God Awful

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2012)

This is one of three movies I have ever walked out on. I would have rather have watched paint dry. First of all, the high frame rate makes it look like video. The acting was atrocious. The writing was insipid. The direction was awful. And the real 3D, OMG, but great if you like Cinderella's birds fluttering towards you. It was like a grand-scale cartoon with real people. But this...! It was like Peter Jackson was taking a hammer to my brain! And the colors! Beyond Technicolor to the point where they just looked like you were seeing them under UV light. I could only take about an hour of it. Good luck, Mr. Jackson, with the millions you will make off of this and be sure and add my ticket price to what you make. God save us all from the four-hour, extended director's cut!
Don't get me wrong. I love the Lord of the Rings. I own it on blu-ray. I guess I'm just not a creature of hobbit. Blech!
Oh, and the other two films I walked out onâ€”What Lies Beneath and Signs.