What did I miss?

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2002)

I suffered through three hours watching this movie only because I went with someone else. I constantly checked my watch hoping it would be over soon. I can't for the life of me understand why this movie was nominated for so many Academy Awards including Best Picture. All I can say is what am I missing? To me, the characters seemed to be thrown into the plot through the manipulation of the story and not by their own motivations. Frodo is a completely reactive character and I didn't understand why he was chosen for this quest and I couldn't root for him when he went through a laughable series of disasters from avalanches to monster attacks coming oh so close to dying but no, he pops back all healthy again. The movie that constantly talked about evil failed to climax with good overcoming evil. I guess we have to wait for the second sequel for that to happen. Characters seemed to die or be carried off by monsters to suddenly appear unscathed later with no explanation. Please! There were only two women with lines in the movie and I'm not sure their importance to the story. I think we could have left out the scenes with them and not missed a thing. In fact, I thought it was such B movie trash that it made "The Mummy" look like a masterpiece by comparison.