Now I See What The Hype Is All About...

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2004)

When the first LotR came out, I was one of the few people who didn't know that it had. Seriously. I remember some trailers on television about a movie about a ring, but that's it. Even the second movie went unnoticed by me. I still had no idea who Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, or Viggo Mortensen was. I was totally clueless about two of the greatest movies of all time.
When the third one came out, I actually noticed a lot of the hype about it. How could I not? I still didn't think the movie would interest me. Plus it was 3+ hours long, and I wasn't going to sit for that long in a theater.
That all changed when I caught "The Fellowship" on television. I absolutely fell in love with the movie, and I rented "The Two Towers" the next week. Now I couldn't wait for "Return of the King" to come out on DVD (I still wasn't going to sit in a theater for the whole thing). When it finally came out... to put it simply, there is no way to convey simply how breathtaking that movie was. It was... AMAZING. I fell in love with it at once. Th plot was wonderful; I liked how there were two separate journeys going on, with one common goal in mind. The actors were terrific. There's no doubting that this one is the best out of the three. I guess it is because the whole trilogy is just one BIG movie split up into three parts, and the climax is "RotK". If you don't understand what all the hype is about and haven't watched the movie, please do. You will soon understand.