One film to rule them all (except Star Wars)

Rating: 10/10 (29 May 2002)

I'm currently reading the third instalment to Tolkien's epic trilogy, which is quite good. The film adaptation was definetly not what I expected, but what I expected wouldn't have been as good. It's knocked alot because people think it's boring. Sorry, but you guys must have the attention spands of a wall-nut. I'll admit it's long if you've gotta p*** and you don't wanna miss anything.
The film starts the epic trilogy of the war of the ring in which Frodo Bagins (Eligha Wood) must journy to Mt. Doom to destroy the Ring of power before the evil Sauron gets it. He inlists eight others to help him: The wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), the wanderer Aragorn or Strider (Viggo Mortesen), Frodo's best friend Samwise Gamegee (Sean Astin), two other friends Meridoc Brandybuck (Billy Boyd) and Pippen Took (Dmenc Mohnangy), the elf Legolas Greenleaf (Orlando Bloom) and the dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davis).
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING has the second best ensamble cast ever (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is the best), and an excelent performance by Wood. The directing is great and so are the costumes, visual f/x, ect. This is the second best film ever (second to STAR WARS: EPISODE IV A NEW HOPE). The only problems I had was that there was always a certain darkness in this that wasn't in the books, and there was so much left out. I can't wait for the four-hour long director's cut (I know it's pathetic, you don't have to tell me).
I give THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 9.9/10
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is PG-13 for lots of medievil violence (most of the gore is that of orcs and monsters) and some very scary moments