Down with Ring Fanatics!

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2003)

How anyone could enjoy this film is beyond comprehension, and I strongly suspect that elements of fanaticism are involved in its surge up the IMDB ladder.
The Fellowship of the Ring is long, incomplete, and boring. The only reason why my friends liked this film is because everyone else loved it. One standard argument goes, "You think it sucks, but everyone else thinks it's good!" This is a textbook example of the bandwagon effect.
The fight scenes were extremely confusing and repetitive, almost as bad as those in Pirates of the Carribean (another inferior film).
I cannot understand why so many females seem to like this film when it under-represents women. All the women in this movie are presented as useless, weak, and pathetic, as opposed to the men who are stylistically glamorized as brave and gallant characters.
Furthermore, the three Lord of the Rings movies as a whole seem to romanticize war. One could easily interpret the themes of loyalty and good versus evil as themes of extremism and stubbornness.
If you want a good war movie, watch Schindler's List.
4/10