i have been a hard core fan as long as i can remember, and i was dissapointed

Rating: Null/10 (14 January 2002)

ok, i first saw this movie on the grand premier, 19 december. at first as i was looking at the shire, i thought to myself, "wow, these people have done one hell of a job" but then i saw Bilbo.. first dissapoinment. ok ppl, bilbo is an old wack, the coolest you can find, but a wack, not some sentimental mushy old man... WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GUY THAT WALKED INTO SMOGS LAIR! too much crying.. ok gandalf was amazing, so was frodo, elijah wood is staggering, everything became real good again until the nazgul.. come on guys, these wraiths supposely had BLOOD CURDLING CRIES that made plants rot and flowers wirther, that made the most valiant quail, and in the movie their cries sound like a pig being slaughtered.. and they were SO wimpy! SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOLIER HERE: ok, Aragon may be Aragorn, but he's not more powerfull than the 5 nazgul!!! and another thing, what i liked in the book was the element of mystery in the fellowhip surounding Sauron and mordor... IN THE movie it showedd FAR TOO much of the eye, and talked too much about mordor! WHY OH WHY DID THEY REPLACE GLORFINDEL?? LIV TYLER WAS TERRIBLE!!! IF SHE'S A GOOD ARWEN, THEN IM MACARONI AND CHEESE!! also, too much music...it was good music, yes, but TOO excessive!! and the Council of Elrond was not a council IT WAS MORE LIKE JERRY SPRINGER!! gimli looked like a total BAFOON.. K, Boromir was amazing, Vigo was great too, actually i dont complain much about the actors....legolas was god. anywayz, generally speaking, the whole movies was too mushy, too sappy, TOLKIEN fought in the first world war, he knew better than to have everyone cry at every chance! MORIA WASNT DARK ENOUGH! i felt that it generally missed the whole essence of the books, but then again i guess that's just me.. THE ACTION SCENES were great, but ACTION DOESNT MAKE THE MOVIE!! Galadriel was a mess up, and im fairly sure that those of u that havent read the books are wondering what the hell she was tlaking about when she mentioned passing a test! THE EMOTION WAS SUPERFLUOUS, WELL PLAYED YES, GOOD ACTORS, BUT OVERPLAYED... LESS TEARS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. THESE ARE WARRIOIRS IN THE FELLOWSHIP, NOT OLD LADIES! OK im not saying remove all tears, im just saying that a little restrain would have been better...FOR INSTANCE, in the book, Gimli never cried AT BALINS TOMB!!! AND I THINK IT'S REAL DUMB TO SAY THE MOVIE'S BETTER THAN THE BOOK, FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT LORD OF THE RINGS is the book, it's tolkien's story, he wrote the book, therefore the coorect edition is what he wrote, it's his as i said. IT WASN'T BAD, IM MERELY DISSAPOINTED CUZ IM WIERD, BUT UNDENIABLY, IM SURE MOST FANS OF THE BOOK, AND OF THE SILMARILION, LOST TALES, LAYS OF BELERIAND ETC. WILL AGREE WITH ME WHEN I SAY THAT SOMETHING WAS MISSING, SOMETHING JUST WASN'T THERE... SORRY ABOUT ALL THE CAPS!!!! generally speaking, an OK movie, not bad, but could have been so much better! 7/10, if even sorry if u disagree u all have the right to hate me