The movie is terrible.

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2001)

I'm a die-hard Lord of the Rings fan. I read the books for the first time over 30 years ago. I've read it over 50 times - including once out loud to my daughter when she was a little girl. I was very, very excited about seeing the movie. However, it turned out to be a major disappointment. Actually, it's much worse than that - I'm heartbroken. They cut an incredible amount of stuff, added a bunch of garbage that Tolkien never wrote and significantly changed many of the parts that they did see fit to leave in. At least I don't have to worry about seeing the next two - this one is so bad that there is no way I would ever go to see the next ones. I'd pay money to avoid seeing the next two and double to get out of the theater if I entered by mistake!