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I want my 3.5 hours back
It's not that often I find myself disagreeing with the entire world, but...
If you take Gollum and Gandolf out of the mix, there isn't a single acting performance worth watching. Everybody poses. The hobbits are constantly giving each other 'meaningful' looks, and a lot of the dialogue sounds like it came out of a fortune cookie.
About one in five of the action/effects sequences generate any emotional momentum at all. Mostly, it's like watching some incredibly elaborate table-top train set.
For some reason, all critics love it. However, one said:
"Jackson has achieved not Tolkien. He has made a cornucopian and corny hash of Tolkien, old John Martin spectacle paintings, head comix, Arthurian tales, Bob Howard macho-lit, New Zealand travelogues, Thomas Kinkade kitsch, '30s serials and the mountain films of Leni Riefenstahl, whose spirit hovers over the grand shots of relay bonfires on snowy peaks."
I loved the books as a kid. But the movies, aside from being a somewhat serviceable 'books on tape' version of some of it, have effectively erased over a lot of what I remember liking.
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