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Summary: Simply The Best.......
Review: The best fantasy film I have ever seen (and I have seen it 3 times now). Really looking forward to The Two Towers this year.
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Summary: Awsome
Review: The best Fantasy in Years, a must own!!! The acting is suberb and the script is great. Buy it and go this number 2 (12/18/02)!
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Summary: The best
Review: The best movie I have ever seen. The only problems I have with it are two fold, A: we waited three hours for an ending that left you saying "what the?", granted if you are literate you know that LOTR is a "trilogy" so to speak so we will get the ending, but two years from now!! and B: I found it INCREDIBLY helpful to have read the books beforehand, not so much for the story line and plot, but for the names of people and places. A friend of mine did not get most of them at all.
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Summary: the best movie of 2001
Review: The best movie of 2001 was Defintly Lord of the Rings-The fellowship of the rings. The speaical effects and acting in this movie was simply amazing. The story was great and it followed the book exactly(but a lot shorter). The characters were amazing in this movie and the Elvin archer is the coolest guy in movie history. This movie shouldve won every academy award it was nominated for. I recomend to buy this movie the day it comes out then wait 3 months till the second one comes out in theaters.
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Summary: The Lord of the Movies
Review: The best movie of 2001, and one of the best ever made, you do not have to be a J.R.R. Tolkien fan to enjoy this movie. All you need to enjoy "The Lord of the Rings" is the ability to let this movie sweep your imagination away.I have never read a J.R.R. Tolkien book before, much less any of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I new little of middle-earth or the inhabitants of it. When the movie first came out, I initially did not intend to see it because I believed that I would not be able to enjoy it without first reading the books it was based on. A friend talked me into seeing it anyway, and for that I am grateful. There is little about this movie that is not to like. The battle sequences flow seamlessly, the storyline doesn't insult your intelligence yet is easy to follow, the special effects are bar raising, and the acting is some of the best ever seen. The Widescreen DVD edition of this movie is a 2 DVD set, with the second DVD containing hours of special features, including three production epics, theatrical trailer and TV spots, Enya's music video, and several features that can only be accessed through your computer and lordoftherings.net. Don't wait for whatever final collection will be released after all three movies have played. Get this one now. You can always upgrade later.
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Summary: My comments of the best movies!
Review: The best movie that I liked is lord of the ring. It just reminds you that friendship can always last forever, and that we should help each other no matter what.For me it isn't only because it's popular and that everybody in the world liked it.The best part is when Sam keeps an eye on Frodo, that he wants his best friend to be alright. Elijah Wood is very good at actor it made me cry and he managed to talk much and remember, everybody likes Elijah Wood and me to its like he got faith in himself. The worse part well that is a little hard cause i dont think it has something wrong. It was a little scary when orches came, it felt like real. Everybody was great, even Legolas is wonderful.
Everybody is beutifull, lovely and good actors.Many hugs to Elijah Wood and everybody!
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Summary: Blows "Star Wars" series out of the water
Review: The best way to realize a great film nowadays is to count the number of Oscars it DIDN'T win. The cocaine addicts who pat themselves on the back every mid-February with self-praising odes are simply minions of Hollywood, our Earth's equivalent of Mordor. They know nothing of what a great film consists. Needless to say, I admit I was a bit hesitant to give this film a chance, fearing it would parallel too close to the Harry Potter disasters. Fortunately, I was wrong. The film's effects were state-of-the-art, of course, but the effects were never used to disguise a plotless script. Plot was plentiful, and you actually connect with almost every character in one way or another. Gandalf's fall in Moria was probably the saddest part in the film, and he wasn't one of my favorite characters to begin with. The scenery is amazing, and the movie's basic concept of good vs. evil is taken to astounding new levels. Peter Jackson executed not only a fantastic directing job, but has with him a superb cast of highly talented but rarely heard of actors and actresses. More power to them. It's nice to see an occasional film in which theatrical talent actually exists, unlike the vast majority of recycled garbage that passes through the bowels of southern California nowadays.
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Summary: Not bad, not good
Review: The biggest problem I have is with Liv Tyler as Arwen and I can only help but think that she was cast because the brunette girl from the Saved by the Bell TV show had a previous commitment. I've been wondering where the daughter of Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler came by her bogus English accent and hearing her in the extra features segments being her actual Valley girl self makes me believe she spent untold hours with a dialogue coach. The character of Arwen does no more in the book than wait around to be married, but the reason for her elevation to Frodo's saviour is cynically simple. LOTR has always fared poorly amongst females and New Line Cinema has made an obvious attempt to draw more women into the theaters by heightening her role. It doesn't hurt that chick flick cliches were written into the story by Tolkien himself (long before they were cliches) such as the Elven princess and her romance with the ragged wanderer. Pass the hankies please.
Peter Jackson also ruins the Mirror of Galadriel scene (he ruins a few other scenes but I don't have the space for a detailed criticsm) by having Galadriel turn into a poltergeist. It might have helped if a better looking actress than Cate Blanchett had been cast; .....
Mostly what surprised me was how derivative this movie is. The Uruk-hai look like Darth Maul of Star Wars, the little we see of Gollum makes him out to be first cousin of the old Crypt Keeper puppet from Tales of the Crypt, and the "wizards's duel" between Gandalf and Saruman is simply an excuse for Matrix-like special effects. But most of all it's clear that Jackson is a fan of Braveheart. I saw that movie not long ago and you can see the echoes of the Gibson film constantly in FOTR, especially in battle scenes but also in costumes.
Forget the "DVD extras". We've seen this garbage before. Actors tell you how great the director is, the director effusively praises his special effects team and before long we're drowning in a sycophantic cesspool. I had to laugh when Jackson pompously states that the printed LOTRis to be the authority and when anyone questions if something is appropriate to the movie he says "it's in the book". Tell me Peter, where is it in the book that Arwen rescues Frodo or Strider leaves the hobbits alone on Weathertop? I can name dozens of such examples, but this review is getting too long as it is.
There are things to like in this movie tho. The scenery is lush and makes Middle Earth considerably more appealing than Bakshi's 1979 cartoon film. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, Ian McKellan as Gandalf and Elijah Wood as Frodo give strong performances. Sometimes (very few times unfortunately) Jackson's vision helped me see Tolkien's work in a different light. But please take other reviews of this movie with a grain of salt. If this is the height of filmmaking at the turn of the millenium then I'd rather go back into my hobbit hole.
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Summary: Finally, something to test the senses
Review: The book has been around for over 40 years, and yet not one person has successfully put out a movie depicting the great trilogy. Now that has all changed! For booklovers, you'll find this movie left out some elements that we all liked from the book, but they have done a great job describing in great detail the key elements of the Followship of the Ring. Tolkien's seemly random stories (and songs) might have been left out, but the detail remains. Each character is described, and acts, just like I always imagined they would. If you've read it, then you know the ending :) For those seeing this for the first time, you'll be learning about the greatest fantasy story of all time! And in the end... All I can say is, it makes you wish it was Dec. 2002! Simply put, go see this movie. If there is one movie you will see this year, make it The Lord of The Rings. If there are two movies you'll see this year... see it twice!
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Summary: About fifty times better than the book.
Review: The book has been praised lavishly. Certainly, some of this praise is deserved, however the book is about a hundred pages too long, and takes much to long to get the story moving. Worst of all, the book's characters break out into fruity songs more often than the cast of Cats. None of these problems are present in the movie. The pacing is perfect, and the action is fantastic. This is Tolkien the way he only wished he could tell stories.
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