Hauntingly Beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2005)

It is beyond me to describe the astonishing and wondrous vision of Peter Jackson's hauntingly beautiful adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel in a mere paragraph, yet I will try all the same. What has been achieved here is probably the prime example of a marriage between true art and box office, a film that creates it's world not only through the usage of cinema's most advanced technologies, but through the nature of the story told and the creation of unforgettable characters where many other directors would have relied only on the former. If you have not seen the films, I suggest you watch the three extended editions back to back (if you have the time) and get lost in this world completely for 13 hours. I have said all I meant to say, so there is only one more thing:
Thank you New Line Cinema, for taking the risk of your lives in making these movies possible.
Thank you Peter Jackson, for sharing your vision with us. And darn you, for making me feel regret at the thought of probably never being able to see anything like this again in the future!