One movie to bore them all

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2001)

First of all, as I´m from Spain, hope you´ll forgive me if I make some mistakes with your language.
I´ve been looking forward to read the book for years, and I haven´t done it yet. Maybe next summer.
As I haven´t read the book, I´m not sure what should I expect from the movie. An epic history like "Cleopatra" or "The Ten Commandments"? Or merely a thrilling film like "Mission:Impossible 2"?
Despite what I expected, I have to say that this film really bored me to death. It´s too long for the little it has to tell (well, three hundred pages -I think so- are one hour and a half movie, not three!!!). The acting is horrible: Elijah Wood thinks he´ll get somewhere acting with his two unique facial expressions (smile and fear), and Liv Tyler, though she doesn´t appear much in the movie, tries to fill all of us with her sex appeal and hermetism that so well did Liz Taylor in "Cleopatra". But Liv is not Liz. Disgusting, really.
It seems to be a videogame. Really, it seems so. They find a problem: they solve it; they find a problem: they solve it, and so on.
Peter Jackson has made the same as many other bad Hollywood directors: to try in a film the ecuation: "violence + special effects = people looking". This is very insulting for the seventh art, the only ecuation that there´ll ever be when making a movie is "good actors + good script + good direction + good soundtrack + good photography = good movie". But, painfully, "The Lord of the Rings" had none of those elements.
On the other hand, it does have great special effects and great sceneries. God, they´re really wonderful!
The soundtrack is not memorable, sure it´s not. It´s not even good. It doesn´t create the mood it has to create many times.
Since I saw this movie, I can say wonders about how in Hollywood they shoot from helicopters. But shooting so much from helicopters won´t make it a good movie. And it won´t make it more spectacular, either.
At the beginning of the movie, we can see thousands of creatures fighting among them. That is very spectacular. Yet I can´t stop thinking that the scene of "Gone With The Wind"(1939) where Scarlett walked over all those soldiers, though technically was worse, it was more dramatic.

In conclusion, it bore me to death. I hated the movie, I really did.