Horrible

Rating: Null/10 (15 February 2004)

Wow this movie reeeeally sucks. I'm not some Tolkein hater, and i wasn't a Jackson hater until i saw this movie. I've read all of Tolkeins books, the trilogy, all the books of lost tales, the simarillion, all of them. ROTK sucked. It has ruined the books for me. Peter Jackson was one of the worst possible directors there could of been. He has no idea how to tape a fight scene. All you see is 10 people at a time, when there is thousands of people fighting. One thing i loved about the books so much was how you felt you were in a whole new world, with all different races, citizens, and it has a past. I didn't get that at all with the movie. It went in to some of the cities and races, like the southrons, easterlings, and the troops from minas morgul, the city of the dead, but no one even understood it. You can ask almost anyone who the battle of pelenor fields was between, and they will say gondor and Mordor...are you aware Mordor wasn't even in that battle? They didn't do anything until they were killed at the black gate. One more thing, it had no character element. No one knows anything about Legolas, except for that he is an elf. Same with Gimli, and nearly every other character. I wouldn't care if they died. I can't even look at the books anymore without laughing about what a disaster the movie was. The 1st and 2nd were ok, but the third one was plain out horrible. Jackson tried to turn the Lord of the Rings into some cool new thing, and that's just not what it is.