Rating: 
Summary: I'm now a fan for life
Review: LOTR trilogy was always a hot topic at my high school, but I never took the time to read the books. When I saw the first trailer, I went out & got it from the library. I read the first 3/4 of the book in 4hrs. I was enthralled.
The movie was amazing! I've never been so wrapped up in ANY movie. I could feel their feelings, see what they saw, etc. I was truely *wowed* After the movie was over, I was drained from being so invovled.
This is by far the best movie I have EVER seen! I highly recommend watching the movie, but read the book first. It makes it more interesting (in my opinion)
Rating: 
Summary: an awful movie
Review: LOTR was one of the worst movies I have ever seen! Don't waste your time or your money on it. Too long, too boring- I almost fell asleep. What a waste of a perfectly good 3 hours!! Usually, I really like movies that I see in the theater, but I hated this. I don't even want to see the other two. I feel bad for the hundreds of millions of dollars people have wasted on this movie.
Rating:
Summary: Masterpiece
Review: LOTR's is by far one of the best works of art to ever be penned onto paper. And just as JRRT saw his vision unfold as he wrote, Peter Jackson has expanded on that vision into something spectacular. This film has everything you would expect. It was filmed with the same passion in which it was written. I cannot wait until the Special Edition DVD comes out with 30 extra minutes of film. This was one film, no matter how long, you just don't want to end. Thankfully Jackson filmed all three films in this Trilogy together and will be bringing one film to theaters for the next two years and won't make us Wait the span of almost 30 years like G. Lucas has with Star Wars. Do yourself and see this movie, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Expected nothing less from Peter Jackson
Review: LOTR:FOTR is a movie I first looked like same stuff that has
been released in the past two years for sci-fi: great efforts,
great technological achivements, and a souless performances and
developments. But after the first time I watched I was very
pleased with Peter Jackson's and his crew made for the Tolkien
and non-Tolkien fans.I had read LOTR in highschool and it was a very good sci-fi
book with so much quality attached to it. And though no true
to the book the movie has as much quality as Tolkien's book. Despite all the critics you hear about them (good or bad) both
the book and the movie teach and inspire two great human values:
friendship and loyalty. Peter Jackson (a favorite movie director
of mine) delivers experience no one should miss!
Rating: 
Summary: Very long
Review: Lots of swords and arrows sticking into things, Christopher Lee looking like Rob Zombie, and some monsters with really awful dental work, but I can't seem to remember much else.
Rating:
Summary: `Nobody Tosses The Dwarf???!!'
Review: Loud and flashy, to distract you from the bad acting (from a great cast - what happened???), ham-handed direction, and an utter lack of heart. The overwhelming support this putrid film is getting showcases how very removed modern society is from the time in which this masterpiece of fiction was written - and from the author's original vision. This is a dumbed down, illiterate, `cool parts' skim of one of the most resonating books ever written. Not only is the whimsy and quaintness of the story completely forgotten, but the depth of characterization has been chucked in favor of meaningless aerial sweeps interspersed between moments of Dungeons and Dragons-like violence (not a knock to Gary Gygax -he could've written a better script). Every character under five feet is likewise given the short end of the stick (pardon). Gimili is turned from an honorable, stoic flintheart to a stereotypical bearded barbarian - alternately blubbering and uttering idiotic oaths (see the title of this review). Merry and Pippin's familial motivations for joining the quest are completely missing -they come across as a pair of dunderheaded frat boys - and Sam and Frodo are merely along for the ride as we are meant to `oo and aah' (as most of us did) to the CGI wizardry of Gandalf and friends. The Nazgul scream like banshees -more annoying than frightening, the battle of Weathertop features an amazing and ridiculous `Black Rider catches torch in his teeth and flounders about' shtick, and Sir McClellan's admittedly statuesque Gandalf faces yet another cartoon peril on the Bridge of Khazad Dum. Where was the re-forging of Anduril? Why did the Hobbits follow Strider blindly into the wilderness before learning he was Aragorn? Where was the gift-giving scene at Lorien? Why does Bilbo go all Roger Rabbit in one sequence? Does anyone care at all? Apparently not. What is most shameful is that this will be the definitive version of this story in the minds of children who have never read this glorious book and will be bored by its comparitively slow pace. My only hope is that the 30 minutes extra will explain all that went wrong with this shallow film. In four discs (for one movie!)I should hope Jackson would be able to do so.
Rating:
Summary: Fantasy at the finest!
Review: Love it...love it...love it...
Can't wait for the next movie!
Rating:
Summary: Quite good
Review: Loved it even more than I thought I would. First time in my life that I found the movie to be better than the book.
Rating:
Summary: Tomatoes and Bacon: a first-rate adventure
Review: Loved it! Gotta see the one next year! Excitement abound in this wonderful adventure that is full of beautiful scenery and scarily lifelike special effects. The weirdest thing, I thought, was how they got the hobbits to look short! That was cool! When you get into the theater, you become like a wide-eyed child. It's so amazing that some of it is really hard to believe. It's a little on the dark side, and, being 3 hours, slightly tedious until the end, but WOW it's great. Go and see this in the largest theater you can possibly go to within fair driving range. this is not to be wasted on VCRS or DVDs. Watch it now, while it's still on the big screen, larger and louder than life.
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Summary: why not full screen format
Review: Loved the extended version, but cant get DVD or VHS in full screen like we did with original release. Disappointing for those of us without widescreen TV.
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