Seriously Overrated

Rating: 1/10 (8 March 2005)

OK. Lord of the Rings is an amazing book. I agree. The story is incredibly well told. What it just seems to me is that everyone wants to love this movie so much. Everyone wants it to be the best movie they have ever seen and therefore they vote it to that position. Has anyone really sat down and looked at the cinematography? What is so amazing? Whwat is so groundbreaking? It tells a decent story...based on a story that is already great. I mean King Arthur was terrible and that is a great story so I guess there is something to be said for LOTR. Bur really. I mean The Matrix (original) brought so much more to film than LOTR will ever bring. The Wachoski's bring amazing cinematography with great writing and a great story that is not already someone else's. Not to say there is anything wrong with remaking a great story into a movie, just that it doesn't bring anything new to the table. I agree that these films are good. I enjoyed them. However, that doesn't mean that they are great cinema. They are not. They are great entertainment. Period. For this movie to be rated so highly on IMDb just shows that this forum is not for people who really pushing the bounds of film making but only for those who like what is considered to be a blockbuster. The Matrix was not a blockbuster, although it was rated highly, but many other films are not. If the Harry Potter movies were made 30 years after they were then I feel that they would get this same reaction. I mean really think about that. If these films were made right after the books had come out and when they were just popular, would the movies have been as successful? No. They wouldn't have been. They would have been regarded the same way HP is. They would not have been given the Oscars etc. It just makes me sad that people don't look at the art of cinematography in the movies anymore. Many writers have written great stories that can be told in many mediums, but I feel that something extra needs to be added other than just tons of special computer battle scenes to make a movie great. This movie is not great. It is far from it. It is a mediocre telling of a great story, and although the battle scenes are phat as hell, the rest of the movie, including Orlando Bloom's atrocious acting are a disgrace to it. An 8.8 is much to overrated for this pop-culture infested excuse for cinema.