Biggest waste of good film stock.

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2002)

I hated this movie more than I can begin to explain. I hated all the worse because each scene was wonderful but the package was a brown paper bag of flaming (you-know-what) left on my door step.
Jackson didn't understand that this is a book about fraternal love. The love of the ents for Merry and Pippen and the love of Faramir for Frodo. The love of Gimli for Legolas. He tried to make it about Arwen and Aragorn because he seems to think that we can't see men love each other and not be gay. He really beat the horse to hamberger.
Most of all he ended both of the stories in the middle. He added a hour and a half of garbage in the middle and left off all the meat at the end.

All in all I give this moive a 4/10. If he hadn't changed Faramir's character and had spent 1/2 hrs less on the faked love scenes and 1/2 more on the Ents it would have gotten a 8 or a 9. This movie suffers the unforgivable sin of missed potential.