So I watched Lord of the Rings for the first time and....

[Aegon]

....my god is it boring. I barely finished the first one but wanted to get through the trilogy. I fell asleep halfway through the second and gave up. Can somebody explain the big deal about these movies? Frodo is boring, Gandalf basically creates deus ex machinas in the form of birds and, uh, coming back from the dead, Sean Bean's death was both expected and not emotional in the slightest.....I don't know. Any time there's CGI I can't take the movie seriously (see: Gandalf vs giant black death demon thing with a whip lol)

I probably disliked them so much because I hate fantasy. I know, I know, I'm a Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones buff, but the reason I like ASOIAF is because it's fantasy if it were a little more realistic. Maybe Tolkein was the one who created all the fantasy tropes, but I just hated watching it. It's funny because I actually watched The Hobbit in theaters, which people claim was way worse than any of the LotR movies, but I actually found the Hobbit films to be the better made films. I don't know why the LotR films are held in such high esteem. I'll give credit to the originality of the story, but that's the books not the films. The films just aren't particularly amazing like everyone made them out to be