I simply don't get it!

Rating: Null/10 (4 March 2002)

I understand the old adage, "different strokes for different folks", but this movie left me dumbfounded. It wasn't due to the unbelievable amount of hype that surrounded this 'video game gone big screen' epic, it was more the fact that not one arc was worth my time. There were so many characters who encountered computer-animated battle scene after computer-animated battle scene that I didn't who, if anybody, I was supposed to care about. So I didn't bother. And how about a few hundred too many insert shots of that stupid ring. You've got to be kidding me. It screamed film school! The fact that this movie has already made half of a billion dollars is a testament to the fact that people just have WAY too much free time. Read a book for christ's sake (which could be accomplished in the time this waste took to painfully bleed to a finish) And the love scene, you've got to be kidding me. Was that foreshadowing or lack of edit time? Every character, short of the one dude, who was pretty unreal with his bow and arrow, made me yearn for the third installment of those dumb Mummy movies. Best Picture!?!?! Best Director?!?!?! I'm not a big musical guy myself, but Baz Luhrmann at least took a chance and put his personal stamp on a movie (Moulin Rouge). Peter Jackson basically created a computer program that George Lucas would spit on and contaminated it with characters that lacked any sense of direction. And to conclude, that Elijah Wood is just plain eerie and that isn't due to good acting.