Slow as the feloship's journy.

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2002)

Let me start by saying that I never liked the book Lord of the Rings. Happy memories entwine me from when I was about 12 and would sit and draw while listening to The Hobbit. The Hobbit was ingenious and clever, while Lord of the Rings felt like a dreary old history book. Now we come to the movie, what can I say? I saw it in the theaters the first week it came out. Did I like it? This is not the question; more precisely let me state that, yes, it did, so far as I could tell, follow the book, perhaps not only that, but it had the feel of the book. It flowed as the book does, and it was every bit as boring. Just as in the book it started out charmingly with the little Hobbit village, quivered on the edge of being intriguing for a moment, but soon wound its way into a tireless sickle of attacks, runs, and frustratingly predictable sentimentality. Yes I fidgeted and yawned, but finally gathered myself to sit though and enjoy, just as the movie uncompromisingly, frustratingly, ended. So this is one idea I propose. PUT A STOP TO MULTI PART MOVIES!!! Yes I can understand making a movie that is complete in of itself, it has a beginning and and end, such as Star Wars episode one, yet you know there are three coming up, but The Lord of the Rings did not even have the climax in the movie, all it had was the meat usually found in the second third of the book. As sorry I am to say, even the nice effects did not make this movie more then just another average; that could have waited for my home screen.