Good Movie
For Christmas my youngest son received the first two of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. And for the longest time my son has been, well, perstering me to watch them with him. I kept putting him off because I was reluctant to tarnish my memory of The Lord of the Rings, which I had read at least twice, and perhaps three times while in college.
Last Tuesday he finally wore me down and I watched The Fellowship of the Ring with him. I thought it was pretty good and fairly faithful to my memory of the LOTR if not the books themselves. During the week I thought "Well what's done can't be undone. There's no point in not watch the last two." So on Friday night he and I watched the second in the series. And we've just gotten back from seeing The Return of the King. I have say that if you've an interest in this kind of story, The Lord of the Rings - and this last one especially - are extremely well done and entertaining.
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I've already seen the first two. We are waiting for the last one to come out on dvd. We watched the first one in the theater and I had a very hard time sitting still for that long!! I'm too old I guess to sit through a movie that long at one stretch. But they are definitely well worth watching!
If you've seen any of the "making of..." specials, you'll understand that they did their darndest to remain faithful to the books. And they did so without using much of the actual dialogue and having to leave out some of the extraneous stuff, like Old Tom in the first book. But you know, the story didn't suffer for it at all!