The Greatest Movie of All Time PERIOD!

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2001)

This is the greatest movie of all time PERIOD!
Nothing even comes remotely close to this cinematic masterpiece.
The Fellowship of the Ring makes The Godfather look like a cheesy episode of Sopranos and Star Wars look like Pokemon trash.
The acting was superb, the settings amazing, and the special effects top notch. The Balrog is the greatest moment ever seen on screen in the young history of CGI.
Am sure there are few people who wont like it because its 3 hours long, but those are the type of ignorant people who like movies like scream and scary movie, and enjoy 90 minutes of trash with no character development and useful dialog. So pay no heed to those types.
This movie has Oscar written all over it.
Gollum was everything we hoped for and Liv Tyler was perfect for Arwen. The best moment of the movie aside from the Balrog was when they showed Gollum being tortured by Orcs in Mordor. Brilliant.
The Soundtrack was also superb. Chalk up another Oscar in that department.
The combat scenes were some of the best ever seen on screen, sword fighting and archery at its best. Moria was worth the price of admission alone.
My only complaint "and its a small one" is that the movie moved too fast at times. This movie really need to be 4 hours long, as lots of little things were left out from the book, and not enough time was spent in Rivendale and Lorien. Some scenes needed to be played out slower than they were. But the good news is that Jackson has promised 27 minutes of additional cut footage to be included on the Dvd this summer. This movie will just get better and better....and then next year we have part II! Pure Bliss.
Bottom line...
GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!
First timers will like it just as much as fans of the book do. Cinema does not get any better than this.
This movie is so great that is pushes Empire Strikes Back from a 9 to a 7 because ESB is not worthy enough to be one number below FoTR's 10.
10/10 Stars