My thoughts on Lord Of The Rings for someone who asked.. First of all, Ive only read the first book, and half of the second one. I'm slowly but surely working my way though it. The first film - Wow I hated it. I sat there bored outta my tiny little skull, then when it came out on dvd I saw it again and fucking loved it. Hate Legolas though, Elves should not remind me of the resident gays (no offence, but they really did), Elves should be cool, and hardy, but elegant... Gimli was funny, underused the character from the book, but we needed some fucking comedy, and it should be at the expense of the midget. Pippin rules, scottish guys = automatically cool. Second film = I FUCKING LOVE IT!! Instantely loved this one, my favourite out of the three, same reasons the last one was good, but less bits with people sitting about blabbing about shite. Third = Somewhere in the middle, a bit lucklustre compared to the previous entry, and not really hitting the high emotions of the first one till near the end. But yeah, worth watching over and over and over. BUT I WILL NOT HAVE A MARATHON.... well maybe I will... My mam and dad might be divorcing. I dont really care, if they're gonna do it they should hurry up about it. So thats me kinda reviewed Troy, Harry Potter 3 and TLOTR trilogy... what else... Van Helsing... Dog shit. This was just boring, I, as a horror enthusiast, looked forward to seeing Franky, Dracula and the Wolfman back on the big screen, with Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman to boot, but well... Stephen Sommers is a tit, the Mummy films are nothing magical, neither is this, all big CG movies... He here took a character, and seemed to base it around the roles Jackman has played before (the memory loss, clouded history think is all Wolverine shite) then put in a monster that sounds like it's taken lessons in speech from Shakespear, and a pretty cool wolfman and dracula, who of course are CG all the damn time (when Drac is normal though, it's damn cool) The Friar is "Q" from the Bond films, now played by the dude from Lord Of The Rings (DIE ANOTHER DAY FUCKING SUCKS) and it's just boring piss, it isn't even a fun rollercoaster movie like so many mindless action films are. Piss. Go see something more challenging, Like Thomas the tank and the magic fucking railroad. -Dougs.