I'm Swimming against the current!!

Rating: Null/10 (3 February 2002)

I know that I'm swimming against the current, but Lord of the Rings is another in a string of long special effects movies with little depth of character development and long,long spectacular violent scenes. This should be called "Monsters, Inc." For people who love the Rings Trilogy, this level of one-after-another "excitement" may be just what you were looking for. This movie went on forever...and just think there's more to come. Lord of The Rings marks the most mud, slime, drooling, ugliness, and bad dental work that I have seen in the cinema. I'm glad that they were able to use the same troll idea and figure from Harry Potter. I'm also glad that smells were not spread into the theater, since all of the characters, except Frodo were unwashed...years worth of filth. How did Frodo keep such a clean face?
Is this and other films' extreme length an indication of film quality? I don't think so. Interminable films do not equal great films. I'm interested in less phlegm, drool and ugliness,and more fine acting, tighter story lines and plot variation that holds my interest. I wouldn't want to see this again, so I guess I am glad I saw it once...ONCE IS ENOUGH. Sorry, but I'm proud to be in the tiny minority that couldn't wait to leave the theater before the credits rolled.