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Summary: Great movie but lack behind the scene material
Review: If all you want is to see the movie then this will do just fine. But if you are looking for how the movie was made or deleted scenes wait for the extended version. The second CD that came with this version includes 3-4 networks coverage of the film before The Fellowship of the Ring hits the theater. Its like a trailer with a couple behind the scenes. It didn't even have the trailer to The Two Towers.
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Summary: Koxson
Review: If anything makes me sick, its this very trilogy.
Most trilogies make the first two movies good and the 3rd movie rubbish; Back to the future, Jaws, Terminator, Matrix, Blade. However, this trilogy, with all its hours for one story, couldn't even do that, let alone the 3 I hoped for.
Granted 'Fellowship of the ring' had me. But I had hoped to see Frodo stare, wide-eyed, at the same king knocking everyone about in 'Fellowship' by the end of return of the king. I did not want to see a big animal-like eye which had to be ripped off from the Lion-o sword as seen on 'Thundercats'. The wars were useless and a bit pointless as neither had anything to do with the ring being destroyed.
I would have been so much happier if they threw another 25-30 mins into 'Fellowship' and let Frodo fight Sam over throwing the ring into the volcano.... and then let either of the two throw it in.
If you want to see some green and some special effects. If need to stare at something for hours because you have nothing better to do and hope to feel a connection to other human beings due to its awards and some mild depression. This movie might be okay therapy for you.
Lloyd Harris
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Summary: Good book, finaly on the screen of your TVs.....
Review: If are are too lazy to read that great master peace as a book, I would sugest you to buy that DVD and watch all the following parts of LOTR. It is really good staging with the well chosen actors and amazing SFX. I think anyone would find some pleasure from watching that movie. And final decision left to you.
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Summary: Film is Great, Bookends are Pathetic!
Review: If I were rating the film only, I'd give 5 stars, hands down. The bookends I got, however, are pathetic. My Isildur has some sort of a growth on his chin, and wobbles on a flat surface. These are not heavy enough to hold books. They can hold the DVD's perhaps, but not books. Also, the paint job is nowhere near what it should be. The bookends in the photo seem to be nicely highlighted. Mine are highlighted on the top only, and I am sorely tempted to redo the paint job myself, and re-base them so they can be used as the bookends they are advertised to be.
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Summary: Flashy But Flawed
Review: If I were to describe this movie in a word, it would be "fluff." "Lord of the Rings - the Fellowship of the Ring" is full of eye candy with dazzling cinematography, costumes and makeup. It also has some fairly good action scenes.Unfortunately, this is all there is to this movie. The plot is so convoluted as to be impossible to follow. One has the feeling that the film makers were trying to adapt too much story for the amount of movie time, and they broke a lot of simple rules in so doing. Potentially interesting characters come into play for only a scene or two, then are never seen again with no explanation as to what happened to them or why they were written out of the plot. It is impossible to follow the names of the characters as they are not spoken often or clearly enough in the dialogue. Which leads to another problem with the film: The sound. Watching the movie on DVD, I felt like the guy in the hearing aid commercial sitting with his wife in the movie theater,constantly asking, "What did he say?" Not only do the actors constantly mumble their lines, but the background music is so loud at times as to overpower the dialogue making it impossible to understand! I found myself several times stopping my DVD and backing up to try to catch what had been said. This also has to have among the top five *worst* endings of any movie ever made. I undertand that the producers want us to watch the next film in the series, but puh-lease! It would be hard to divulge the ending in this review, because ... there wasn't one. It was as if they ran out of film halfway through making the movie! Generally a fun and pretty fantasy, but spoiled by the very confusing storyline divergences, choppy dialogue and complete lack of character development. Not since "Dune" have I seen a movie that I had such a difficult time following.
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Summary: If it's just half as good as the book.....
Review: If it's just half as good as the book, it'll be great. The producers have to contend with, and satisfy, our imaginations, which is a tall order. You would be hard pressed to put the trilogy into six hours on screen. Of course it can't be done, but I will shell out the money to watch just the same. I have not seen another movie with such stunning details and modeling as shown in the still photos of the Fellow Ship of the Ring. I am re-reading the Hobbit and the trilogy in preparation for the movie(s). Now, when will they release the DVD......??
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Summary: Walt Disney would be proud
Review: If its a sword movie you want to see, don't waste your time
Not a drop of blood is spilled in this entire film.
It's way too slow, the special effects look like they were bought a Kmart, there are no memorables lines/quotes.
If you like Walt Disney films this movie is for you.
If you want to see great battles with swords you will be very disappointed.
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Summary: New Zealand has never been a better place to live.
Review: If overseas audiences were excited over Lord of the Rings, you should have seen us New Zealanders. We were pretty much dancing in the streets when we weren't flocking to the movie theatres. There's no more 'New Zealand is such a boring place to live', we're now the most patriotic we've ever been since World War Two, as we ring out in praise of Peter Jackson and co.
And we have good reason to, as everyone everywhere seems to love/adore/worship this movie. Now everyone's heading back to the theatres to see the 5-10 minute preview of The Two Towers, and Peter Jackson's promised us that either the Two Towers, or Return of the King will be premiered right here in NZ.
Well I'll say what everyone else's been saying - great story, fantasic cast, wonderful costumes, incredible set design, awe-inspiring landscape, and WOW special effects. In everyone's opinions we didn't nearly pick up enough Oscars, especially in the catagories for screenplay and costume - (we had little old ladies knitting chain mail for goodness sake!) but there's two more to come, so we'll just hold out for them.
We've gone from the country that was the home of sheep to a place where we can look to the horizon and say - "Look! There's Mount Caradhras!" If you want to see it for yourself, come on over - we've never been in a better moood!
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Summary: Transporting, fanscinating and frantic......
Review: If Peter Jackson's spectacular take on the first installment of The Lord Of The Rings just about stops short of being overwhelming, its still a noble and for the most part highly successful attempt to bring celluloid life to Tolkien's mythology. As such it should leave all but the most hardcore Tolkienites satisfied. Jackson has breathed remarkable life in to Middle-Earth and Tolkien's potentially rather holky mythology. The film wants to make us believe - and generally succeeds. This is a truly fantastic land, populated by all manner of weird and wonderful creatures. Infact, so large is the canvas on which he is working, it is to Jackson's credit that his character's are not simply subsumed by it. Both Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Ian Holm manage their roles nobly and convincingly. None are really aloud to blossom since the plethora of exposition required at this stage in the story means that virtually every scene requires dialogue to basically lay down the rules of the land and its mythology - little time is left for characteristion which may have given it more resonance. As it stands, the actors occasionally come across more as authorial mouth-pieces than actual characters. Shot on location in Jackson's native New Zealand, the film features some of the most indelible visuals to be brought to the screen in a long time - both real and computer generated. And this is the film's most resouding success - it really does take you to another world and make you want to explore it further. This is no mean-feat to be sure, but there's something rather frantic about the cramming of exposition and in to every corner of the movie - it seems to lack respite - which is neccessary in a three hour picture. One hopes that the next film will gives itself a little more breathing room. As for this one, I guess the best you can say is that Tolkien would have been pleased.
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Summary: A home version of the best fantasy movie ever
Review: If Star Wars has showed the world what the best Science Fiction movie is, The Lord of the Rings did the same in Fantasy. If you like Fantasy, you already know that it's a must-have, and you will definitly want to have it in your home collection. If you don't like Fantasy, you'd still buy it to your home collection as the best representative of the fantasy movies.
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