I'll keep my comments short and sweet, too -- between Thenamir's rant, Gilthalion's praise, and lindil's positive (*shock!*) review, I'm fairly well-covered. I loved it! <UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>WINGS!<LI>The acting was OUTSTANDING! McKellan for Best Actor -- he <I>owned</I> Gandalf!<LI>Swap Viggo for Bean? I echo the NO WAY! sentiment. I thought they were both great in their parts.<LI>I thought we saw the perfect amount of Gollum -- and he looked and sounded perfect.<LI>Jackson did a great job of compressing a very dense and challenging book into three hours. I hope New Line has the sense to put out a Director's Cut DVD with the four hour version I'd bet Jackson <I>could</I> have made.<LI>I loved watching Legolas work that bow! C'mon!</UL><P>I could go on and on, but it's late and I want to sleep with images of FotR dancing in my head.<p>[ December 20, 2001: Message edited by: Mister Underhill ]
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