Forget all precedents: this is unlike anything you have ever seen...

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2001)

I went seeing 'The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' yesterday during a special midnight premiere. And it's hard seeing a 3-hour movie starting at 0.30. But it kept my attention away from fatigue...
'The Fellowship' is a masterpiece... Peter Jackson is a great choice since he apparently honors the novel...
So I am not going to tell you what this movie is like in detail: just go see it for yourself.
The CGI is amazing. Gollum (or what you see of him) is very realistic and so are the monsters, sets, backgrounds, battles. The make-up and costumes are breathtaking, so is the attention for detail, like Arwen's elf-language, props and the detail of the story. The actors are perfectly casted especially Wood as Frodo and McKellen as Gandalf. Teh scenery is diverse and suiting the novel.
I have only one complaint which is the sudden end of the movie. I know I was seeing it for 3 hours but I can't believe I have to wait one full year to see how it continues. This might be a spoiler but the endiing is rather abrupt... there is no climax or anything whatsoever. I would have preferred (THIS IS A SPOILER!) that the movie stopped when Frodo was holding his ring (right after Boromir died), tears in his eyes saying something like: "I wished I never found this ring"...