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Summary: One of the Best Films Ever Made!
Review: I am a huge movie buff and I must say that this movie is among my top ten favorites of all-time. No doubt it was robbed of the Academy Awards for best picture and best director. The others in my top ten are: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, Young Frankenstein, Moulin Rouge, American Beauty, All About Eve, Chinatown, and Harold & Maude.
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Summary: nap time
Review: I was so excited about watching this movie. In two attempts I fell asleep twice so I gave up. It was obvious there were great special effects and I enjoyed the book to a degree but just couldn't stay awake. Call me a 40 year old kid but I enjoyed Harry Potter much more. Thumbs down on this one for me unless you need help falling asleep.( I have noticed 25 people found this review unhelpful. I am not trying to slam the movie but just point out that for me, I couldn't stay awake through it.)
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Summary: It should have won the oscar
Review: This is, without a doubt the best film I have ever seen. Peter Jackson and the Cast & Crew of this movie did a great job, and while the movie was not totally true to the book, some things just didn't fit. I mean, if Tom Bombadil had been included it would have been like 4 and 1/2 hours long! And while I wouldn't mind, most people wouldn't stomach 4 hours in a dark theater. I really think it should have won the oscar for best picture, but the soundtrack oscar kept me happy. The music for this is the best I have ever heard. Howard Shore really deserved the oscar. Anyway, if you haven't already, SEE THIS MOVIE! But don't take little kids, the orcs are just a little to real for a five-year-old. And by the way, the people at MTV are so cool for giving LOTR Best Picture at their movie awards, Thanks!!
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Summary: 16-year old scifi/fantasy fanatic
Review: Unless you live 100 miles from the closest settlement in the Yukon you probably have heard of this movie, or the original books, or both. I do agree with those who compare this movie with all time classics like Ben-Hur and Citizen Kane. It IS that good. Not prefect, and having read the books there were a few thing I would have done differently but in the end he did a brillant, defining piece of work here. The movie kept the SPIRIT of the books so well, unlike Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Don't get me wrong, I like Harry Potter and probably enjoy Rowling's works over Tolkien, but the movie was just amazing and awe-inspiring. Again, VERY GOOD!!! This is not the most accurate adaption of the book, but being nearly 3 hours long it does a good job for effort. If you are looking to buy the DVD I would suggest just renting the theatrical release and getting the packed, 4-disc extended version coming out in November(ign.com says it is shaping up the be the best DVD set EVER!) Rent until November that's what I'm going to do.;)Since the whole trilogy was made at the same time, the next 2 films should be just as good!(I just hope they can get Gollum to be as creepy in the movie as in my mind...) For those who haven't read the books--if you thought the first movie was epic, hang on to your socks during Return of the King!
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Summary: "You have only one choice"
Review: I have only one thing to say:
"You have only one choice, one of you- must buy the director's cut- with an extra 30 minutes of film, forget all the pricey distractions in deluxe sets on the way, and cast it into your DVD player for 3 1/2 hours of pure entertainment. All other options are usless, as we cannot use them".
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Summary: A wonderous epic adventure unfolds.
Review: Now I love fantasy films and books. So I found the first installment to "The Lord of the Rings" movie to be truly superb and just plain fun. I think I am going to wait to buy the special edition DVD, because that one is supposed to have even more sepcial features on it. As of now, I've just only recently finished reading "The Hobbit" and "The Fellowship of the Ring" because I've been busy reading the Harry Potter novels. I saw "The Fellowship of the Ring" in theaters and it was wonderful! The casting was done brilliantly...Elijah Wood has finally gotten the media attention he deserves with his role of Frodo Baggins. I'm glad he got the role--he really did deserve it. I've never even heard of most of these actors (with the exceptions of Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Liv Tyler, Christopher Lee, and Cate Blanchett) until I saw the film. The plot is pretty simple and straight-forward, but the action and excitment is what makes this movie so worth-while! All the actors really do a tremendous job and the visual and sound effects are breathtaking. The Howard Shore musicial score is beautiful and I especially love the theme song by Enya called "Maybe It Be". Peter Jackson did an amazing job with the directing, too. The scenary is spectacular and I'm so glad they decided to film these movies in New Zeleand because it really does look like a Middle-Earth. "The Two Towers" continues the story and "The Return of the King" concludes it. I hope the other two movies will be just as amazing as "The Fellowship of the Ring". Sure, they left out some parts of the novel but, like the first Harry Potter movie, the novel was just too long to fit it all into the film. And unlike the Harry Potter film, you don't really need to read the whole "Lord of the Rings" trilogy before you can see the movie...but it would be a good idea to anyway because the books are excellent! So definitely buy this DVD, but personally I'd wait for the extended version DVD. Amazing film! A must-see. Final Grade: A
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Summary: No words
Review: This movie is amazing and now words can discribe it. I loved it so much the first time I saw it, so I watched it 6 times in theaters and I intend to watch it a couple of more times. I believe that this DVD will be the best DVD ever to have been created. There are tons of added features that will stun people. This is the DVD of all DVD's.
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Summary: Entertainment and satisfying transfer to the screen
Review: The Lord of the Rings was one of my first books in the genre of fantasy. I started with David Eddings and Jack Vance, but J. R. R. Tolkien, even though being a hurdle for a young reader of fantasy novels, was finally really thrilling due to its complexity and also to its richness in detail and also due to its very easily understandable main motives (George R. R. Martin, Tad Williams, Robert Jordan and some others are writers that followed the traition of high and complex fantasy are also adorable). In this novel, heros are truly heros, sword fighters are true artists, bad is truly black and the good is usually white and shining (I do not not necessarily agree with this philosophy). About twelve years after I read the books, I still was captured by the imaginative pictures presented by the film, but some of the fine details may have been lost (like details were lost in Dune or in Blade Runner). Seeing the film was meeting again the world of Tolkien. The film is not free of criticism (additional scenes - like the ones includig Arwen -, the ending taken over from the second book etc.) but I very much enjoyed the film anyhow. And what else do you should do when watching a movie? I watched his film a second time, and this happended only with Episode II and with Episode VI some nineteen years ago. It is, as far as to my feeling, not a film to be watched by kids younger than 16teen, but it is entertaining and it resembles very much the feeling I had while reading the book (I heard Simply Red songs while reading the books, but the todays music score is nevertheless fascinating, like the Episode II score).
I do recommend the film to every true fan of fantasy and to every fan of a somewhat different movie of a not to complicated content. It is mainstream somehow, but it is made whith a very sensitive feeling for the genre. To boldly go... may the power be with you... one ring to bind them!
I love them all. You can criticise them, but you have to do it better to overcome the critics. I request critics to be free of emotion (as long as not otherwise indicated) and to try to be objective. "De gustibus non est disputandum" I (personally) adore this film and I do anticipate its two successors with insatiable hunger.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: I was a little worried that this movie would be like too many other movies made from great books--hardly recognizable as the same story. I was in heaven from the first minute! Nearly everything looked and sounded just as it should, from the round hobbit doors in the Shire to the Orcs and goblins at the end. The little Hollywood embelishment with the romantic scene between Aragorn and Galadriel was acceptable, as were the few things they cut out.
I was on the edge of my seat the entire time! (Even tho I have read the books too many times to count!)
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Summary: Terrific!!
Review: Three hours flew by! I didn't read the books nor do I intend to. (I tried when I was a young woman and could not get into them.) It isn't at all important to read the books before seeing this incredibly thrilling movie. And Viggo Mortenson--very tasty.
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