feeling good

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2017)

Roger Ebert seems to have mixed feelings in his critique of "Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring." I feel as though he was a Tolkien fan who was disappointed that the movie did not capture the characters or scenes in the way that he would have liked to see them portrayed. He even tells his audience that the imagination of his Middle Earth did not match the one in the movie and that it was his problem. From the start, his critique of the film was biased because he was a disappointed fan and did not approach the movie with an open mind. For Ebert to say that the characters did not look the way he read and imagined them is purely his own opinion and gives a bad vibe to viewers who want to see the movie. Ebert thought that the movie pushed the Hobbits out of the way and that it did not follow the book's description of a Hobbit's quest. What he does not realize is that this movie cannot focus on one set of characters since you are paying multiple actors to have a substantial role. What one person reads and sees may be entirely different from the experience that another person will have. For Ebert to say that the movie went on and on is knit picking. For a 432 paged book, I would expect a good and thorough movie to be produced and to hit all of the highlights. For a three hour movie, overall it seems as if he was satisfied.