i cried :(

Rating: 5/10 (25 September 2004)

I cried because they messed this movie up so much! At the end of the movie, I literally sat there bawling because, after reading the books at least 8 times, I was so disappointed by Peter Jackson's direction of the movie. The Two Towers was amazing, it stuck to the books and had awesome battle sequences. In RotK, the battle scenes look copied from the TT, the Paths of the Dead made me think Bloom had brought the guys in from Pirates of the Caribbean, the movie felt extremely long, and there were 8 endings!!! The worst part of it was they left out the Scouring of the Shire... the scene was completely gone. I used to be a huge Lord of the Rings fan, I saw the other two movies at least 20 times and have read the books every year for years. After seeing this, I've completely lost interest. If you enjoyed the book, don't bother watching the movie.