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Summary: The best live action movie i've ever seen!
Review: This movie is by far the best live action movie ever and extrordinary unique and no other movie close to it!!The movie has very amazing scenery and music is very good.The fantasy and adventure in this movie is BY FAR SURPASSES ANY MOVIE i've ever seen.If I could I'd give this a bonus star if it were optional.
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Summary: this review actually refers to the VHS...
Review: ok. i bought Lord of the Rings on VHS because the movie was magnificent and i did not at the time have a DVD player. Big mistake. The film to tape transfer is terrible and the special effects that in the film were vivid and realistic now look cheap and poorly done. The Riders in the scene with the water horses look like paper cut outs and even the opening sign that says "Lord of the Rings" looks like dull plastic. If you enjoyed to film for the special effects, do not buy this VHS tape. Maybe if you never saw it in the theater or on DVD you wouldn't notice, but overall it is not worth it. It's like they made the VHS crappy on purpose so people would buy the DVD. Now I have a DVD player, and Lord of the Rings on DVD, and am very pleased. But the VHS is a dulled down version that shames the intricacies of the creative process behind the film.
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Summary: Absolute 5 stars! It doesn't get any better!
Review: I'm not kidding on this. Those who bought the theatrical release edition of "Lord of the Rings" will be sorry once they check out this absolutely amazing extended edition. "The Fellowship of the Ring" is not only one of the greatest fantasy films ever made. It's one of the greatest films ever made PERIOD! After having read the book so many times, after watching the movie so many times, this edition is just the thing I need to keep myself busy while waiting for the release of parts 2 and 3. The first two discs contain the whole movie, with an extra 35 minutes that includes, among other things, an extended introduction narrated by Bilbo Baggins. The picture and sound quality had never been so perfect, but even more amazing are the special features, contained in the other two discs. More than 3 hours of documentaries explaining each and every step of the making of the film, as well as the works of that genius J.R.R. Tolkien. Of the four diferent audio commentaries the one I enjoyed the most was the one with the cast members (although I admit that the one with Peter Jackson has much more information about the film). By the way, what about Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)? Why wasn't he on that commentary track? Anyway, I'm really excited about this edition and I think any fan of the movie (or the book for that matter) should be too. It's just perfect in every sense. Don't hesitate another moment. Maybe with this we can forget the fact that we are still 2 years away from having the whole trilogy in our hands!
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Summary: N/A (Speechless)
Review: I don't even have the vocabulary to explain how wonderful this extraordinary movie was. All I have to say is I am taking a day off of work this December the 18th to endulge in the second of this incredible trilogy. I assure you that if you do the same you will not be dissapointed. LOTR fan forever!
~BMG
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Summary: Great movie, disappointing special features
Review: The many "special" features on this DVD all look like they were shot in one go in the director's office. When I saw "J.R.R. Tolkien documentary" on the list, I naturally expected something along the lines of the History Channel documentary about the real Pearl Harbor that the Pearl Harbor DVD included as one of its special features. I thought maybe a Bravo or A&E biography of the man would be included. But no, the director has a penchant, if not exactly a flair, for late night TV talk show style pontification, and he isn't going anywhere as long as they are filming features for this DVD. Bummer. I wish they had gone to real lifetime experts, historians and biographers to put these and other special features together. Hollywood celeb jibber jabber is so omnipresent in our culture, thanks largely to cable TV. It is sort of depressing to see it insinuating itself here, even, in a purported documentary about a veddy British Oxford don who achieved nothing less than the synthesis of a whole mythology. (One can practically hear the encounter between director and author now, if Tolkien was still with us. "You'll always make a beautiful dollar in this business, J. R. Baby, and I mean that sincerely.")
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Summary: Best Movie Ever Made.....Best DVD Ever Made.....
