standards for cinematic dullness.

Also, what moral?

[Hi no Seijin]

Damn it, I had a good, lengthy post typed up, and the computer somehow erased it all.

Basically, Whocares, you're being hypercritical again, and it's pissing me off.  Just because you didn't like doesn't mean it doens't have a moral to the story; it has several, my favorite being that there are people, places, and ideas worth fighting for, even if it means sacrificing your own life to protect them.  "It's too long" is a rather shallow reason, especially when the people who actually do like the movies don't mind sitting through all of it.  Oh, yes, every second of the film had a fight in it; the battle scenes were well paced out, and there weren't nearly enough for it to seem like every scene was a battle scene.  How is it pretentious and self-important?  Those are terms you use to critique a documentary, not a fantasy epic.  Okay, just about any movie that has action in it gets a video game based off of it, including your precious The Godfather, so "it's a filmed video game" is a rather lame excuse.  Get the special extended editions of the movie and watch the making of documentaries; Jackson and the rest of the crew put a hell of a lot of work into retelling the trilogy as a movie while keeping as faithful to Tolkien's original work as they could, and calling it unimaginative is an insult to them.  Of course it's paper thin; you don't like it!  And why?  Because essentially, it all boils down to you being a fan of directors and movies from a previous generation.  That generation is past, and I think it's about damn time you stop holding up newer movies to them.  Every new director/author/artist/whatever brings changes with them, and there's no point complaining that they're nothing like the former directors/authors/artists/whatevers.  If you can't accept change, then you have no right to criticize anything.

[TP Zelda]

There, there, HnS. *Pats head* It's okay.  :P

But...HnS does have a point, Whocares.


The acting isn't "stiff." In fact, they all did very good acting, putting a lot of emotion into their characters, and acting the way they did in the books (does that make sense?). Elijah Wood does an exceptionally good job at putting the emotions needed into acting.

Yes, there were a lot of battle scenes, but there was an equal amount of non-battle scenes, also. There HAVE to be battle scenes, because it's a war. War has a lot of fighting and stuff, in case you didn't get that from some of your "good" movies.

Did you even watch all of it? Did you even read the books? I, myself, have only read teh first two so far, and they have been very, very good. A little hard to read and understand, but I'm sure that'll get easier when I get older. In my opinion, since I grew up with the movies that's what I've come to know and love.

There are some people in the world who don't like it, but that's their problem because it's the best story (to me) in the whole world.

Uhh...that probably didn't really make any sense. o...O HnS said basically all of what needed to be said. XD

[Keaton]

I am disappointed.