Excellent Movie, yet disappointing.....

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2002)

***************Possible Spoilers****************** Well I was excited to see this one after all the positive things I had read about it. The truth is I would have been 100% satisfied if I hadn't read the books so many times. I read an article in the local paper two days before seeing the movie and in the article it stated that Mr. Jackson had done some things with the characters that would probably cause some problems with the hard core fans of the book. The article was right. Though I don't consider myself a fanatical fan I was hoping Mr. Jackson wouldn't toy with the characters to much. I was wrong, in some places he had the characters acting so unlike themselves in the book it was disappointing. I guess he had his reasons for doing so but in the beginning he stated he would be true to the book and well he let this fan down. I also didn't like scenes that he made which didn't even happen in the book. Oh well I guess that is show biz. I hope the next one doesn't deviate like this one did. I still have to admit it was good. I give it an A. It should have been an A+!