It's DEFINITELY not "horrible"

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

If you have read the story, perhaps 2 or 3 or 4 times, you knew, going in, that it could NOT be a fully faithful retelling of the book itself. Nope. Can't doit. Nuh-uh. Hell, even if you haven't actually read the books you've seen those ubiquitous 6-inch-thick gift-paks and you know it.
So then the problem is how do you keep that feel and that familiarity and that pull of the story in the 2.5 - 3 hours you got to tell it. And feel like you wouldn't have p***ed off Professor Tolkien.
Well, you do it like like this. Jackson has left in the same feel that the book gives although it is a decidedly 21st century telling. At the end of the movie I still felt I had been through one surprise, struggle, dismay, hope, disappointment after another until finally, at the end, I was left hanging with uncertainty and a ravenous need for the next book.
When' s Two Towers coming out? Can ya buy your tickets yet?