Personal feelings about this film

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2001)

I thought this film was especially interesting. A friend of mine loaned me "The Hobbit" before the movie came out, so that I could read it and understand what was going on. The book moved rather slowly for me and after a week I stopped reading it. I went to see the movie with the friend who loaned me the book...
It was an amazing movie, a friend asked me afterward if I'd thought it was good. "Good?" I said, "No, it wasn't good." "really?" they asked. "Yeah Really, It was amazing. The best movie I've ever seen" I told them. And I hold to that.
This movie was so good that I have a renewed interest in reading the books. I usually don't like seeing movies twice in the theatre but I'm going to see this again, and again and again. When it comes out on DVD I'll be one of the first people to buy it. I can't wait.
And for all the critics out there that raked it over for not following the book by the letter, you have to understand that its hard to take a 300+ paged book and make it into a movie, I'm glad they took the time to make it three hours though, it helped, a lot. It's better than cutting it so short you can't follow the story line.
Also as a side note, I must say that actor Orlando Bloom who plays Legolas Greenleaf, an elf, in the movie was exeptionally good, not to mention gorgeous. He is very attractive. Thought I'd just mention that. Hehehe