Reviews

This film is a wonderful excursion into fantasy and adventure. Again, yes the film has it's flaws, but what movie doesn't? A few characters and situations were changed or omitted because of time restraints, not to mention to continue the flow of the film. In comparing this to Star Wars, note that this is toward the current prequels; not the original trilogy which began a revolution in moviemaking and moviegoing. The prequels don't compare in quality to those films. The fact is that the LOTR books predate Star Wars by a couple of decades, of which George Lucas borrowed a few sources from. I'm sorry, but the prequels just don't match up to LOTR OR the original SW trilogy, so it's not unfair at all.

Why not view this film and decide for yourself. Most of the bashers are Tolkien perfectionists, Star Wars geeks that don't want to admit that these 3 LOTR films will definitely overshadow their overly mediocre and shallow prequel trilogy and those who just plain don't get it or appreciate this kind of genre. Sure there are some differences from the book but I think most of these changes for good, or otherwise it would have been a 10 hour movie, unbearably too long to keep the interest of today's moviegoers. I,like many people had reservations about seeing this film but after I did, I came to appreciate Tolkien's works even more. In my humble opinion this is one of the best films to come out in a long time and one of the best ever. I will anxiously await the next two films and hope to see them all back to back. Thank you Peter Jackson, you've done a wonderful piece work.

This is Anne Parillaud's sexiest film ever, and in my opinion, her very best. But she is not the only one that's exceptional, Brigitte Stein, who plays her cousin, has the two most erotic scenes in the film. She has a lesbian love scene with Parillaud that's very sensual. Later she's making love with her boyfriend on the beach, very hot! Definitely recommended!

It has been many years since I've seen this film, but what I remember is that is deals with Emily's sexual awakening to womanhood. I would recommend seeing the uncensored version since the video I saw trimmed off most of the steamier scenes. The shower scene between Emily (Koo Stark) and Augustine (Ina Skriver) is beautiful and sensual and makes up for the film's shortcomings.

I first saw this film on late night cable tv back in the late 80's. And what I saw was a movie in which its images will stay with me for a long time. Although the actual film is nothing special, the tasteful nude sex scenes are some of the most beautiful ever filmed. Sure, John Derek didn't make a great picture and Bo's acting leaves much to be desired. But her astounding beauty and her love scenes with Andrea Occhipinti are great.