Needs the skin cut by 1.5 hours

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2001)

So it opened today in Los Angeles; and it is Wednesday; and free popcorn day and I was asked if I would like to see the film in a very comfortable STADIUM SEAT theater, and by a very graphics/animation oriented person.
My friend was the first to jokingly yell when the credits finally arrived and the house lights brightened: Where is my refund! Others in the audience were also negatively bedazzled with the redundancy of graphics and evil/good themes and bad ogres that got in the way of substance -- which was truely there in the first half of the film where things could have been concluded.
One can always tell a poorly edited or directed or writen film when the audience starts to take jabs about half-way through when the viewer's labor begins a transition into convulsions. Not having read the book, everything was a new experience. But still, it was too long and did not sustain the story and fantasy by disguising new monsters in different clothing when they attack the good guys.
I suppose I should not have rented MOULIN ROUGE the day before when the DVD was released -- if I was to enjoy RINGS. These two films perhaps have some underpinnings of similarity in terms of evil, good, and love and hate and conspiracy and "get even" mentality". ROUGE wins; RINGS -- well, sucks.
I apparently paid for the UNCUT version; well, it is time for the editors to trim the skin to 1.5 hours total. Particularly is there will be sequential movies.