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Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2003)

spoilers! (like anyone cares)
This movie is one major masterpiece and I'm glad I've seen it (7 times). This is what I liked about it:

The batlescenes are realy intence. They keep you on the edge of your seats.

The special efects are made with great care and you can't realy see most of them cuz they are imported so smoothly. Yet they tend to show off sometimes (camera following the arrow of Legolas in Moria), but not as nearly as this happened in Star Wars. This movie's efects will not ware off so quickly as they did in Star Wars becose they are not used in souch an obvious way.

Most of the changes to the plot were done proffesionaly and with taste.

The music has been done wery well and it blends into the movie most of the time. I was realy suprised by the choise of the black riders theme (not bad).

The casting was made better than I thought it would be. Picking the actors that are not known by the most of audience was a great move (since it would be harder to concentrate on the characters and there would be always someone it the theater saying "Look, it's ***** *****!"). They all did a nice job.

PJ was epic in his painting the relationships betwean the characters (but I'm so sick and tired of idiotic people asking "Is Frodo gay?")

The details in the "background" are the things that makes this movie great. I only discovered the trolls that have been turned to stone (from Hobbit) in my 7th watching (you can see them when the party stops to get medicine for Frodo's wound). Did you notice that everyone is wearing an elvish cloak when they leave Galadriel?

Did you see Peter Jackson in Bree!?

This is what I didn't like:

Some changes to the Midlearth, like making people think that Shire is made out of Hobbiton, a road and some fields.

Legolas and the rest of the elves are not done well. Elves in the book like singing, joking and laughing. We just don't see that in Legolas.

The dwarves are made too funny and I don't like that.

The counsil at Rivendell is made 7h and 45 minutes too short (I don't mean the screening time).

There's 15 minutes of boaring scenes (I didn't know should I put this into positive or negative).

The Bree has been made too dark and unpleasent, and also lacked the hobbits that live there.

I don't like Arowen's character being so important.

After viewing this film for more times than any other I give this movie a solid 7/10....just kidding ;-) the only score that fits for this movie is 11/10