Tolkien sucks. Hobbits suck. LOTR sucks.
Phew... I needed that.
count me as a non fan as well. completely overrated and painfully long IMO. no offense to anyone who likes them.
I fell asleep in two of them...I NEVER do that.
... have seen none of them despite peer pressure to do so, I read the Hobbitt in 6th grade and that's about as far as I'm willing to go.
Y'all can kiss my Nazgul
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Special Extended Edition - 2001
I should start by saying I am NOT a Tolkien fan, nor have I read any part of the trilogy, I was actually dragged to this the first time by a LOTR obsessed friend.
But once the movie began, I was amazed by the stunning visuals, drawn in by the partially simplistic good-versus-evil storyline supplimented with an insane level of detail and utterly impressed at the filmmaking in bringing such rampant imagination to life,
I think even all you "ring haters" would have to agree that the skill needed to bring Tolkien's creation to life was fairly stunning.
And you know, I do have this to back me up: 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes (one last plug
), grossed more than $271 million in US ($870 million worldwide), nominated for 13 academy awards including best picture (lost to "A Beautiful Mind") winning four including best director.
I enjoy and appreciate the trilogy as a whole, but The Fellowship is my personal favorite partially because it focuses on the Nine party members rather than the epic battles of the latter two.
But mostly because it was an absolute and awesome shock to leave the theater having actually enjoyed it.
And making it a perfect capper to my list, which, with the exception of The Dark Knight, MST3K and Jurassic Park, are all movies I thought I'd hate until I bothered to sit down and watch them
*Note: Added "Special Extended Edition" ... wouldn't my version to be inferrior to my fellow Ring Holders.