Lord Of The Rings Rant

So before you LOTR nerds get all excited thinking that for some reason I will take this blog to discuss how "awesome" these movies are. I won't. I'm not a fan of the LOTR series and I probably will never be a fan. But for some reason when I mention that I do not like the series it's as if I'm calling their mother a  whole (if you catch my drift). I don't understand why people take great offence to my dislike of the movies, and then they try to tell me about all the "great" things about them to try to convince me to change my mind. As if I haven't already seen the movies, I've obviously watched the movies it's why I don't like them to begin with. It's also why I can't really say I don't like Twilight because I've never seen it (although I have no interest in watching them or reading them). And beyond just watching the LOTR movies my dad made me watch the extended versions as a marathon........ so you can obviously trust that when I say I don't like them. I don't like them. Stop trying to convert me, it won't happen.

Let me share with you the top three reasons why I don't like the LOTR series:

1. Frodo smiles three times in the whole first trilogy. To me, this is depressing, I enjoy smiling and laughing (don't be deceived I do enjoy epic and very serious movies and shows one of my top favorite shows right now is Hannibal). But for me if you can go through a whole movie (the second movie in LOTR) and have the main character never smile then why should I watch it? There is no break from the seriousness of the movie. Even Shakespeare knew that having a play continuously serious would be dull and boring after a while and included comic reliefs whereas LOTR decides to just ignore all of that and bore me to death.

2. There is so much fighting in the whole movie that I forget quite often as to why they are fighting. It seems like everywhere they go they have to kill something or someone. Lets go to the forest - kill orgers. Lets go to the city - kill people. Lets go to another wizard - kill him. It's so repetative and dull so very quickly I loose interest because I can't remember why they have to be killing so many people.

3. They walked everywhere. I wouldn't be bothered by the fact that they walked majority of the way except for the fact that there were in exsistance huge creatures that looked like elephants that could carry them a significant part of the way, or even the birds! They could have flown to the eye! And even if they couldn't be flown all the way to the eye I am sure they could have been flown a significant distance so that they were pretty close! Then BAM! Two of the LOTR movies would have been cut and Frodo would have gotten rid of the ring in the first movie.

Now don't get me wrong, I recognize how epic the series can be and I like the undertone Christian message but I just personally find the movies to be dull because of the overuse of battles. What movies are popular that you just don't like? Why?

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