Many Problems, But It was a Fun Movie.

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2003)

Just saw it... I'm tired as hell now.
The film begins as young Golleum(still in human appearance) fishing on the bat with his friend. His friend catches a big fish and gtes drawn into the water.. there the innocent friend(like Sam to pathetic Frodo) finds a ring in the water. Golleum sees it, kills a friend and takes it from him. Cut to Golleum with two hobbits on the journey... now digitally animated... I know from the moment I saw first few minutes the film was going to be a dumb crap, like the first two installments.
Too long- easily cut to half yet missing some key personnels(Solomon... "The Villain" in the first two who never died on "The Two Towers"- what the hell happened to him? Too much downtime. Break after each battle- don't be chilling like you are on vacation, Aragon! And why did he let ghosts leave after the first battle? Let them take care of the last one, too! But Peter Jackson... his obsession with those zombie looking characters were certainly there. good work, I love ya Pete!
MVP- Eowyn(Miranda Otto), killing one of them superdragons and dark lords like she's the strongest human being in the film.?She should be the Queen instead of Aragon becoming the king. And Sam... saving loser Frodo's p*ssy a number of times- a true hero. Yet Frodo gets all the credits- don't understand.
Villains. Big oalks were cool, but elephants.. I like elephants, don''t slay them! And those human(more precisely, Turkish looking skin headed) looking villains. is this film a racist. I guess fantacy movie can do whatever so 99% of cats can be whites and still pass. I'm not mad.
Finally the ending.. it keeps going on and on. never seen such a long deneument in films before.
Despite all the problems, this trilogy is definitely setting a landmark to film history- better or worse. It should win all the awards. They are just awards, after all, especially Golden Globe and Academy... such jokes.