I guess nobody's gonna read this. You should, though.

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2002)

First of all I must say I did enjoy the movie. Next I must say I enjoyed it because I went to the cinema knowing that I was going to find an awful torture of the book and so I would have to concentrate in the images, the landscapes and so on and forget about Liv Tyler's role and other similar lies.
I have read some comments and most people say it's enormously great, incredibly huge, it doesn't have any defects, but from my point of view it has many; let's see:
-It isn't at all faithful to the original story in many, many aspects, of which:
*Hobbits are not almost human
*Frodo is about 50 when he departs!!!!
*Aragorn sure is also about 50!!!!
*What the hell is Liv Tyler doing there? Her character appears only about twice in the whole book, is not the one that carries Frodo to Elrond's place, there's no such thing in the book as that lousy lovie-dovie stuff with Aragorn...
*The elvish language just can't be faked. It should be the prettiest thing to the ear ever, and the magic about it is that you IMAGINE it in the book. Putting it in the film just doesn't work, people that haven't read the book don't get amazed when the characters speak that "false elvish", they just think "Are they asthmatic or something?"
*What was the need to change certain parts of the plot? Why put the Gandalf comment about Gollum ("many that live"..."even the very wise cannot see all ends"...etc) in Moria? Why should Pippin and Merry join Frodo accidentally? Why should Pippin be a Jar-Jar-Binks-like clown? How on Middle Earth can Aragorn fight against 5 Ringwraiths all alone and why doesn't he do it more often then?
*This could go on almost endlessly so it's enough

The film is EXTREMELY COMMERCIAL! No alteration of the book was necessary, but Jackson needed (for example) a love story and everyone seems to applaud his wrecking of the book...

The film pretends to be sufficient (intelligible for non readers of the original story) but has many things left unexplained, such as Legolas weighing almost nothing on the snow of Caradhras.

Peter Jackson should have made a film for each of the six books; otherwise, as you can see, he passes by lots of things of a story that is already a myth so it shouldn't be altered so deeply not ever for a screenplay.

Anyway, it's about time to say something nice, so I'll say:
-Pronunciation of names throughout the film is sooooo faithful an soooooooo cute!!!!
-Gandalf is amazing
-Moria is amazing
-Caradhras is amazing
-Lothlorien and elves are lousy (sorry, I had to!)
-What we've seen of Gollum is amazing
-Bilbo's face when he claims for an instant the ring from Frodo in Rivendell is awesome!
-New Zealand IS awesome. When shall we go there? :-)
-Hugo Weaving is the best possible choice for Elrond... anyway I was almost expecting him saying "human beings are a disease, a cancer for this planet..." anytime! XD
-Elijah does great sometimes (even though Frodo's not a kid) (but I must say shouldn't be wearing that same oh-my-god-i-dunno-wats-going-on-here-and-im-scared face throughout the film)
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