A piece of Crap!

Rating: Null/10 (22 December 2001)

I feel insulted. Truly.
But hold on a second: I'm not going to compare the film with the book, as many tolkien-fans like myself might do. You see, to me is extremely hard to give an objective opinion on the film, since it is almost my sworn duty to defend the name and pride of the chronicles from the Red Book; the telling of the End Of The Third Age... (in other words, that I've loved the book ever since the first time I read it, many years ago). The idea of a GOOD LordOfTheRings movie was so exciting to me that I bought the tickets days before the opening, awaited each trailer eagerly, sat nervously in the cinema expecting the film to bring tears to my eyes as the book did. Yes, I was a hardcore fan of The Lord Of The Rings. Until I saw it.
It is unfair that a jerk like Peter Jackson got the responsability of adapting the book. It is a bad adaptation because it is disrespectful. How? The film is so strongly based on the marketing gimmicks of blockbuster filmmaking, that it overlooks the dramatic greatness of the book it's supposed to homage. Did he really think that after such a long movie he would know what the "public wanted"? What the film needed to "be a hit"? The happy end of The Lord of The Rings is absurd! The Fellowship of the Ring ends in disaster, with the fellowship dissolved. No happy end can turn that into a hollywood smash. Darn that Peter Jackson...!