Hugely Amazing

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2002)

The word I've been using is HUGE... and often. This movie is filled with so much... when it came to an end, I was only upset to not have at least another 30 minutes to an hour for more.
You've likely all heard it already, but Gollum is incredible and enjoys LOTS of screen time... even "solo", if you'd even call it that.
Treebeard was taken directly from MY mind.
The fact that Viggo Mortensen didn't get a nomination for Best Actor: drama in the Golden Globes is proof that there is little justice in the entertainment biz. His Aragorn is so utterly more convincing than many of the other nominees...
Anyway. And to the folks who are voting a 1 for this movie (or even a 5 or less)... your baseless pettiness is so obvious, it's actually pretty sick.
Was everything book perfect? Heck no. Are you a fool for expecting everything to have been done book perfect? Heck yes! Most people I know who have read the whole story always felt that Two Towers was the most boring of the books. Battles are fine and all, but don't make for great story writing. This movie made it more exciting.
So, a couple characters were again embellished or altered to fit a slight change in plot, but they worked out, and certainly could only possibly bother someone who expected every little detail to remain true to the books... which has been said from day one to be less than completely possible in a movie setting.
Yes, I give a 10/10. Perhaps I'm too easy to please. Since I can't step outside myself and see it as a Tolkien novice and refuse to see it as a Strict Purist... it was as perfect as a movie can be made now. Perhaps some nasty critics should be stuffed in caves for a couple hundred years until they become their own gollums and then no CG will be needed?