Tolkein really is Hobbit forming

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2002)

Now with this many posts someone's probably mentioned this already but.... Can you believe the amount of stoner references they crammed in to this flick? From Saruman repremanding Gandalf for his "love of the halfling's weed" to Sam. Merry and Pippin getting all excited over some special mushrooms to Bilbo and Gadalf toking on the hill. Of course I exaggerate, there's probably very little danger of Cheech and Chong turning up as a couple of Orcs in the next installment, still I do wonder. Story wise I reckon Sean Bean is man of the match, he gave the character of Bormir a real sense of tragic heroism , and expanded on what we know from the book. I approved of all the deviations from the novel, especially Aragorn getting the chance to say G'bye to Frodo. It made the story much more satisfying as a cinematic experience.