This movie is terrible.

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2003)

I don't understand how many users are heralding this film as the greatest of all time. It's filled with horrible dialogue, gaping plot holes and melodrama. This isn't a good movie, its just an expensive one. Without the expensive special effects, there would be nothing at all to compliment this movie on.
Major spoilers follow:
The Ents: Theres no end to the problems I had with the ents. First off, where the hell did they all come from when Treebeard shouted. Were there a hundred Ents waiting on the other side of the trees? And if so, why was Treebeard so shocked when he saw how many trees had been cut down. Shouldn't news of something like that have spread amongst the ents fairly quickly? If a large chunk of your town got blown up I'm sure the news would get around.
Gimli: So how tall is Gimli exactly? Because the movie changed its mind several times throughout. At one point he was a head shorter than Legolas but the battlement scene had him significantly shorter than that simply for the sake of a joke. Jokes are another problem I had with Peter Jackson's use of Gimli. That's ALL he was used for, comic relief. Nearly every second of screen time that Gimli had was supposed to be funny. Why didn't they just give him a clown costume.
This isn't the greatest movie of the year and it certainly isn't the greatest of all time yet for some reason its fighting for first on the top 250. Every time I ask someone why they thought it was a great movie I get mostly the same answers. "The special effects were great!" Yes, they were but special effects alone dont make a good movie. If you handed anyone three hundred million dollars I'm sure they could make a movie with good special effects but not neccesarily a good film.