OH-MY-GOD!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (7 December 2001)

I have seen Peter Jackson's vision of Middle-Earth. It is beyond everything I ever wanted it to be. And then some. Having read the books several times, I was hoping for this film to be a candidate to my all time favorites. Now it is.
I've been following the production of these movies for a long, long time now. On my computer, I have those storyboard-drawings from long back, that was shown on NZTV. You all know; the one with Gimli, an axe and the other with a hobbit looking scared into the camera. I remember when Miramax wanted to make just two movies. I remember the first geeks seeing Sean Connery in Wellington, instantly screaming `Gandalf spotted in Wellington'. I remember a photo of a constructing-worker digging hobbitholes. I remember when Ian McKellen signed, to much relief. My room is covered with the posters for the movie: Frodo holding the Ring, looking anxiously at us, looking down The Pillars of Argonath towers over my desk. I have a wall covered with photos from the film My room is a Geeks' confessing to his love for Middle-Earth. And yesterday I went there.
And OH-MY-GOD! This is one of the best films ever! I do not want to spoil anything for those who haven't read the books, but I promise you; this is one movie you will never forget! The casting is superb, almost to perfect to be true. Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Sean Been, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin etc. They are all great!! The effects are stunning and "invicible", the editing-costumes-make up-music-EVERYTHING is put together beyond expectations. Look at the clothes Bilbo is wearing, listen to the music after the Balrog has done its' business, watch the editing in the Nazgul-Bree sequence. But above all, the cinematrography is extraordinary. Andrew Lesnie's camera is everywhere and it makes you wonder: "How the ¤%¤&"#& did they get a camera in that position?" The directing, the script, the rest of the GOD DAMN stuff is so good! I can't wait to get back in the theatre, to get back to Middle-Earth.
I love the last scene, I love when Gandalf rides thru the Shire, I love the Hobbits cocking food in the deep mountains, I love the sound the Nazguls make, I love the first vision (Yes, it is a vision) of Arwen, I love the voice of Galadriel AND I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
THANK YOU PETER!!!!
Eirik