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Summary: 3 hours that seems like 15 minute
Review: This movie is amazing!It is so good that it makes three hours seem like a very short time!The music is amazing!Dont watch it alone becuase even though its sayed to just be a fantasy it is very scary!!!!!The sound is what did it for me,you would be setting there watching a pleasent scene with nothing really happening and then a sound effect would take place that would make you jump out of your skin!The special effects are amazing to!The actors fit the roles buetifully and it all comes together perfectly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: w o w
Review: ... this movie is absolutely amazing. you really have to see it to believe it. the special effects will bLow yOur mInd!!! the cast is OUTSTANDING and they have stupendous chemistry! the soundtrack completely goes hand in hand with the actions andthe sets/scenery were gorgeous! i have loved these books my entire life, and so i was a little nervous in case my imagery of the book would be changed like in harry potter. i was soooo not disappointed! i loved every minute of it and i was glued to my seat evrytime! ...
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Summary: The Best Movie of All Time!
Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the best I've ever seen in my whole life! When you read the book your like, "Wow this is a good book! But it's impossible to make a movie out of it." Well, the impossible has become possible! The music was absolutely wonderful! The actors & actresses were perfect for each of their characters. The scenes were beautiful. Everything was perfect! But the worst part of all is that people will have to wait a WHOLE year to see the next movie!
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Summary: Epic- In Greatness and Length
Review: I had never read The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings before I knew that this movie was coming out, but I had always heard good things about them, so I read them, and then I saw the movie. Both movie version and book versions are phenomenal! Of course the story is great, but that isn't everything. This movie has great effects, and some of them are as simple as forced perspective! Some of the actors are mediocre, but Ian McKellan for one is amazing. This is the first in a series of three movies that tell the story of Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), a hobbit who has been charged with the task of destroying the One Ring of Power, forged by an evil sorceror thousands of years ago. This is no easy task though, because it can only be destroyed in one place, which is deep in the lair of Sauron, the sorceror. To make matter's worse, the Ringwraiths, nine spirits of humans turned evil and loyal to Sauron, are searching for the ring. To make matters even worse, Saruman (not to be confused with Sauron), a wise wizard, has gone insane and now yearns for the One Ring, and has created an army of his own to retrieve the Ring. This is an amazing film, but there is one tiny problem. This movie is a tad long, but it's worth it.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: I never read the original books, although I've read a lot of both fantasy and sci-fi, but my friends who have tell me this movie was very faithful to the original story and spirit of the Tolkien novels. The movie's spectacular sets, backdrops, and many great action scenes make it one of the most exciting movies of the season to watch.The casting overall was pretty strong, too; the only part I had some misgivings about was the forest queen character, played by Kate Blanchett, for some reason I can't really put my finger on. But anyway, overall the selections for the roles were good and they followed up by doing a fine job in their respective roles. John Rhys-Davies is great as the dwarf, Gimli, to give a plug for one of the characters that didn't have as showy a role as the rest but was still important to the story. Prior to this, I new Davies from the outstanding job he did as the Leonardo da Vinci holodeck character on Star Trek Voyager. It would be interesting to see somebody make a film of the C.S. Lewis book, the Narnia Chronicles, since they're one of the few other things I can think of that are similar to the Tolkien story, with its richly detailed, mythic, and fairy-tale like setting, that might transfer well to the silver screen.
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Summary: Peter Jackson's vision is close to perfection
Review: Peter Jackson has, in my educated and thoroughly Tolkien drenched opinion, done excellent work in traslating this excellent book to the screen.
My father first read my sister and I the "Lord of the Rings" series when we were six and eight years old, respectively (nearly fifteen years ago). I have since returned to it countless times, and hold it as the standard by which I judge many of the novels I read. I thus understand the sheer IMPOSIBILITY of ANYONE ever making a completely infallible cinamatic version of Tolkien's masterpiece. I would, however contend that Peter Jackson's vision is as close as we will ever come to perfection. The movie has somehow managed to capture the individual flavor of the book, it's characters, and the environments it occupies. I do have three main complaints, but I'll air them quickly:
1. One Actor I'd change: Hugo Weaving as Elrond. I disliked the attitude Mr. Weaving brought to the character.
2. One scene I'd change: The "Wizard's Duel" scene. Reminded my sister and I both of senior citizens W.W.F. (although I do not watch W.W.F., so perhaps this opinion is not valid). And yes, I found this more unnerving than the little Arwen saves the day fling (NOT found in the books).
3. Scene I missed: My sister and I both agreed (when it comes to Tolkien, we tend to agree more than we usually do) the one scene we missed most was Galadriel giving her gifts to the Fellowship in Lorien. Especially since the gifts will come into play in "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King". Perhaps it will be included in the worthy D.V.D. edition (which has promised extra footage). All right. That said, the movie was replete with cinimatic splendor rarely seen, and the actors, while over-advertized, were not your every-day, chick-flick, reviewer's darlings. These people do Shakespeare. And they're good. Very good. Sean Bean was probably the actor who suprised me the most. His portrayal of Boromir was very authentic in its psycological quandary: to take and use the thing which would free his people from suffering, death, and possible enslavement? Or to destroy it in the knowledge that it would eventually destroy all around it? Sean Astin was perfect as Sam! His friendship, honor, loyalty, and brotherly love for Frodo all come through, although I suspect that much of his scenes in this first instalment ended up on the cutting room floor.
The soundtrack puts John Williams to shame. I had never previously heard of Howard Shore, but I will look for his work in the future. And longtime trillogy fans will be amused by the use of book chapter titles as track titles, as well as their subtle placement in dialogue throughout the movie.
All in all, I would advise most Tolkien fans to see the movie at least once- and many to view it more often...
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Summary: I know it's been done to death...
