I really do laoth it when people pu their opinion across but always suger coat it to make it sound like its a fact and everybody else feels the same way as them! Which is absurd.
I however respect your opinion bigar but my opinion is i love them. I have read the books and think they are gorg, and i am not blinded by the sspecial effects at all. Infact this is one of the few films that i have watched that the special effects are blended into the storylines and it seems to me at least, second rated. In answer to the long and boring bit, well yes it is long but so are the books.........and so are the Matrix films!
Now i am not dissing the matrix here but if you wont to slag off a film with a long running time and some how manipulates its viewers with special effects then you cant leave the Matrix out.
So please when you are making your opinion out, please dont use the same paint brush to brush everyone with, because not everyone is liking the LOTR films and books because the special effects etc, and not everyone who watches the matrix only watch it for the special effects! Though some strangely do

lol nevermind.
LOTR is a bit like marmite really, you either take it or leave it. Fortunately, call me stupid or pathetic or dumb, but i took it and liked it.
If you want to see a film that is REALLY overrated then i give you Pirates of the carrabien.......i mean great film but it werent THAT great lol.