Good film but not amazing

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2002)

First of all let me say that I have read the books and found them good.I didn't find them amazing.
And exactly the same I can say for the film. Infact the feeling I had when I walked out of the theater was EXACTLY the same as the feeling I had when I finished the book. So I suppose you could say that the film sucseeded. It captures the book spirit perfectly. But there are a couple of things that annoyed me: 1)the most important thing that was left out was Tom Bombardil. He is very important in the book ( IMHO) since he makes you understand that not everything is like it seems , and everyone can have enourmous power( witch is one of the taglines of the film). Remember Tom was extremely powerfull , and even the Elves respected him, as he is as old as Middle Land. 2) There were allot of errors in the film. The most obvious is the donkey error.You see a donkey when they are leaving Frodos homeland,but during the journey you never see it. Then all of a suddden when they are entering the Moria Mines:" We should let the donkey go.This is no place for him". In the theater I was in there were at least 3 people around me that said something like "Huh? Where did that donkey come from?" . I think this was a MAJOR slip up.There are other slip ups too but not that 3) The moving camera during the animation got boring after 3-4 times. I thought I was in DisneyLands StarTour.
But all in all it is a fun movie , with nice fighting sequences. Especially the first 20 mins are worth the ticket.
My guess is that you will have the same feeling for the movie as the feelings you had for the book.