Why is a fantastic adaptation? I know why.

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2002)

I've read various reviews and got to the conclusion that Tolkien fans love the movie, but complain very much at saying it wasn't very much like the book, and some other people say that the characters have no development.
Well, thank got it doesn't, because even though the movie only hasÂ…what? Half the book? In the script, its three hours long. If the movie was just like the book, we would have a six hour long movie, slow, boring, and without very action sequences. For example, one of my favourite scenes is the one that shows Gandalf and Saruman fighting with magic at the Palantir room. That scene does not exist in the book, at all. Instead, we have twenty minutes log monologue where Gandalf explains his experiences at Orthanc, and that is good literaly, but nor visually. This movie is fantastic, the action is so good that I was amused I had been sitting there for three hours, and disappointed it had ended. The performances are great, the New Zealand `places' are just beautiful, the camera angles are Jackson's great direction, the visual effects so real and the story incredible and original.
I love the way they showed Galadriel, and I fell in love with Arwen adn her original participation in the novel. I like the idea of strong women that are very feminine. I believe it shall became a classic. I trust in it. 9 and a half out of ten. The hell, 10 out of 10. Way much better than A Beautiful Mind.