Profound Satisfaction.

Rating: 8/10 (16 January 2004)

A great, great movie.
This is, as a trilogy, the greatest recreation made upon a story. A well known story if you happen to be an anglo-saxon. A deeply cherished story if you ever happened to be a child.
Every single boy who was ever told about Tolkien's world fell in love with it. This is an spread-up truth. We all guys love fantasies and portrayed worlds of adventure.
Yet, when we were put against one man's recreation of that very same fantasies we all had the same doubts: Is Peter Jackson capable of portraying my own and deep imaginary picture of this huge universe? Is he truly capable of filming an overwhelming picture that could reach beyond levels of my own already beyond-like experience?
Me myself read the book too many years ago to have an objective judgement about the story. I was only able to tell my friends that if there was a man capable of taking the challenge of making a movie about - and only about - The Lord of the Rings there were only two possible outcomes:

1) A perfectly horrible movie, where all the characters would have ended being badly played, and the whole story would have been minimized to a circumstancial therefore stupid excuse for a film. Or...
2) A tremendous and breathtaking classic, where everything had to be in its right place, all the actors should believe their roles and obviously nothing could be doubtful or even mediocrelly portrayed. This is the picture i watched.
Three years ago, when i first went into a theatre and payed a lot of money to watch The Fellowship of the Ring i was thinking about all this. When i got out, i was tremendously satisfied. In the very same way i am now.

Peter Jackson managed his way out (and in) of this great novel. He changed a few truly complicated things (when it comes to making a movie) yet he stayed entirely loyal to the very and most important elements of the story he was portraying: Nothing in anyone of the three pictures is really worthy of bashing. (Except, maybe, the 20 minutes he took to end the work of his life) The trilogy as a whole is almost perfect and he, as well as the entire cast, and especially the screenplay writer and the cinematographer, have made the greatest epical/adventure film the world has ever been able to watch.
I hardly believe anyone would ever be able to create a picture like this. It took several years for them to achieve it, and there was no film-maker so in love with his story like Peter Jackson was when he first started to make his dream come true.
Congrats to everyone that loved this movie, and congrats to the guys that believed in this project, as well to the guys that made it happen. A lot of people got happier even when the real world is breaking down even worse than the Middle Earth did.