My favorite movie

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2011)

I remember one cold day when I came home from skiing in December 2001. At the moment I had entered to our house, my mom said to me that we are going to movies. I was a bit surprised, because usually we did not go to movies too often back then. She said the name of the movie, but it didn't ring any bell. I did not even get the chance to change my clothes, they clearly had been waiting for me. We went to movies together by our old -87 Mitsubishi Lancer - my mom, me, my brother and my cousin. The reason why I remember that day so well is that it changed my life literally forever. I was 11 years old.
When we arrived at the movietheatre I saw the poster. There was this young man with curly hair, looking down to his hand in which he held a golden ring. I thought this wasn't very promising. There were really many people in the theatre waiting. This was very unusual, because we lived in small town and usually there was like 30 people in one viewing. But that day the theatre was full - all 302 seats. I thought this must be some big blockbuster film, which it of course was.
And then the film started playing. The very first scenes of the film impressed me, and the movie took me away with it. I found the movie very fascinating. The story was so good I had never before seen anything like it. Sure I had seen Star Wars films, but I didn't like them when I was 10 and I do not like them now either. When the movie ended I was totally speechless. I couldn't take my eyes of the screen. I had just seen something that made me to want direct movies. Immediately the next day after I had seen the film I borrowed Lord of the Rings -trilogy from the library and read it in two weeks (not bad for an 11-year-old in my opinion). Few days later I went to see the movie again. After that I went to see it again, so I saw it 3 times in movietheatre.
To this day, I have seen The Fellowship of the Ring about 25 times. I love this movie so much I can watch it again and again and again. The two sequels for it were to me almost as good as the first one, and I've seen them as many times as the FotR. Usually I watch them in a row. The extended editions are of course the versions I prefer watching than theatrical, because the bring so much more in the movie, but since the theatrical cuts were released on Blu-ray almost a year ago, I'm always facing a hard decision which version to watch:) There are still new things I notice while watching this film, and it is actually quite rewarding after so many times. The meaning of the movie to me grows every time I watch it, and I am glad of it. I wouldn't be me as I am today this day without Fellowship of the Ring, so thank you J.R.R. Tolkien & Peter Jackson! Now you must be thinking what kind of review for the movie this is. Well, I would say this tells my personal relationship for the movie. I thought it might be more interesting to read than other dull review. I am pretty sure everyone knows what this film is about, so I'm not going to tell the story. As sure as I am about that, I also know that most of you reading this have seen all the three LOTR films already. So you do must know how perfect this movie is in every imaginable way, so I don't have to explain myself to you. Just watch it NOW if you haven't seen it yet.
The effect the movie had on me after seeing this film for the first time lasts still on me. Firstly it made me a total movie freak; I go to movies almost every weekend and usually I watch 1-3 movies/ day. The second thing is that I still want to direct movies. And to that dream I have lived to this day. At the moment I study cinematography in Finland, so there's still a long way to become a director, but I'll try and probably someday I might direct a proper movie...