Could we have some editing and character development please?

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2002)

I admit, I never read the books, and I'm not a huge fan of the "Fantasy" genre. That being said, if you didn't already know the characters when you walked in, you weren't going to know them any better when you left, 3 HOURS LATER! Granted, the images and cinematography were impressive, but why not just hire real small people to play the Hobbits? Didn't anyone else notice that the visual effects of the actors sizes were done just well enough to keep you off balance, so you weren't quite sure what the relative size of the characters was? What's the point of that?
All in all, 3 long, tedious, slightly visually interesting but otherwise annoying hours spent with a bunch of characters I don't know or care about, who managed to accomplished very little in that time. There's no way they're getting another 3 hours out of me.