Pros:
Against:
All in all - the film will probably appeal to people who haven't read the novel and who appreciate the wonderful visual effects. For me, it is wasted money for which a masterpiece could have been created.
- Huge scale - it was meant to be.
- Attention to visual detail of environment, characters.
- The mood of solemnity.
Against:
- Ill-conceived attention to detail: someone came up with the idea that it would be fitting if the hobbits had bitten and dirty fingernails, so the camera shows those fingernails for ten minutes to let everyone see exactly how much attention to detail they were paying (this is one example among many).
- Boring and pretentious. This is supposed to be a monumental and serious story, the shots carried out with flair, but the director went "a little" overboard. Scenes that are completely irrelevant are forcefully shown as monumental and take up a boring 10 minutes (something like "They go, they go, they go, the next one goes, the next one goes, with this one looking around, they keep going, going, going...").
- Related to the above is the lack of balance of the plot: very important things from the book are omitted, unimportant things take up 3/4 of the film.
- Selection of some of the actors. Here one can write at length, I will limit myself to the least polite aspect of this problem: Several female characters in the novel are described as absolutely, wonderfully beautiful. Some of the actresses playing these roles.... Well, maybe it's a matter of taste. But it is possible to find women that EVERYONE in the world would find beautiful, there was no need to choose ones whose beauty would be appreciated by connoisseurs with a particular taste.
- The characters of some of the characters have been changed, what hurts the most is making fools of several of them.
All in all - the film will probably appeal to people who haven't read the novel and who appreciate the wonderful visual effects. For me, it is wasted money for which a masterpiece could have been created.
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