I couldn't stand the Harry Potter movie and I'm a huge fan of the books. This probably sounds quite harsh, but I thought the actors playing Hermione, Ron and Harry were quite bad

oh well, I'll go and see the second one of a sense of duty, hopefully it'll be better
as for the Lord of the Rings, that was brilliant! though I think even after 3 hours of watching it all, you'd have to have read the book to understand parts of it.