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Summary: Get the boxed set
Review: If you are a LOTR fan, get the boxed set if you want to buy a copy of the movie.
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Summary: What a Great Day to Live In, Fantasy and Technology !
Review: If you are a visual person this time in Middle Earth is the best. The Lord of the Rings met all my expectations and more. It is an amazingly beautifully executed masterpiece. The cinematography was composed of dreamy pastorial scenes shot from many angles and perspectives always enticing the viewer. The movie formated its many sized heros and villians in one space convincingly. Tolkein's story was transformed into the beautiful movie without diluting the story's content or details. Afterall who can add to or take from Tolkein?
The actors were perfect representations of the book's characters. The uniqueness of the settings and characters was worth enjoying even without knowing the story. What a delight, worth every penny and then some. This is destined to be the movie both young and old will want to see again and again; especially if you left a bit of your heart in Middle Earth.
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Summary: A masterful presentation
Review: If you are even slightly interested in this set, then I assume that you have already seen this movie. So, we have an extended version of the film with four commentaries, and a 6 hours long pile of documentaries. Wow. First - the film. The extended version of the film. It's quite good. The new bits are nice - not essential, but nice. The gifting of the fellowship is perhaps the most significant scene here, quite nice. The commentaries are very good - this is a well-spoken group of people, and the producers of the commentary did a lot of judicious editing to keep the commentary from being just another rambling bunch of people telling each other things that only mildly interest the audience. I figure I'll finish watching the film with each commentary by the time the next deluxe set come out. The documentaries - wow. These are very well done, very interesting, not repetative as might be expected. Once again, they are quite good, and really worth your time to watch. The documentary on scale was particularly good. Once again, there is not much fluff here, the interviews are well edited and thoughtfully put together. The image quality is nice and charp throughout the whole set, and the sound quality is, of course, fantastic. My only complaint, and I will always complain about this, is the still picture galleries. Unless you have a giant tv with fantastic resolution, you just can't see the details of these pictures. You can't zoom in or pan around the pictures, you just have to look at them and wonder what kind of detail would be available to see if you could just zoom in. It's not a big problem, but it's a pet peeve of mine in many dvds out there. Enjoy!
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Summary: The Three "I"s: Intense, intimate, immortal
Review: If you are hesitating to see this movie, out of devotion to the books and the conviction that the movie is never as good as the book, it is time to take the dreaded step. Peter Jackson found the moral center and the theme to Tolkien's saga and successfully imbued his film with them. The cinematography is intense, focusing on telling the story of Frodo and the rest of the fellowship and also focusing on telling the larger story of Middle Earth. The acting is infallible. Every single actor is spot on and the pace of the movie informs their work with crackles. We see intimate moments where Frodo doubts himself, Bilbo almost gives in to temptation, and Arwen and Aragorn show their love. The theme of good versus evil is immortal, and depicted wonderfully, with no bows to gray perspectivalism, but with clear manifestations of the many forms of evil.
While there are characters and mini-subplots in the books that are omitted in the movies, they are of no consequence to the grand scheme of this cinematic epic.
This movie is highly recommended.
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Summary: THIS THING ROCKS AS DO ALL RING-NERDS!!!
Review: If you are interested in buying a movie (specifically a DVD) this summer this should be your #1 consideration! Chock full with new features this DVD combines a great movie with great extras. There is nothing wrong with this, as most movies seem to be, and if you don't like it is because you haven't read the book. If you are intersted in purchasing the DVD, and are worried about the price, Amazon just lowered it like 8 bucks so don't sweat about it. JUST BUY IT!!!
