Why do people like this so much?

Rating: 6/10 (31 July 2006)

The entire Lord of the Rings series is extremely one dimensional and only a few times, two dimensional. All the visuals and creation of a whole new world on the screen merely provides a facade at which a viewer can only stare for a limited time. One simply cannot spread that over 3 whole movies. Imagine the madness of watching this in a marathon? I don't see anything new at all in this series. Monsters, Wizards, Trolls, Magic, Wars, medieval themes et al have all been done before, simply not on the same scale as done in Lord of the Rings. The story is the weakest part of the series. It builds up and is based on what is portrayed as a super villain character but the same person is never really shown throughout the entire series. It seems that the massive efforts of the heroes seem really pointless since you don't get an exact idea of what their actual motivation is? This series cannot be put in the league of Star wars. I think its safe to assume that most fans of this series are less than 15 years of age.