Simply amazing!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2001)

I've been waiting for this movie a long time now. After seeing the trailers and commercials, I just HAD to see this movie. After seeing it, it's all I can think about. I'm thinking about the battle scenes, the breathtaking scenerey, the story, but most of all, the characters. The characterization was so good that they were almost actual people you cared about. For those 3 hours, I wasn't watching a movie - I was transported to Middle Earth and actually witnessed this breathtaking drama right before my very eyes!!! Was the movie perfect? Of course not. No movie is. There is always something that could have been done better in one's opinion. Notwithstanding, LOTR has come as close to perfection has I have ever seen. I am amazed at how this Peter Jackson has come out of nowhere to create perhaps the greatest movie spectacle of all time (I am referring to the trilogy as a whole). I didn't think it could be done. How could a Hollywood outsider have the skill, genius, and infrastructure to create what Hollywood only aspires to be? The wait for Two Towers is going to be agonizing. I guess I'll just have to watch FOTR again and again. Actually, I'll be going back tomorrow with my brother. Boy, is he going to be in for a run ride.

12/10