Went to see Lord of the Rings today. It was spectacular - breath-taking, even.
At 3 hours, it needed an intermission though - badly.
The thing that hit me almost immediately was how much Harry Potter drew from the story. Weird - it's been probably 20 years since I last read LOTR, but I wouldn't have thought the Voldemort/Sauron connection could fly completely beneath my radar - but it did.
I was quite pleased with it - as was my daughter, who pronounced it "twice as good" as HP.
