Oh, COME ON. It was GOOD.

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2002)

I simply cannot believe the sheer amount of people insolently yelling and screaming about this being 'the worst film ever'. Sure, it may not have followed the book to a T (and no, I haven't read the books) and it was somewhat flashy. But what on earth did you expect?
FoTR was a wonderful fairytale adventure, and probably the only other fantasy film to give me the same butterflies I got watching Excalibur for the first time again. It is indeed contrived, the story rather stereotypical etc.. but people must understand, this IS the original. The story from which most of modern fantasy writers draw a certain degree of inspiration from.

I know almost no-one will read this, as there are nigh on 1000 comments already. But I am actually offended that people thought this didn't deserve even a fraction of the praise it got. It was just magical.
Allan.