A Geek Flick.

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2003)

This boring, childish display of another Medieval Times Dinner and Theater type of thing could not answer my question as to why so many people made it sound bigger than it really is. I thought that what it actually is, is nothing more than an artistic collaboration and effort to faithfully bring book to screen, but certainly far from, "The best movie of the year," it was certainly original in presentation and directing. But I still cannot for the life of me shake this impression of it being a Geek Flick. I'll give it a 3 out of 5 stars if someone asked me to. What really makes me want to divert from stepping foot into a theater to see this and that other waste-of-time Harry Potter, is witnessing the way adults go around parading themselves on trains and buses with those colorful novels and celebrating their "return to childish innocence" which I call the "return to childish freedom to be and do whatever one feels so as to convince oneself that the world is safer than the one they've known lately as adults"-a fantasy to bury themselves in, I think it is only appealing to those adults who haven't been getting any bedroom action. I am reminded of Comicbook Guy on the Simpsons, so is there a little bit of him in every adult? Not me, and not any other respectable adult.
But unlike that visually beautiful filth known as Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings doesn't try too hard, the plot (although cliche) is a representation of human/dwarf struggle at its very roots. Its about working together with our strengths combined by friendship in order to face the deadly unknown, being straight from the depths of the imagination are creatures of strange and clumsy form who may or may not threaten us. In that way I guess the movie brings people together by the common act of being human (I had not however noticed any diversity in the banding of the merry men). But I assume that anyone who knows what a real struggle is like knows that this is fantastic filth/garbage. A movie like this only appeals to those of us who are sheltered, suburbanites or are urban individuals caught in an urban struggle and want to escape through some loser's imagination (I forget the loser's name, nor would I ever care to have it). That is the whole movie right there, nothing more, nothing less, overall its a movie, that's right a movie, not a way of life.
That is all I have to say for this.