I am really, really happy with it, and I'm excited too. And I had my doubts going in, but I got sucked in very hard, very quickly. I was a starry-eyed 8-year-old again.

My friend Greg - who was my boyfriend when the LOTR movies were coming out, and we lived in geekytown together - put off seeing it because reviews made him really skeptical, but when I finally got him to go, he was like a little kid too. He said he thinks he might love it more than the LOTR movies. More room to stretch out in the story, less rushing through plot points.