Nope! The first movie was a poorly paced bore. And honestly I never really got into the LOTR series like many people seemed to. I still hate fellowship of the ring, only recently came to like The Two Towers (fell asleep in theatres when seeing it back in 03)......however I do think Return Of The King is one of the best movies ever. So I have had a love/hate relationship with this series.
Still gonna see it at launch though lol .... it's a friends group thing...we have to see it haha
All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey