Is everybody blind?!?!

Rating: 6/10 (29 June 2002)

I just saw this movie rank third in the top 250 movies of all-time, and steam came out of my ears. Who are these people that rate the worst movie released this year so highly? I will tell you who they are. They are people who have read the book a quadrillion times, and love it so much that they are unable to see this movie for the horror that it is. The book may be great, I wouldn't know because I haven't read it, but as a movie it sure bites! Yes, it's beautifully made. Yes, it does the book justice in the representation of it's characters. Bla bla bla. But you cannot fill three (3!!!) hours of a movie with a story that could be told in just one! The horrendously slow pace and ever lingering storytelling made me want to pull my hair out after the first hour! And to imagine they are going to make two more of these monsters... The mind boggles how ones vision can become so clouded by memories that this film actually becomes good. Same sort of story with the Matrix, but I've told that to a lot of deaf ears already, so I'll stop now.
Sweat dreams...