Wow

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2003)

Spoiler
Anyone who believes they have seen a better movie is mad. This is the best book ever written and the way Jackson brought it to the screen made it even better, though at the time I didn't think that was possible.
The Fellowship was great. It left out some good parts (Tom Bombadil and the barrow wright) but the special edition made up for the theatrical's shortcomings. If you haven't seen it, buy it. The most developed characters were Gandalf and Boromir(duh, when else would they have built him up?)
The Two Towers took a lot of liberties and cut a lot out of the book but still was as long as the first. I loved all the interaction between Gimli and Legolas(ahhh........) Golum wasn't quite what I expected, he was a lot more human and that really freaked my out. I haven't seen the special ed. but I heard it was fabulous.
Now, for the big one. The Return of the King surpassed even my highest expectations, and they were sky high. It made me mad that they left out the part with Aragorn finding the tree, the whole Shire incident, and the endi ng (Sam is supposed to get to come later!) but the rest of the movie made up for the cuts. The dead people are scarier than my English teacher. I absolutely hated the first scene though. It was just to weird and didn't flow correctly with the rest. They didn't develop the steward as much as they should have, but we got the impression from all his interactions with Farimir and Pippin. (Billy Boyd can sing!)Every scene that included Aragorn was awesome. He definetely deserves an Oscar. The battle of Pelinor Fields was a tad overdone but it was still wow. I loved Legolas's thing with the Oliphant. The blackouts towards the end of the movie were a bit odd.
Overall, holy cow. For those who don't like it, I honestly think the reason is that you don't have any imagination at all, because that's what it takes to enjoy this movie. And those who were worried that the 2nd and 3rd wouldn't be as good because they were sequels-guess what? They aren't sequels! Tolkien wrote all of it as one book. ONE. It was divided for printing, but it is one story. The story of the one ring.