I do not understand why this movie is so loved

Rating: 5/10 (15 March 2002)

The Fellowship of the Ring is praised by most critics and nominated for several Academy awards including Best Picture. I have no idea why.
This movie is visually stunning with great special effects and beautiful scenery but there is few other things worth watching in this movie. The drama and suspense in this movie is corny and predictable. I don't pride myself in predicting movies but there were several scenes that followed the stereotypical hollywood action movie routine. The Fellowship (group of the good guys with the ring) has to get themselves out of several bad situations on their quest. Instead of solving these problems in an unpredictable interesting fashion they just give some of the characters an invincible superhero complex and easily fight their way out. The drama that is in this movie is no different than the predictable formula the rest of the movie follows. Parts of this movie that are supposed to make me cry just made me laugh. One scene at the end of the movie when one of the characters dies seems to drag on for 20 minutes.
Even the cute little joke occasionally thrown in this movie was never funny. The acting in this movie was ok I guess. Elijah Wood was good. I like Ian Mckellan but in the beginning of this movie when he was trying to set up the plot he mumbled a lot and he was hard to understand. I give this movie a 4 out of 10 at best. This movie was not that good and certainly doesn't deserve to be #2 on IMDB's top 250 list.