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Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2004)

Okay, I've seen all 3... and read all 3 books a long time ago. After seeing the glowing reviews on this board, I weep for the future of movie-making. Does this really qualify as a movie? I didn't see a whole lot of acting, just wooden looking people in front of blue screens reciting lines. Question: why can't the camera stand still? In every sweeping CGI panorama, the director seems to have a hidden agenda of making the audience seasick. The plot of the movie is incomprehensible. (All of my comments on this movie apply equally to the first 2). I'm not sure why I went to see this movie. Mainly because everyone else kept saying it's the greatest movie ever made. Gollum: Okay, they have the voice down. But we're watching a cartoon character. Maybe one day they'll make CGI so we can't notice it's CGI. But why do I think that's a long way off? Just look at Gollum's unnatural blue eyes, the eyes that don't match the rest of his body. Or the way he moves, like Newton's second law doesn't quite apply. Of course that's true with all CGI. But how can... gaaa, I give up. I just hope I can erase the memories of these movies, and go back and enjoy the books. And I hope to god he doesn't make a Hobbit movie. That was such a good, lighthearted fantasy ditty... I can only imagine the travesty they'd make of that.