Review: .....what more could a movie buff ask for in life? THE FILM I have been a fantasy fan all my life, and "The Hobbit" is my favorite book ever (I haven't actually read "The Lord of the Rings" yet). I saw the 1977 animated film of "The Hobbit" (unfortuanately long before I read the book), and thought it was pretty good. But it's the worst movie ever made compared to...THIS. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" isn't only the best (by far) fantasy movie ever made, but also the GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME. NO QUESTIONS ASKED. It really is perfect in every way. The cast is perhaps the best ever assembled for a film. All are excellent actors, and Ian McKellen should've won Best Actor. He isn't Ian McKellen anymore...He IS Gandalf the Grey. Christopher Lee is a delight to see as the sinister Sarumon the White. He is definitely the finest villain ever to hit the big screen. Viggo Mortenson is perfectly cast as Aragorn, John Rhys-Davies as Gimle. . .you name it. And who can forget Elijah Wood as the ringbearing Frodo Baggins? I CERTAINLY CAN'T. The musical score by Howard Shore is the best ever to fill your ears. It's so good, it'll send shivers up your spine! The special effest are phenominal, especially in decepting the ranges in size with the hobbits and the "Big Folk". The scenery is absolutely gorgeous...I have to go to New Zealand at least once in my lifetime. Yesssirreee, "LOTR" is what movies are meant to be. Since way back then in the late 1890s, when the first motion picture was made, movies have never been better, and never will be again (except for maybe the next two installments). THE SPECIAL EXTENDED EDITION DVD I did not think it was possioble to improve perfection, but low and behold, it has been done! The newly added/extended scenes add a lot to the movie, and give the film an even greater sense of an "epic". The only problem, and I mean ONLY, is that the sound is pretty awful in the new scenes, and one must view them several times with subtitles before you understand what they're saying. The special features are the best ever put onto film. The best way to view them is to spend the whole day just going from Disc 3 to Disc 4, hitting the "Play All" button on each, and view all the documentaries in order, as one big feature. It's fascinating stuff; tne cast interviews are hillarious and very informative, as are all the other documentaries. Watching them makes you realize just how much work really went into bringing this masterpiece to life, and you end up admiring the film even more. BUY IT TODAY!...
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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: HOW BORING!!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie had to be one of the most boring movies i have ever seen. I did not care to see it in theaters and wasn't going to rent it but one of my friends said it was a good movie. So i rented it and I had to turn it off in the middle of the movie, it was so boring, the scenes werent moving I would have much rather watched Harry Potter which is way better than this geek movie. Save your money and buy/rent another movie!!!!
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Summary: All time favorite
Review: I've seen a lot of movies and I have a lot of favorites. But this one takes the cake. Lord of the Rings is my all time favorite movie. I don't watch a lot of fantasy type of movies but LOTR completely surprised me. It is soo good. I enjoyed the action, comedy, romance, adventure, and the special effects a lot. Every actor and actress portrayed their characters perfectly. They all did a superb job. I might as well add that Legolas was my favorite character along with Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Arwen (Liv Tayler). It's good to see a female elf that kicks ass!
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Summary: The ultimate fantasy film, but extended version even better
Review: The Fellowship of the Ring is by far a five-star film and has set the pace (I hope) for all future fantasy films. In the past fantasy films fell into one of two categories: Category 1-Good, but too light (not serious enough):
Examples being movies like "Willow," "The Princess Bride" and "The Never-Ending Story." While these are very enjoyable films, they are more adventure-like fantasy than they are epic dramas. And others (such as "Labyrinth" or "Legend")-although still enjoyable-made the genre even less respectable by using silly costuming and childish humor. Category 2-Flat out stupid:
Three words: "Dungeons & Dragons" The Fellowship of the Ring is a fantasy movie done the way fantasy movies were supposed to be. Gone is the notion that the fantasy genre is for kids, or that comic relief and cheesy characters are needed to make the movie bearable. The Fellowship of the Ring is an epic drama. It has the majesty and dramatic tone of "Braveheart" or "Gladiator," only set in the context of Tolkein's masterful tale of Middle Earth. Let us hope that Hollywood studios and film execs have learned their lesson-you CAN make a big-budget, high-quality, dramatic fantasy film and still make a lot of money. Let us give credit to New Line Cinema for going out on a limb to make this (and the other two) LOTR movies. And let us all hail Peter Jackson, cast, and crew for pulling off the film accomplishment of a lifetime. I only hope that future fantasy films can at least try to come close to the extravagant perfection of The Fellowship of the Ring. Having said all this, the Extended Version is EVEN BETTER! Usually when watching the "deleted scenes" on various DVDs I say to myself, "well I can see why they deleted that scene." Scenes are usually deleted for a good reason-either they cause the movie to drag on, or do nothing to develop the plot. This is not the case with the new scenes on the extended version of the LOTR. These scenes not only help add more clarity to the plot, but they go a long way in further developing the characters-the lack of which was a common criticism of the theatrical release of the LOTR. The only character that does not receive anymore character development is Legolas. Add to this how well done these extra and lengthened scenes have been done. Each scene has been edited smoothly into the movie for a seamless experience. Sounds, special effects, and even additional scoring have been added to ensure the same quality throughout. These extra scenes are not essential, but surely add quite a bit to the film, enough so that on future viewings of the LOTR, I will always watch the extended version. The packaging is very well done and with two discs of bonus material, you definitely get your dollar's worth. If you don't own either version on DVD, just buy the extended version and I promise that after seeing it you'll realize that you don't need (or even want) the theatrical version.
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