Well Done

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2001)

I have been looking forward to seeing this movie for sometime now. I was concerned whether the film-makers would stay close to the story or turn it into some commercial junk to sell stuff in the stores. The "making of" program did a little to alleviate that. I found the movie very good. Although a few things were changed in regards to the story. Fans of the book might be a little disappointed with some of the artistic liberties taken, but the movie does a pretty good job of catching the essence of the story. The images of such places as Hobbiton, Rivendell, and the mines of Moria, were spectacular. My image of Lothlorien is brighter than they portrayed but the film could not spare the time to linger there as the fellowship did in the book. Was it worth a couple bucks per hour to sit through this? Yep!I've paid more and got much less in return . That D&D film last year was as bad as this is good. At least it's only a year until the sequel!