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Summary: Excellent movie!!!!!!
Review: I still believe after the 2001 Academy Awards that The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring was jipped by A Beautiful Mind for Best Picture! Overall, The Lord Of The Rings is my FAV movie EVER, and Peter Jackson and the cast and crew deserved iot more that Ron Howard. Peter Jackson did an unbvelievable job on bringing the books to life, and im sure Tolkien in proud!:) The crew and WETA workshop did great special effects and great scripts, and the cats just acting sooooo well! I cant wait to see The Two Towers in December, and The Return Of The King next December! Tolkien and Peter Jackson........YOU ROCK!!!:)
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Summary: Why didn't this win Best Picture?!
Review: I still find "The Fellowship Of The Ring" to be much more spectacular, ingenious, and brilliant than the boring "A Beautiful Mind". But since Russell Crowe starred in "A Beautiful Mind"...you could already tell "A Beautiful Mind" would win Best Picture, even if he did not win Best Actor. I'll bet if Russell Crowe had starred in "The Fellowship Of The Ring" instead of "A Beautiful Mind", then "The Fellowship Of The Ring" would have won Best Picture! But anyway...back to this movie.What can I say that everybody else hasn't? "The Fellowship Of The Ring" deserves all the hype and praise it's gotten, hands down! For all you really clueless people who haven't been paying any attention, "The Lord Of The Rings" was a three-part trilogy written by the brilliant J.R.R. Tolkien, and follows the adventure of Frodo Baggins, a hobbit from the fictional Middle-Earth, as he destroys the One Ring, so the Dark Lord cannot take it and, with the Eleven Rings, become the most powerful and evil creature in the universe. The Academy voters must not appreciate fantasy films enough to give them important Oscars, and not just technical ones. There will be two editions of "The Fellowship Of The Ring", coming out on DVD at different times this year. The one that comes out late in November is the one that is longer with even more bonus feature footage and special features. But the DVD edition that is coming out this summer is supposed to be really good, too. The acting performances by the entire cast is absolutely superb--I especially have to praise the acting by Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, and Sean Astin. I am immediately going to purchase both DVD editions when they come out, and anticipating the release of "The Two Towers", coming out on December 18th. This film has everything--and it's for everybody! Peter Jackson has created a classic masterpiece! Everyone MUST see "The Fellowship Of The Ring"...but don't just wait 'til the DVD. It's a must-see on the big screen!
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Summary: Great Books make Great Movies
Review: I Strongly encourage everyone to go out and buy this movie and the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy.I hope Hollywood takes a que from the sucess of this movie and starts using more top-notch authors from which to derive their movies. A great book can be a great movie. Let Clancy and Tolkien lead the way.
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Summary: This is the greatest movie in the world!
Review: I suggest that you preorder this DVD immediately! The movie is an excelent mixture of action, adventure, romance and just pure coolness. It follows the book very closely, so if you've read the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you have to buy this! If you haven't even seen the movie, put your shoes on, grab your keys, and rush to the nearest movie theater to watch it. Just count on staying at the theater for a good three hours.
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Summary: A pleasant surprise; definitely a must-see for Tolkien fans
Review: I supressed my excitement when I first heard of The Lord of the Rings coming to theaters. I expected it to be simply another Hollywood action flick that would omit important parts of the story line and paint an inaccurate picture of what Tolkien intended in his book. However, I was very surprised and pleased when I finally did view the movie. I didn't notice any variances to the book, all important scenes were included, and the personalities of the characters were preserved remarkably well. My only problem with the movie is having to wait two more years to see the next two parts!
I highly recommend this movie to anyone familiar with Tolkien's trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings." Whether you are a huge fan or simply enjoyed reading the trilogy, the movie will be worthwhile. If you are not familiar at all with the book, I would not recommend seeing the movie, since it has no conclusion (it's only the first of three installments). You will only be left wondering why you wasted your three hours and six bucks.
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Summary: Flashy !! Very Flashy !!
Review: I suspect if I were ten years younger or alternatively had read Tolkein as a kid, then I would really love Lord of the Rings. The scenery in the movie is perhaps the most spectacular I have ever seen and the opening sequence grabs your interest.
That's why it's a pity somewhere around the middle of the movie it gets boring. Yes!! That's right. Boring!! It just becomes a series of fights against one monster after another.By the time you get to the fiery devil thingy that killed Gandalf, it's just one monster too many and you just pray for the movie to end.
It's not a bad movie but it's a trifle overblown.
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Summary: The movie left me begging for more
Review: I swear when i read the book i pictured everything smaller. The troll, the Balrog, even the Shire. I don't know what it is but this movie was a giant masterpiece. The movie went above and beyond set design, characterization, (with the exception of Aragorn, yea definately not jacked enough to be a ranger)and although I am not a fan of excessive "cgi" I enjoyed it in this film. The omitition of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow -Whight scene saddened me, and I can't say I liked Arwen's spontanous emergence in the plot, but hey, I guess you gotta please the other half of the audience, which also saddens me. I can't say I liked seeing Sauron in the flesh.
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Summary: Great content but slightly let down by the Argonath booksend
Review: I think everything that needs to be said has been said about the extended version of FOTR... it's possibly the greatest movie ever, perhaps until the EE of The Two Towers comes out or, gasp, The Return Of The King?
However that is not saying that this package is perfect. First of all, the National Geographic DVD is pretty badly made (unexpectedly). Practically all questions posed at the back of the case (which hinted at a great Disc) went unanswered and the one-hour disc appeared to me like just a collection of excerpts from various other programs put together for a fast buck (or two).
Secondly, the finish of the Argonath bookends leaves much to be desired. I must say the bookends are what tempted me so much to get this Collector's Gift Set but the finished product loses much detail (on faces, hands, etc. possibly from a careless casting process) and has quite a bit of casting residue on the body.
I am not a TCG player but the 3 cards in the set do look pretty cool.
All taken into consideration, I still can't bring myself to rating this any lower than 5 stars due to the sheer superiority of the DVD (minus that sorry excuse of a NatGeo DVD) content.
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Summary: Wait until November for the special edition
Review: I think if you really loved this movie then you should wait until November to buy the version with extra scenes and more special features. For less then 10 dollars more it's a better buy in the long run. If you haven't seen the movie yet read the book first so it will be less confusing. Liv Tyler's expanded role didn't bother that much but you have to admit she isn't beautiful or maybe it's bc they put way too much foundation on her so her face looks really cakey.
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Summary: Frodo Is Awesome
Review: I think it's great that they finally made a live action movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's book's. Frodo's adeventures are so awesome.
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