Personally, <I>if</I> PJ stays extremel;y close to the books in RotK I can see enjoying it more than the matrix movies, but for me matrix [so far] has this built in advantage, it is not a perversion or a reduction or a 're-vision' of anything.<P>It is its own story, whereas with the PJ films I have to mentally reset my brain from LotR mode to 'sort of the rings ' mode. Not an easy or entirely pleasant experience. FotR extended is not too bad, the reg version and TTT are jolting at times.<P>Also to me in terms of pure movie making Matrix is flawless, whereas LotR has many handicaps.<P>All that said, I would not hesitate to take LotR [the books] to the desert island instead of matrix.<P>So despite the movies being apples and oranges in one sense, Matrix I [and 2 and 3 look not to disappoint, if anything to be even better] is by far the better movie experience to me.<P>I do truly hope I am proved wrong by RotK though.<p>[ April 24, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]
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