mike-ryan455

If I told you all the ways this billion dollar piece of crap wasn't really part of the Lord of the Rings, I would have to flag it all as spoilers because it would cover most of the plot. This thing was a SHAM! Galadriel is one of the greatest characters of fantasy literature, and this abomination has committed the greatest sin of all, to make her BORING!

Instead of the wonderful, subtle growth of a character, we get the Mulan Live Action instant ultimate woman fantasy of Galadriel being the instant kick ass warrior. That is a cheat to the viewers and to girls everywhere who don't learn how to struggle and overcome.

For that much money, I would have thought they could get some better actors. The cast was definitely disappointing. I've seen worse, but not for that kind of money.

In addition, the production just looks wrong. I looked at a number of scenes and it finally hit me. They botched integrating the lighting directions of the CGI backgrounds and the live action people. Shadows run in the wrong directions. It's really obvious once you notice it. That makes everything look ludicrously amateurish, like amateur Star Trek fan video amateurish.

I really wonder where the heck that billion dollars went. It's not on screen, that's for sure.

Don't waste your time and money on this trash. Watch Peter Jackson's version instead. That had magic. The Amazon version just stinks like a turd.

I saw it, and I can't believe how horrible it is. Doomcock on YouTube channel called it right all along. I watched some other YouTube reviews after, and the fairest and most honest was by Shadiversity in "The Rise of Skywalker is TRASH of the highest order, STAR WARS full in-depth review."

This incoherent mess ruins Star Wars. I grew up with Star Wars. I remember exactly where I was when I first saw a trailer for it, and I was blown away and excited beyond belief. Luke, Han, Leah and Chewy were almost like family. This senseless, rambling mess butchered my friends and heroes. I just want to puke.

This mess will be in the bargain bin at Walmart soon enough. Don't spend the expensive ticket price. If you REALLY want to see it, wait until then.

I was watching the part on the Triassic when they showed an Aetosaur being chased by a pack of Coelophysis and they started talking about Eudimorphodon and how it took to the air as they showed a huge pterosaur overhead and I looked at the show and turned and said "That's not a Eudimorphodon! It's a Quetzalcoatlus." This isn't a subtle distinction and really told what was wrong with the whole show. Even an armchair paleontologist like me knows that Quetzalcoatlus dates to the very end of the Cretaceous while Eudimorphodon dates to the Triassic, 220 million years ago. That's about 150 million years in between. Quetalcoatlus was long necked, toothless, nearly tailless and had a really long, pointed beak. Eudimorphodon means "true dimorphic tooth" because they had a huge mouth of very distinctive teeth. They also have short necks and long tails.

It's not just a matter of making one mistake. The whole show was obviously made by someone who didn't know dinosaurs. They just downloaded some 3d models, loaded them in Blender and called it good without getting any scientists to check it. Of course the results are really lame. I could go on and on but what's the point? They made it too cheaply and didn't fix their mistakes.