More of the Same

Rating: 2/10 (12 April 2015)

This is the middle movie about Middle Earth, whatever that is supposed to be. Is there an Upper and Lower Earth, a Right and Left Earth, or what?
Anyway, as I watch the hobbits still on their mission to get the ring somewhere to do something with it, I cannot help but wonder why someone doesn't just make another ring, if they want one so badly. I mean, what one person did once, surely another person could do again. I'm sure there is some perfectly good, unbelievable reason why other evil rings cannot be made, but I am frankly past caring, because it has been six hours now, and I am really tired of it all.
Especially wearying is the relentless epic-speak employed by almost everyone in the movie, which has made me sick of hearing the preposition "of." These people could never say something like, "We need to go through the Lincoln Tunnel" or "We'll have to cross the Golden Gate Bridge." They would have to say, "We must pass through the Tunnel of Lincoln" or "We must cross over the Bridge of the Gate of Gold." And even when they say something that might look like normal dialogue when written on paper, the characters utter all their lines gravely and ponderously, as if everything they say is of the deepest significance.
An exception to this is Sam, Frodo's companion. He actually talks normally. As a result, he became my favorite character, the one I most wanted to hear from. And when he made his speech about the goodness of the world being worth fighting for, it had more effect on me than anything else said in the movie, because it was spoken naturally. Furthermore, Sam's face is easier to take than Frodo's look of angelic innocence. I wish Sam had the ring, and one of the other hobbits were his sidekick, leaving Frodo out of the story altogether.