Lord of the Rings trilogy: Rate it.

The movies are fascinating.  My gal (wife now) and I drove an hour there and an hour back just to see The Fellowship of the Ring.  I had to piss through half of it.  I didn't dare move.

Ten.  Highest rating.

7. Great movies, but not really "my thing". Never gripped me. Nor did the books, funny enough.

7 ("very good"). Not my kind of cinema, though.

7. As a trilogy, I think they are less strong. As individual movies, I would rate Fellowship and Two Towers 9 easily. Return of the King was just way too long and sluggish in its pacing. 

10. So nostalgic, and so good! I had every game beaten on the hardest difficulty, no cheats, saw all the movies at least 3 times with the extended scenes, signed up to every online site, read all the books (Excluding The Hobbit), let's just say I was a real addict 

Really, best movies ever.

Captain Clutch wrote: er, I liked them when they came out but they're sort of boring now.  Especially with the absence of Tom Bombadil

I hate that they cut that whole part out, but seeing Tom Bombadil in the movie would have just killed the character for me, I think.

I'll be generous and give it a 6. as the director probably succeeds in realising what he aims at. Its easy to see that its perfect for those into fantasy, magic, wizards, dragons, giant spiders and all that. I'm not. Great big endless battlescenes bore me to tears in any genre. And you basically know who dies and who survives in this kind of predictable blockbuster storytelling anyway. Its not like I prefer down to earth realism (can't stand it really) with deeply moving going-for-oscar-acting or any of that crap, but I prefer fairytale or mystery to fantasy. I not that much of a snob either, I think. 

I do recall a quite long sequence in the middle of the movie in the middle I genuinely enjoyed. I also remember that the end of the whole trilogy is so far the longest half an hour of my entire life.

Still better than everything else I've seen in this genre. Which is not much really. The two first about that annoying teen wizard (rating: 3 and 2) and the first awful Narnia film (rating: 0). What a complete waste of money that was.

Ronnie Pilgrim wrote: Ten poll points, five stars, two thumbs up and a Nazgul in a pear tree.

I'd have to say 9.  It would have been 10 if they had been allowed to include everything they had to cut out for time from the books.