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Summary: BORING
Review: This film, and it's sequel, were a nice reminder never to beleive any hype in the media when it comes to movies, no matter how pompous. This film is was mass-comsumption, like a Big Mac. The characters were so simple and undeveloped, that the film quickly becomes boringly, annoyingly predictable, no matter what fight, fantasy 'people', or any other situation turns up.
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Summary: Tedious
Review: I'm glad I got it cheaply at a flea-market.
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Summary: If you don't have this dvd..BUY IT NOW!
Review: Simply put the best dvd ever! The movie is phenomenal and they stay very true to the book (although there are some slight revisions...i.e. Arwen's bigger role in the movie & the wizard's fight). I have the original version that came out in August last year and then got the extended one for x-mas and w/o a doubt the extended one is better. Scenes like the gift giving in Lothlorien have been included (since the gifts given play a role in the next two films) and so much documentary and behinds the scenes footage on the other two discs. Spectacular movie and a definite must see!
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Summary: Can you say "overhyped" boys and girls?
Review: Having read the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was a teenager, I wasn't impressed with the story. I thought I would give the movie a try thinking that maybe there may be something, alas I was wrong. I cannot fathom which movie most of these reviewers were watching, but I didn't see that movie. No, the movie I saw was a poorly written, poorly acted, special effects mayhem bore. This movie is simply a carbon copy of the typical fare coming from Hollywood these days. Dazzle them with special effects and distract them from the really bad script. Or maybe, no one really cares about that.For those that love fantasy, I recommend what a previous reviewer said. Willow is an excellent choice. I also recommend Conan The Barbarian (if there are some in a cave that have not seen it) As for a great fantasy book series, nothing beats the Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever series by Stephen R. Donaldson. Run, do not walk to your local library or bookstore and read all 6 books. You will not regret it. Lord of the Dings can be safely skipped without serious consequences.
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Summary: It was missing something...
Review: The movie was fun to watch but I couldn't really get into the characters or even care what happened to them. If would have been better if they were more developed. It was fun to watch but not the greatest movie.
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Summary: Lord of The Rings - Extgended Version
Review: I waited, I waited,,,,I anxiously waited for the extended versions release. It is NOT worth the money! It is not worth the money to watch any movie with the Aspect Ratio(s) of Widescreen anamorphic - 2.35:1. Especially, this movie. To release it in this format only for this price is a a crime.
If Stuart Little 2 can at offer both versions on one CD for only $13.95 why can't LoTR extended version do the same for $29.00. Sure you get the full view of the movie horizontally as intended by the film maker. But if you like the vertical picture to fill only HALF the size of your TV screen when watching go ahead and buy it. I tried watching it on my 50inch big screen and it made every charactor look like a hobbit from 4 feet away! Hey, thats an idea. Let just put on the box 'ok' for children under 4. They like to sit 2 feet from the screen when watching TV. And they would just love everything looking like little hobbits. - My take, im outta here. `jd
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Summary: Fun and Geeky, but LONG
Review: Before every swords & sorcery geek in all of Middle Earth cast a spell on me and turn me into a chicken or something...let me just say that I ADMIT that I'm in the strange minority that didn't really enjoy this film. I don't know what it is...it just does nothing for me (except induce deep sleep and cause my buttocks to go numb after prolonged exposure to the seat I've been in for the last 20394830 hours watching this thing). It was fun and even interesting in some varied parts. The visual style of the film is quite impressive. The digital effects are seamless. Elija Wood plays a heroic hobbit, and the rest of the actors are also extreemly well-cast. It was fun and entertaining and I'm not such a cynic that I can't say I enjoyed some of it. I just find this type of stuff to be boring and pretentious. This film tries too hard to be epic and important. In the immortal words of David Spade (who I actually [don't like]), "It's called an editor...HIRE ONE!"
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Summary: About what I expected
Review: I'd just like to have it on record that there are some people out here who don't think that The Fellowship of the Ring was a good film. I think it was badly written, badly directed, and highly overrated. Peter Jackson may be a great fan of the Lord of the Rings, but his view of the book must be very different to mine.
To establish my LOTR credentials, I've read the book many times, plus all the drafts and variants as edited by J.R.R. Tolkien's son Christopher. Does this make my criticism any more worthy than anyone else's? No; but I am a fan of the book who doesn't like what has been done to it in the film adaption.
I accept that books have to be adapted to some extent to meet the demands of a visual, rather than written, storytelling style. And for the first half hour or so of this film I thought it was pretty good. Unfortunately, it all went downhill from there.
The production team do deserve praise for the locations, sets, and art designs. The casting was so-so. However, these were overshadowed for me by a host of other problems.
The main problem I found was pacing. This film was so slow and boring, I found myself sitting there grimly thinking "I know the point this has to get to . . . how much longer can it possibly be?" Jackson spent way too long on lingering shots of the landscape, Elijah Wood's face, people hanging from precipices and drowning, activities at Isengard, and pointless fight/action sequences that weren't even in LOTR. The result is that plenty of time was wasted that could have been used to explain and ground the narrative better, or to establish the characters. I know the story very well, and it seemed to me that the film was difficult to follow, with no real sense given of how vitally important the activities of the fellowship were, or even of how much time was passing. Where Jackson did change the story for his film (in plot, characters, etc.), it seems to me that he did so to no good purpose; none of the changes (of which there are a great deal) actually made Fellowship of the Ring a better story or a film. It's like Jackson can't see the wood for the trees. His film is more like a collection of elements and vignettes than a coherent story that has real respect for its source material.
The fact that someone dared to make a live-action film of LOTR does not automatically mean that what they made was a good film. I'm very tired of all the hype. It's unjustified. And as for all the merchandising . . . I don't think I'm unjustified in thinking that J.R.R. Tolkien must be turning in his grave.
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Summary: Lord of Filmmakers
Review: Peter Jackson has again shown his genius. As if the theatrical version of the Fellowship of the Rings wasn't brilliant enough, Mr. Jackson has outdone himself with the extended version of one of the best films of all time. The additional 30 minutes of the film were seamlessly inserted into the original and they add greatly to the overall effect of the film. The additional scenes in Hobbiton and the sequence where the gifts of Galadriel are revealed were particularly beautifully done. Of course, I am a fan of Cate Blanchett, so I would like to see as much of Galadriel as possible in the three films.
I purchased both the theatrical version, as well as, the extended version and I was not disappointed by either. I look forward to similar dual releases for the Two Towers, which I saw last weekend. Although darker and more violent, it is even better than the Fellowship..., if that is possible. Thank you Peter Jackson, thank you New Line and thank you to the magnificent cast and crew who have brought Professor Tolkien's masterpiece to film. I have been waiting for this for 30 years.
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Summary: Simply the best ever.
Review: I say this with all sincerity: this is the best DVD ever made.
Watching this extended edition of the film is like going from TV to full theatrical wide-screen-- there's just more there, sometimes just a detail, other times a whole plot-point. But given the mastery displayed in the theatrical release, it could only be expected that an extended edition would make a good thing better. The real victory here is in the documentaries and additional material. These are the best documentary pieces I've seen on a DVD. Best of all, the documentaries aren't 'dumbed-down'-- these are some (some? they go on forever!) smart, well-articulated interviews with the makers of the film. And they make this box-set soar!
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