Wonderful movie but read the book

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2001)

Is the movie as good as the book, no of course not, but it's a wonderful movie nevertheless. I think only a professional sourpuss would fail to find magic in this film, however I'm willing to forgive professional movie critics for panning it, they're more or less obligated to give a negative review to anything that universally popular. As I said a movie can never be as good as a great book but a great movie can be made from a mediocre book, just look at "The Godfather" or "Gone With The Wind", that gives me hope that it might just be possible that "Lord Of The Rings" will turn out to be a great film.