Review: But I'm writing a review anyway. 3 stars for it being a review of the movie and not the DVD. Although I am pleased to see the whole movie will be on one DVD! Anyway...I've seen it twice, the first time, going in as a Tolkien fan of more than a decade, expecting certain things (such as I had heard Arwen wouldn't do too much) only to be hideously disappointed by the loss of what I thought to be a crucial scene for Frodo (telling off all nine Ringwraiths when you've got nine toes in the grave shows some WILL...but instead we get Arwen usurping the power of Elrond, Gandalf, stealing Glorfindel's horse, and making Aragorn look bad), so I was somewhat disappointed in the film; there are a number of other details I could gripe about, generally Tolkienite technicalities, not things like the condensation that took place (I understand that that much book has to be snipped, and they did a generally good job snipping!). The Ringwraiths were rather weak as 'synchronized swimmers', and I felt really bad for Frodo the designated Dartboard that every bad thing in the universe was out to get...but I must confess I was still over-awed and would have very willingly sat in the theatre for 6 more hours to see TTT and RotK. Upon the second viewing I was much more impressed, because knowing what was going to happen in certain places, I was able to see that Jackson had shifted the crucial Frodo scene from the Ford to Weathertop; the scene is much different, but it still gives Frodo the sense of iron will...instead of telling off Ringwraiths he pulls the Ring away from the Witch-King while pinned to the ground by a dagger. Very different, but the end effect is similar. There were other shifts like that which I didn't catch the first time. I came out of the second viewing with the realization that there were two movies here--one for the Tolkien fanatic like me who would be ecstatically gleeful when they saw the attention to detail (Legolas walking on snow) and how much of Tolkien's actual writing was used (such as the part about Pity, and that Fool of a Took), and a second movie for those who were not previous readers or fans. It made me wonder about what that second movie was like...I could only catch a glimpse of it. I was very impressed the second time through by Elrond and Boromir--Hugo Weaving and Sean Bean did a spectacular job. The look of outraged amusement in Elrond's eyes when Hobbits start popping out of the woodwork is priceless, and Boromir was well played through-out. I can understand the frustration of non-readers when they get to the end--I saw it first with my parents and my mom was wondering how in the world they were going to wrap the story up in the next ten minutes. As it stands, I'm torn about which edition to buy...I want to see more movie (especially as I've heard what the scenes cut were), but then the idea of not having to change discs partway through and ruin the experience is very appealing....
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Summary: I have been waiting for this movie for a long time
Review: I have been dying to see this movie ever since I heard that The Lord of the Rings was going to be made into a movie. My brother in law saw them filming in New Zealand and was able to offer me some early tidbits to help me make it through the waiting period. I was a little nervous that all the waiting would make the movie seem a bit anti climatic. But I was quite pleased with the outcome. It is just the right mix of developing the characters, action and drama to appropriately portray on screen the story of such a classic novel as this one. I was quite satisfied with the accuracy to the real storyline. Although I realize a few changes had to be made, it seemed clear to me as to why the filmmakers choose to mix it up a bit. To avoid ruining the movie for anyone, I won't go in to details on this point. Overall this movie was better than I had hoped for and I will definitely be buying this on DVD.
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Summary: Incredibly layered movie
Review: I had read the trilogy when I was in junior high - many years ago and of the many books I read back then, it was one of the few that stuck in my memory. I was very excited to see it was coming out in the theater. It definitely did not disappoint me. I saw the movie 5 times and each time it only got better. After seeing it the first time and getting through the special effects and intense scenes - and there are some intense scenes - I enjoyed the next 4 viewings even more. After the initial shock I was able to think more about the dialogue, develop the characters in my mind and realize what a beautiful, deep story Mr. Tolkien created. The vocabulary and creativity of story line is something that is truly lacking in today's literature - and I am a huge reader. Each bit of dialogue in the movie held me spellbound, stuggling to remember it because I knew that it meant something more than what was being said. I too was very moved by the scene where Frodo steps forward during the creating of the Fellowship and volunteers to take the ring to Mordor. The visual of Frodo's small, insignificant size amongst all those large and authoritative elves, etc. reminded me of scenes in my mind of the young David in the Bible volunteering to take on Goliath. I was also impressed by how the good characters, especially Aragon appeared so incredibly cool as he prepared to take on the Ring Wraiths and Orks. He almost appeared as if he knew that good was going to overcome evil and since he was part of the good, he was indestructable as long as he pursued what was right. The movie was beautiful, intense, touching, funny and incredibly deep. Those who complain that they didn't get many parts, well, I would encourage them to read the books or look deeper while viewing the movie a second time. So often the movies of today are a light bit of meaningless entertainment not even worth coffee afterwards to discuss. Here was a movie that was so full of discussion material, my friends and I still discuss it 5 months after it came out. Most of the other movies I've seen since then I can barely remember the title let alone the dialogue. I know it is a movie I will not easily tire of like 99% of the movies created today. I also agree, it was robbed at the Academy Awards. My hope is that the Academy realized that Two Towers and Return of the King will be back for tries two and three and one of them will get best director and best movie.
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Summary: Wait for the Director's Cut
Review: I've been waiting for a movie version of Tolkien's masterpiece ever since I first read The Lord of the Rings almost 25 years ago. My initial reaction was happy but a little unsatisfied, wanting to see a book that was truer to Tolkien's story, but repeated watchings have changed my view for the positive. There is too much about this movie that is excellent to list it all here. The soundtrack, the scenery, the actors, the special effects and Peter Jackson's vision for a movie. Its all just fantasic. But I'm going to force myself to wait for the Director's Cut which will be released sometime in October/November. With an extra 30 minutes plus extra DVD's it will represent a real seven course movie feast.
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