Each to their own

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2004)

There are three (OK maybe more?) groups of people where these films are dealing with: 1. LOTR fanatics 2. LOTR fans 3. LOTR Couldnt care less....show me the movie
I am in group 2, have read the book about 8 times, but do not remember every name in it or every scene from the book. In my (humble) opinion you are never going to please all of the people all of the time, but this trilogy comes pretty damn close. the first apparent thing is it is made/directed with an great love/appreciation of the novel. To appeal to group 1 you would have to make 10 films each 4 hours long, to appeal to group 3 you would need to condense the three films into two 90 minute slice and dice movies, i really do believe these could not be better done, i could have a few needless niggles, but why bother when the overall effect is so stunning. the only sour taste left in ones mouth is what a charade, fix and outright disgrace the awards ceremonies are, as when the Two Towers 'towered' above any film that year it failed, and when it did win all before it, there was some VERY good competition, which was made to appear weak.....c'est la vie