Fighting and threats lacked subtlety

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2001)

This was an amazing movie, and my hat is off to the director and screenwriter for accomplishing the nearly impossible.
Rather than repeat the well-deserved praise, I'd like to point out that movies and movie goers seem to need a hit-em-over-the-head approach.
I thought that you could have halved the numbers of warriors and orcs and bad guys in most of the fight scenes and had a better fight scene.
The kraken pulling Frodo completely off his feet and waving him around in the air -- too much.
If that Black Rider can get his nose within a foot or so of Frodo and the ring still not smell him or detect it, he needs a new job.
Some of the fighting should have been cut out to give five minutes to the development of the devotion that Gimli feels toward Galadriel in the book -- it would have added a great deal to Galadriel, Gimli, and elves and dwarves in general.
How about some golden lighting in Lothlorien and some sense of the joy of elf-life?
Still, I was enthralled through most of movie. What can you say about a Fellowship of the Ring that begins with a perfect Gandalf and a perfect Bilbo? Astonishing.