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Summary: Great movie - but you may want to wait for the extended dvd
Review: If you are looking at this page, you already know LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring is a great movie, so I won't bother reviewing the movie itself and rather will focus on the first dvd release. This DVD contains the cinematic version of the movie. As far as dvd's go, the extra content leaves a bit to be desired. The first disk contains only the movie. The second disk has featurettes from the official web site, the ... show about the movie, the ..."making of" special and some other footage. Unfortunately a lot of the the material is repeated from one feature to the next. Other bonus features include the Enya video, and a pre-view of the LOTR video game. There's also a behind the scenes look at the Twin Towers, and information about the extended DVD which will be released in November of 2002... The extended DVD will contain an extra 30 minutes of footage that was cut from the original version to keep it under 3 hours. It will also contain several commentaries from the director, crew, and cast, and contain 2 disks full of detailed behind-the-scene footage, story boards, picture galleries, etc. (For more information about the extended dvd, see the official website - lordoftherings.net.) True hardcore fans may buy this first version of the dvd and feel ripped off when they discover there's another one coming out in November with more stuff. However, it's been promised that the bonus material on the extended dvd will not be the same as the bonus features on the first one...also, the first dvd is the only one with the behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Two Towers and the cinematic version of the film. I suppose the case can be made for buying both, as each has a slightly different version of the movie. And if you're impatient you might not want to wait until November to get your LOTR fix.
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Summary: Great action, great vistas AND better humour than Tolkien
Review: If you ask an English professor about Tolkien's weaknesses, the chances are that, besides the 2D characters ascribed to women, they'll point out the pretty feeble attempts at humour in LotR. Eleventy-first birthday? Ridiculous and infantile. So I'm very pleased to report that whoever has written the screenplay for Peter Jackson has improved this aspect. They may have meddled with some of the minor details of who does what, but the jokes are clearly better than JRRT's. Most of it stems, as you would expect, from the hobbits. Elijah Wood's Frodo is pretty androgynous, and I particularly liked the scene in the mines of Moria where Gandalf says, "There's a lot more to Frodo than we all suspected,". Here Frodo unbuttons his shirt to reveal a glimpse of his mithril vest, but it's so glitzy that the unstated punch-line is "Yes, he likes wearing women's underwear!". Goodness knows whether the movie deliberately makes references to others. When Gandalf says emphatically to Frodo "Is it safe?", are we supposed to recall 'Marathon Man'? If so, why? After an initial battle sequence, the movie takes some time to get going while it sets up the plot in the Shire. My daughter got distracted. But as soon as the quest is begun, there is never a dull moment. The special effects are good, and it's good to see a competitor to Industrial Light & Magic. Slightly tedious after a while is the technique used to solve the scale problem for the face-to-face scenes between hobbits and larger people. The swirling effect whenever Frodo puts the ring on are brilliant. The soundtrack is particularly well done -- there is music for much, if not all, of the time, but it's not as overdone or glutinous as John Williams' work on 'The Phantom Menace'. Overall, this is the classic I hoped it would be. I'm going to see it again tomorrow!
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Summary: Beautiful, Brilliant, but Empty
Review: If you attend a feast and find yourself at a table of wonderfully beautiful foods, heap your plate full, and eat the most savory delicious meal you've ever had in your life, amid all the sumptuous smells rising from that delectable table, but then find, after you've left the banquet, that for some inexplicable reason your stomach is growling with hunger, as if it were completely empty, then you'll understand the experience of seeing The Lord of The Rings.
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Summary: Not to be Missed!
Review: If you can get past the 3 hour running time then go see Lord of the Rings. One of the most visually stunning, powerful films ever made. I have never read the book and was only interested in the film because of all the hype surrounding it. It is a masterpiece. Filled with riveting performances from Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchet, and most notabley Sir Ian Mckellan, as well as the rest of the mostly unknown cast. It's exciting, intense, and beautiful to watch. Yes, it is a long long movie, but barely noticable. Well worth it, and the only thing that makes me mad is that we all have to wait a whole year for the sequel.
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Summary: One Ring to Rule them All...
Review: If you didn't give this movie 5 stars, there's something wrong with you.
The Lord of the Rings is, in my opinion, the best book that could ever be written, and Peter Jackson did a wonderful job of bringing it to life. He went down to every little detail, satisfying both new and old fans of the trilogy.
I give you my word that if you buy this movie, you won't regret it. You'll love watching it over and over- as I have - and you'll never get tired of it.
So ignore all those dwimmerlaiks who say it's a bad movie- there's obviously something wrong with them.
Namarie!
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