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Summary: Bored of the Rings
Review: Even though I am not a fan of the Hobbit series I normally look forward to a three hour blockbuster if it is reasonably well edited, has characterisation and plot developement, and some flashy special effects. 'Pearl Harbour' seemed to have some of these things even though it wasn't a great film. With Lord of the Rings all I noticed was pretty sets with no logical or developmental scene setting, characters that sounded, and made me feel like taking, a Mogadon, a no sense plot and literally oceans of screen time in which absolutely nothing happened either to give proper characterisation or make you care about any of the characters- it felt like going from one pretty postcard to another pretty postcard whilst being stuck in an airport lounge waiting a long long time for something to take off. I took my mum and though we don't have the same taste in film we found ourselves verbally parodying the incessant banality long before we walked out. If you are going to film a book word for word then you should make sure it has some narrative drive at least, and surely aim it at an audience who havn't read the sorce material as well as those that have.And 'based on the book' should mean the director using an imaginative adaptation as well. Many great works of literature have not been filmed succesfully because they cannot be literally transcribed, such as 'Tristram Shandy' and 'Ulysees'. I am afraid Lord of the Rings falls into that category.The ending wasn't bad, but this reviewer couldn't last the distance.
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Summary: Much better then the theatrical release
Review: This is a great DVD. The extended and new scenes bring the movie much closer to the book. Unfortunately some things from the book never made it into the movie. This was a highly entertaining DVD. I'm looking forward to The Two Towers.
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Summary: Masterpiece of adaptation
Review: Easily the most visually stunning film of 2001, it's worth owning for the special effects alone. Yet even more remarkable is the success with which Jackson and his team managed the process of adaptation. This seems to have been achieved through two things. First, casting and performances which are utterly flawless, perfectly capturing the essence of the characters - the loving warmth of the hobbits, the isolated nobility of Aragorn, and the tragic weakness of Boromir. Secondly, an elegant and economical screenplay which excises, reworks or re-imagines whole chunks of the novel, without doing any real violence to the story. Indeed, if anything, it is improved by the changes - I certainly found it more exciting, more gripping, and more moving. This is what an adaptation should be: not a simple translation from page to screen, but a transposition from one register to another, making the film the occasion for a new imaginative experience without losing the qualities for which the novel is so loved. That's no mean feat - and if there were any justice in Hollywood, come Oscar-time this spectacularly successful effort would have been more amply rewarded. For my money, it left "A Beautiful Mind" in the dust.
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Summary: J.R.R Tolkens creation rocks!
Review: I had no idea what the "Lord of the Rings" or "The Hobbit" was like until I watched the movies and read what books I could get my hands on. I watched the movie and fell in love with the plots, characters, and stories. This is a definate must see!
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Summary: The extended DVD is a better film.
Review: I am a Tolkien fan, yes, but hopefully a fairly sophisticated one--I should hope that I at least the ability to play a rather sophisticated role with a somewhat focused air of verisimilitude. When I first began to see the ads for this film, serious doubts began to creep up and I began to worry that New Line Cinema might be adamant about deleting certain key scenes. Not my own personal favorite scenes, mind you, but scenes vital to the growth of the characters and the movement of the story. The film couldn't recreate the opulence of Tolkien's prose, and there was the possibility that this film might be absolutely abysmal trash. (Which some do indeed consider it to be.) I saw the theatrical release when it came out, and enjoyed it thoroughly, but it was as I feared: several key scenes had indeed been deleted, such as the fellowship's departure from Rivendell and Gimli's infatuation with the Elf-queen, Galadriel. In the book, this cast Gimli as a sensitive soul, something one would not expect from a dwarf of his stature and from the past history between the elves and the dwarves and their propensity towards detestation against one another. The pacing of the film, too, was unfortunately mixed in some areas, and made for a slightly less than smooth experience overall.But as I said, I did enjoy it and was looking forward to what I heard was the extended DVD, with more material not yet seen. As it turns out, the film as presented on this extended version is actually a much better film than the original release; the pacing is much smoother, and more scenes are added, more time given to the development of the characters. (The character development in the theatrical release was, to my utmost frustration and vexation, rather shoddy. They simply weren't given enough time on screen to develop.) This is an excellent film that raises itself above the usual disappointing Hollywod rubbish, and it does so using its own strength and not merely relying upon the veritable broken dam of hype that a film like this invariably becomes attached to. Peter Jackson has done an excellent job interpreting this book onto the screen, and an equally excellent job skeletonizing the 400-page book into a screenplay less than half that length, and while Tolkien's book is indeed better than the film, this is a film with many qualities; hopefully, this three-piece saga will become a burgeoning epic, and once seen in its entire fruition, that this will perhaps be looked upon as a worthwhile cinematic masterpiece. For my own part, though, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Summary: My Favorite Movie
Review: Excellent movie, became my #1 movie after I saw it. Can't wait for the next two.
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Summary: Best movie ever!!!
Review: I loved this movie before I got the extended DVD and I love it even more now. The new and extended scenes are awesome. Especially since there is more Legolas. We also get to see Legolas speak more elvish. The cast commentary is great. The actors who play the Hobbits are extremely funny. All the behind the scenes features are great. One of the best things on this DVD set is hidden on the first disc is the LotR skit MTV did on their Movie awards with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jack Black. This is a great movie and a great extended DVD set.
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Summary: Yawn-fest
Review: This review is really a warning to anyone who isn't specifically interested in that fairies, wizards and magic kind of fiction. If you don't like that sort of stuff, DO NOT attempt to watch this. I tried twice and I just could not get through it. There were just too many little things that bothered me and that I had to roll my eyes at. The worst part of this ordeal is that the movie moves SO slowly and it's SO long!
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Summary: Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring Review
Review: This film is really great! It has many different worlds that you can watch and fell that you are there. For example Orcs, Wizards, Elfs, and much more!!! This is only the first film out of three. Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring has a very talented main character that this film is greatfull to have Elijah Wood!!! Elijah Wood also will be in all three of the Lord of the Rings films. Elijah Wood also stared in The Adventures of Huck Finn, Flipper, Oliver Twist, and so many more!!! I think that even though this film has so wicked and scarry parts in it, it is still a very good film over all. People who have kids that get scarred easily should not see this film but many people love this film and if you like Harry Potter you will love this film!!!! I suggest you see it today!!!!
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Summary: I'd go with Harry Potter myself....
Review: It wasn't a patch on the book. 3+hrs of mindless drivel, that suceeded in numbing my brain better than 1000mg of Codine. If you must buy the Lord of the Rings, well at least you're looking at the Special collectors edition (Hence 1 Star rater than 0). It seams that film makers have decided that the only thing you need nowadays is an epic scale, special effects and John Williams-esque sound track. Personally I'm sticking with J.K. Rowling, at least Tolkien wasn't arround to witness the Bastardization of one of the Litery greats of all time. I judge a good film by whether you notice the time going in, unfortunately both I and my [...] where painfully aware of the time passing.
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