BEST PICTURE OF ALL TIME???!!!

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2003)

Yes, it was good, yes it was the "technical" cinematic achievement of all time, but to say that this deserves best pic or that it rates with the other great film trilogies? Come on!! This was a pretentious, manipulative, self serving project of a director who got lost in the technology afforded to him. There were few truly engaging moments and whenever things got slow, the movie would simply resort to showing some beautiful landscape or a marching procession or a long drawn out battle scene.( I think there were eleven or twelve of these). Movies are not supposed to be non-stop slide shows. This was just a big oooh and ahhh fest. And by the way, to say that I didn't like it because I didn't read the books is NOT an argument. New Line can pat themselves on the back but don't put this movie in the same breath as "Star Wars", "Godfather" or "Indiana Jones". Get a grip everyone!!