Where to begin...?

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2004)

First off, whoever has said that the ending dragged out has no idea what they're talking about until they've read anything by Charles Dickens, and besides, unless you've read the book, you don't know that that's how it's supposed to be anyway, so they can read the books or stop worrying about it.
I loved this movie. I loved everything about it, from the musical score to the special effects to Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortenson. I loved the books and I think that it held up well to them (not overly, or the scouring of the shire would have made it a 4 and 1/2-hour film and I wouldn't have gotten ANY sleep the night it came out). I thought that it was a masterpiece of modern cinema, and I LIKED Pippin's song!
The only flaw I had with the movie was Christopher Lee's performance, or, rather, the lack thereof. However, that will be mended in the Extended Edition, so all is well. If you didn't like the movie, I'm sure the books would change your mind, but if you hated the Hobbit, don't bother, because it's all in the same style.
(spoilers...?)
Okay, maybe I lied, I did have one other flaw, but it was more with me than the movie, and that was how life-like Shelob was, as I am, in fact, arachnophobic. But even the incredible fear of a gigantic spider descending upon Frodo was not enough to dissuade me from watching this movie the moment it came out on DVD, namely because the rest of the movie took my breath away, specifically when Pippin sang his song that very nearly brought me to tears, which is something that songs just don't do to me.
Anyway, a work of pure genius, I rate this movie with a ten out of ten.