pure movie critique

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2003)

i for one did not read any of the LOTR books. what i know about the series is what little i read of The Hobbit four long years ago. so going into the movie theatre i had the benefit of not knowing anything other than jrr tolkien had written the original story! i had the best time watching it. compared to my friends who had read FOTR recently i enjoyed it better. i didn't nitpick about details because it's really hard to nitpick about something i didn't know anything about. my only complaint is that i didn't really follow the story what with the names and such. actually that's not entirely true. the visual FX of the movie just really blew me away. the middle part of the movie was a little less exciting compared to the rest of the movie. i was by no means bored but it was definitely less action packed. but the last scene just drew my right back. i couldn't believe the movie was over! but then again the movie wasn't exactly over...there are just 2 one-year intermissions!