Not a fan, still let down

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2015)

To begin with, I haven't read the books. I'm not a big reader, though I might enjoy literature when I take the time to consider it.
I pushed "play" with high expectations, really high ones, because everybody since 2001 was continuously saying that this is the best trilogy of all time. I was like "Meh, it's not for me". After almost 15 years, I gave it a try. Disappointed ? Yes. The characters have nothing to offer, and some of them are the plain annoying, for example Pippin and Merry. The acting is horrible because every single line is said with the same lifeless tone and the actors have dull facial expressions. The elvish dialogue makes me want to cry blood because it seems to be here just to show off with nothing to offer. The humor doesn't make me laugh at all and some scenes are just clichéd version of themselves, especially the death of Boromir.
Not to mention, it's boring. Even the battle sequences are full of s**t. The slow motion moments only add to the frustration caused by the slowness of this flick. They felt the need to include a romantic subplot, which is horrible and so clichéd I could have come up with something better as a 2-year-old.
And don't get me started with the visuals. I'm not a fan of CGI in live action flicks. It gets dated in 6 months and looks horrible, and so does every green screen in this movie. The green screens are so obvious they ruin everything.
I'm bashing this movie, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have qualities. Some of the visuals are OK, and the music is good. But it's not enough. I don't see any interesting plot, everything is so slow you barely see crap. Besides the character development is really lame, and the villain is one-dimensional. Frodo is a horrible hero, he does everything to be useless and harmless, and so it doesn't make sense that he carries the ring.
My best friend told me that LOTR was so beautiful, you had to be captivated. Hell no, I want a story, not impressive visuals. Night of the Living Dead was made for 60k and it is more far more entertaining that this, hell it had better character development.
Overall, the movie is not self sufficient. It is made so that you have to watch the entire trilogy, not that you'd want to after this catastrophe. I don't mind a 1h30 long crappy movie, but this is 3h-long, it makes it even worst.
If you are a fan of Tolkien's work, you will like it. As a movie-goer, I can't stand it for so many reasons, it's incredible.
5/10 because it's boring, dull, and the hero sucks.