I gave LoTR another chance last night...
I figured "hey, a lot of people seem to really love these movies.....I didn't see anything special when I watched Fellowship, I'll go ahead and watch both movies tonight....maybe I just missed the magic the first time"
So I popped in Fellowship of the Ring.....with plans on watching my two towers dvd directly afterward. This story just can not interest me. I watched....and watched....not caring about anybody....and watched.....taking notes of the story so I could recall the past events when I watched Two Towers........then, I'll be damned if I didn't fall asleep when the fellowship enters the cave. I never even made it past the first movie.
That's it, I'm done with it. It takes a certain type of person to watch these films. You have to be really into the whole wizard/elf/goblin mystic/fantasy genre to get into these movies. I've tried twice and I just can't get interested in them.
I own Fellowship of the Ring dvd........and it can't even keep my interest enough to keep me awake. I own the Two Towers dvd and have still never watched it. I can't get past the first one. My wife (who bought the dvds) tells me the second one is better and has more action.....but I'll be damned if I'll ever see it because I can't make it through the first one.