IT JUST BLOODY RULED!!!! IT WAS AMAZING!!! (it has some minor spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2001)

Ok let the fun begin! :-)) As I said the movie ruled! It was like if someone took Tolkien's book and made perfect images out of it and scrolled them in front of a big screen with narration! Everything was perfect!
Rivendell was just as I had imagined it. Hobbiton was as it was described in the book! Isengard (yeap that's an addon in the movie - a very good addon imo) was perfect! All the places where so close to Tolkien's descriptions that you could actually feel they were true. One who has read the book won't be disappointed, actually he will say as I said: That was the book in graphic novel format :-)
The characters in matter of appearance where also just like if they were taken out of the pages of the book. When I saw Aragorn in Bree, dressed in the dark green cloak, smoking his big pipe and having a huge mug of ale in front of him it was just like reading the paragraph in the Fellowship of the Ring (in chapter Strider) describing us for the first time that amazing hero. Legolas and Gimli where perfect also. Both of them dressed and equiped according to the book. The hobbits, Boromir, everyone was perfect. But imo the ones who where the peak of the show where Galadriel and the Wizards!
Blanchett was just Galadriel. McKellen and Lee were just Gandalf and Saruman. So close, that one thinks they were raised to play those parts in their life.... Oh and Gimli's Axes ruled! Especially the bloody huge one he holds in the last Battle next to river Anduin (where the Orcs and Uruk Hai atack and steal Pippin and Merry). Gimli was indeed a perfect dwarf!!!
As for the acting and charater impersonation in general... well here one could have his obections. Characters where more humans than in the book. For instance Gandalf, Aragorn and elrond are always concerned in the book but there is never an implication that they don't know what to do. They rarely question their desicions or stand thinking "ok what's next?". In the movie all characters are in agony and fear, they seem like they want to rush, to do whatever possible even though they are not sure. Not a bad aspect for the movie imo (it made you feel the chase, the importance of the problems they were dealing with). However it sometimes allianated me from the film.

Those who have read the book and loved it, will feel at home. It's Tolkien feeling 100%. But what about those who don't know the actual story? Well here there might be some problems. Although everything is being explained as much as possible, there are some things left deliberately in the dark, else the movie would be over 4 hours. A viewer with no contact with Tolkien's books will see an amazing scenery with a good dark fairy tail story, but he will propably won't understand exactly what he is watching. He will be thrilled as if he was watching Braveheart or the Titanic, he will be enchanted by the photography and the scenery but he won't be able to understand everything from the movie.However propably he won't notice that as he will be already captured by the action and the power of that movie.
I could go on and on and on talking about the Lord of the Rings. But I will stop here since I have to work a bit :-P. In overall the movie was great, it will be a blockbuster, it will be the new king of the Cinema and it will propably sweep the Oscars :-) DON'T MISS IT!!! :-))
Cybertroll
PS: Oh I forgot to talk about the amazing soundtrack! Perfect binding with the scenery!!! :-)))