OH MY GOD!!!!! (slow motion sucks)

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2003)

What on earth are all you people praising this movie as the perfect ending and better than the first three talking about?
For the record, I really liked the first two so I am not just a hater. I won't even complain about elements left out of the movie that were in the book.
The main problem with this film is that apparently director Peter Jackson has grown an enormous ego with the success of the first two films. Apparently he felt the need to make this finale even more epic than the first two films (the although the story is already quite epic enough). He decides to do this in an enormous number of ways. Let's see.....he uses slow motion, and then um....yeah he uses slow motion, and oh wait....he also uses slow motion. My god!!! I have never seen such unimaginative directing. The movie could have easily been only 2 hours had all these slow-mo scenes been played in real time. Slow motion at certain points in the story can be effective. Overuse is clearly detrimental to the flow of the story.
My other main issue with the third installment was the infusion of simply awful one-liners throughout. "I am no woman!" and almost anything Sam said from what I can remember (which is probably less than I should as I had to start tuning out the stupid things half the people were saying).

Now to be fair the movie wasnt awful. I mostly liked it. But these problems took away from what was largely a successful ending. Again, I attribute it to the director trying to be epic with the repeated use of childish editing techniques when the story itself was epic enough.
Definitely a bad ending.
SLOW MOTION SUCKS