Not Worth the Hype

Rating: 1/10 (22 October 2017)

I see myself as an open-minded person who tries to not be judgmental about movies, especially fantastical ones like this, but I cannot be that way with this. I will never forget when I was put through the wringer with this special effects-loaded snooze fest: junior year of high school, English class. It was around that time that I got into "The Island of Dr. Moreau," which was just plain awful; "Animal Farm" and "Brave New World." My teacher at the time (God bless him, he is a great soul but sometimes I wonder about him) was very excited to have us read the book in class and then watch the movie.
It leaves pondering minds to wonder what is to like about this movie. To say that this is better than "Star Wars" is preposterous. Granted I can understand certain movies just fine, this had me scratching my head every step of the way. If you take away all of the special effects to this insanely long movie (it's Peter Jackson, who just so happens to love making movies that are upwards to 3+ hours long), you have a bunch of guys and girls (maybe two) rummaging around a green screen with no particular place to go.
Slow as can possibly be, I don't see what the draw is to this movie. You have a bunch of guys trying to protect a mysterious ring and then you have Gollum, an equally insane character who wants nothing more in the world than to claim the ring for himself. There are those who absolutely love this movie and there are those who absolutely hate it. I am one of the latter. It was truly very difficult to stay awake through a movie that has the same tired plot that will leave a lot of "LOTR" fans begging for more.
It is not surprising that this dreadful excuse of CGI even won any Academy Awards. If I recall correctly, absolutely none of them were for acting. Not one. Like I said, take away all of the CGI and the like and you have just another band of clueless actors walking around in the wilderness or on a green screen. I know that this may offend some people to read, but I'm just not into that sort of movie. They bore me almost to death.
In all fairness, I would rather watch "Star Wars." Period. Peter Jackson should honestly just quit while he's ahead.