All three movies were really cool, but I definiitely agree that they were too long

Not me. I'm waiting for the extended version of ROTK.
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how long is that going to be?

5 hours long.

He said the theatrical release was a 3 and a half hour trailer for the extended release DVD.

Now THAT is interesting

Okay, so which film was the best one? I personally liked the 3rd the best, and that was always my favourite book. I'm really hoping they fix the disjointed pseudo-endings in the extended edition, and I suppose it's too much to hope to see the scouring, but all in all, I felt RotK captured Middle Earth in a way that the first 2 didn't. I didn't much like TT, it felt kind of sluggish. FotR was amazing when I first saw it, but the polish on RotK just kind of took the luster out of it.

I personally like HP better. And while were on series, the other two Matrices sucked

My order of favorites is 3-1-2 (oddly, the reverse of my Star Wars order). I'd say that the most annoying departures from Tolkien were in The Two Towers: Treebeard being tricked into fighting, Gimli being a walking joke, and Faramir dragging Frodo, Sam, and Gollum into that ridiculous encounter with the Nazgul.

yeah, i liked the 3rd one the best

A-fucking-men. Gimli was always my favourite character, and while I enjoyed the banter he and Legolas had throughout the film, I was fucking pissed that he was chosen as the comic relief character, especially in TT. I mean, isn't that what Merry and Pippin were meant to be, at least through until near the end. Gimli was a whirling ball of bladed death, I could care less if he was a "natural sprinter".

Yeah the movies def. were somethin else.. but would have been heavenly if they had done it right and made 4 so that they could tell the full tale that is encompassed within the books. But aside from the first Harry Potter (not a fan but i respect it), these were definitley the best book to film adaptations i have seen in a while.

FYI, Peter Jackson is making a remake of King Kong and then going back to making The Hobbit , that's what I heard.