*applauds harder

Thank you friend.

Have to agree. I'm gen X and most of my gen loves 'em. I've always personally loved fantasy & science fiction. But both times I tried struggling my way through LotR it was like reading a dry, bland history textbook written my an academic in love with his own navel.

I also love Peter Jackson, but give me Brain Dead over any of the LotR films. They're pretty, but BORING.

It's been my experience that LOTR is something you either like or dislike.

My sister completely agrees. She has watched the first one..

Or.. half of it, and fell asleep.

Or so she claims. Meanwhile she has watched a movie like "The abyss" a few times, which is also 3ish hours long

The lotr movies to have their fair share of uninteresting scenes.. personally i hate all scenes with gollum. And the last time i watched the movies i skipped all the scenes with him.. he is annoying and takes up the whole scene with his annoying drunk-kermit voice. I hate it so much.

Everything else about the movies are great. And i appreciate the use of practical effects rather than shitty cgi

Give the extended versions a shot!!!

I think if I hadn’t read the Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy previously in high school, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the movies. Seeing the characters in the flesh forming the fellowship was one of the most epic movie moments ever for me.

I read the rings trilogy preceded by the Hobbit as a teenager. Then did it again in my late 20s. I hate the movies. They drag on. The effects are lackluster. The acting is mediocre and not believable. That said I have no patience for cinema. My favorite movie is Big Trouble in Little China. I am not the target demographic for the rings movies. Someone likes 'em, and that's fine.

#metoo

Man, all the comments in here about the "boring" songs and poetry … do yourself a favour and don't ever even consider reading works like, oh, I don't know, practically anything by Goethe, Schiller, or Shakespeare. Or from the other side of the world, the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Or that Indian epic Mahabharata.

They're not for short attention spans.

I agree. The first little bit is okay, but then it’s two and a half hours of D-minor synthesizer droning and a lot of panicked faces and screaming. Tedious and exhausting for nothing.

Feh. Bah. The books are great, though.

I felt this way for a long, long time, and I mostly still agree, but I love the universe.

I loved the animated Hobbit from the 80s and I highly enjoyed the Amazon Rings of Power series though, so I think there is something to the universe, just these movies aren't actually good ( to me )