Don't care for the genre, but still an amazing film

Rating: 9/10 (20 August 2007)

I'm going to be honest. I was never a fan of the elf-fantasy genre. It's just a personal preference of mine. But I must say, if Lord of the Rings is in anyway representative of the genre, then hop-diggity dog this genre is the staple of modern literature. An amazing film, an amazing trilogy, with a few cheesy moments (the Hobbits were very heavy-handed throughout the film, and Sam always had a speech to give to Frodo, way too many slow-motion sequences, music was good but overused, and Aragorn had a care for the hobbits that I just didn't get) but an overall gem in modern cinema. Gandalf was very well done and the short little Gimli provided comic relief on the scale of the droid duo from Star Wars.