One of the best ever

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2010)

An ancient ring that was once believed to be lost, has now been found by a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. On his "eleventy-first" birthday, Bilbo leaves to go live with the elves, and gives the ring to another hobbit, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). However, Gandalf (Ian McKellen) is concerned about the ring, and he sends Frodo and Sam Gamgee (Sean Astin) on a trip, and tells them to meet him at the "Prancing Pony". But when Gandalf does not show, a wounded Frodo, Sam, a few friends they picked up along the way, and a ranger, Aragon (Viggo Mortensen) end up in the city of the elves, where they are called to a meeting concerning the ring. Soon after, Frodo and his companions are sent off on a journey to Mount Doom, to destroy once and for all the one ring.
The story to The Fellowship of the Ring was absolutely creative like none other that I have ever seen. This move, and series, is definitely my favorite of any type of fantasy film. Even though I often here the Harry Potter series being compared to this, and even sometimes thought more highly of, I honestly think this series was by far in every way superior to Harry Potter. The special effects in this film were incredible, some of the best I have ever seen, and Peter Jackson did just a phenomenal job with this film. I hardly ever see both a book, and a movie this good nowadays. Also, This film series probably has the title for my favorite musical score in film history.
This film has one of the best casts I have ever seen in my life. The casting was done perfectly in my opinion, not one mistake. Elijah Wood for Frodo was fantastic, Sean Astin on the part of Sam left me speechless. Sam Gamgee is to me one of the greatest characters in film history, and Sean Astin was unbelievable playing him in this film. Ian McKellen was no doubt deserving of the Oscar he was nominated for, and Viggo Mortensen was superb. All in all this was some of the best acting I have ever seen.
Overall, I found the Fellowship of the Ring to be a moving movie, and it is in my opinion one of the best films of the entire decade.