huh?

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2004)

I liked this trilogy. I did. But if you have NOT read these books, they make NO sense. I don't know anyone else in the movies but the main characters, and the only storyline I was ever able to follow was the one with Sam and Frodo as they were doing the only significant thing in all 3 of them. To me, the basic idea here was to take the one ring and put it in the fire of mount doom.
So how are many of the other things relevant? What are their purpose? I'm not going to waste time writing about all the thing that didn't make sense nor am I going to post in all 3 trilogies about it.
for example... who is this other guy (also a king) who is trying to burn his other son on the wood and oil, and where is the relevance to the rest of the movie? and the other guy (also a king) not allowing his daughter to fight, she sneeks away to do so and ends up killing the guy with no face and cool mask?
I had to ask my girlfriend what the relevance was of Aragorn becoming King. There were other kings. She said he was the king of all men... ????? who cares? this way he could bring back the dead guys to help in another insignificant fight that they were all outnumbered in again???? The girl fighting was more significant than that because as the man with no face and cool mask said "no MAN can kill me" hmmm...
If they had all just focused their energy on helping Sam and Frodo make it to Mount Doom, the rest of the stuff would have become insignificant like I thought it was anyways.
the 3rd and final chapter here... what's the deal with dragging it on for an additional 1/2 or more after the ring was tossed in the fire? Totally pointless.
Could you imagine what some great directors (and PJ is not one... he took a great story - so i've heard - and put it on film) could do with 3.5 hours + in films?
Just think what Lucas and his directors would be able to give in being able to allow much more dialogue and emphasis on storyline and back history if he could have 3.5 hours + to put it on film.