Overrated

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2004)

I cannot see how a movie that goes for at least half an hour longer than it should have, has variations between wooden acting and over-acting (ouch, what's with the crying all the time?), with almost zero character development, become one of the 'greatest movies of all time'?
Am I taking crazy pills here?
The effects are great, and the settings are quite breath-taking. Yeah, same for Lawrence of Arabia. But in that movie the script was awesome, instead of over-blown, and trying SO hard to be epic and dramatic, and the whole thing doesn't seem to go on for a whole day, even though it is long.
Maybe it's just that there's a new wave of movie watchers pouring onto this site, who haven't really seen many movies, and don't know the difference: "Gee, I've seen Scary Movie, American Pie and LOTR III... I must conclude LOTR III is the best movie ever made in the world! By a mile"!
I mean the movie's quite good. Just not that good. The Dwarf made it more bearable. "That still only counts as one!"
7/10