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Summary: The best film ever!!!!!
Review: I would just like to point out that this has to be the most well structured and the best scripted film i have ever seen!! I cant wait untill it comes out on video. It has the best cast line up ever!(ESPECIALLY ELIJAH WOOD!) Its just great that the stuck so close to the books, and now everybody is very impatiant to see the others!!
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Summary: The book is just too good.
Review: The Lord of the Rings movie was faced with an incredible challenge from the very start: Tolkien's book is just so good, how can the movie ever be its equal? In the end, this challenge was just too great, and fans of the book will find that the movie could never quite meet their expectations. A three hour movie can never match the grandeur and epic scale of a 500+ page book. But having said that, as far as efforts go to reproduce Tolkien's world and plot in a movie, it's hard to conceive of an attempt being much more successful than this one.To be honest, I went to see the movie with meagre expectations. I feared that gore would triumph over glory in typical Hollywood style, but was pleasantly surprised. One of the highlights is the world which the movie re-creates. The New Zealand location is wonderfully convincing, and many viewers will discover that it matches their mental picture of Middle Earth. The scenery is breath-taking. The characters - particularly the actors of Gandolf, Bilbo, Frodo, and Aragorn are memorable and just as I imagined them from the book. And the film-makers have gone to great lengths to reproduce the small details that make Tolkien's Lord of the Rings so beloved: the pipeweed smoke-rings and Gollum's lamp-like eyes are a few of such details that come to mind. Many times I found myself thinking delightedly: this is exactly the way Tolkien describes it! Attention to such details shows that the movie is in many respects faithful to the book. At the same time, it is impossible for even a three hour movie to capture all the intricacies of plot and character that the 500 page book has. Consequently, the movie is forced to make short cuts and even minor alterations to the plot to accommodate this. It would hardly be fair to criticize the movie for this - one can hardly expect to have a 24 hour "full version" of The Fellowship of the Ring. The elimination of Tom Bombadil, and the introduction of Merry and Pippin in a manner different from the original is somewhat frustrating, but hardly avoidable. An important question: should you read the book before or after the movie? If you read the book just before seeing the movie, you will find yourself becoming unnecessarily frustrated by the minor alterations that the movie-makers were forced to make, rather than enjoying the grandeur of the movie's achievement. To appreciate both the books and the movie the most, I would suggest reading "The Hobbit" before the movie, and then reading "The Fellowship of the Ring" just before seeing the second movie in the series. People entirely unfamiliar with Tolkien's books will likely have a difficult time understanding the intricate plot, let alone appreciating the lengths that the movie-makers have gone to reproduce Tolkien's middle earth. Admittedly, the recounting of the history of the ring at the beginning of the movie is an ingenius device that may help those unfamiliar with the background of the story and characters. But ultimately, this movie will be best enjoyed by lovers of Tolkien. It won't diminish their claim that nothing can beat the book, but you can be sure that the Tolkien faithful will be among the first in line when the next movie in the series is released.
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Summary: Extremely Powerful Movie!
Review: I never read Tolkien's LOTR books but did see a TV show which explained the religious aspects of the characters/story. The show helped me understand the LOTR movie. I walked away with a spiritual renewal. The movie is rich, deep, and emotional. I truly felt like I was reading the book and living the adventure with Frodo and the gang. The bad characters were powerful in getting across the evil they possess. Elijah Wood was a perfect Frodo. He acted in a way that made me feel the intense emotional drain his character, Frodo, endured as he carried the ring. I've never seen a modern film that possessed so much purpose and reflection on man and society. Truly LOTR was released at the perfect time in which man is questioning himself with God and his fellow man. Since Sept. 11 I see a spiritual renewal in people. LOTR reflects an inner look at ourselves through characters that truly reflect man's conflicts with power, greed, etc. I saw myself in a few of the LOTR fellowship characters--their reactions, behavior, etc. If one looks within him/herself he/she would see a little of Frodo, Bilbo, Samwise, Gandolf, perhaps even Gollum? Each LOTR character reacts to the power of the ring differently, just like each person reacts to temptations: power, greed, etc differently. I can't say enough of this awesome movie. I can't wait for it to come out on video and see the last 2 installments in the next 2 years. Watch this movie...and you will walk away with some inner reflection.
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Summary: Lord of What???????The Movies??????
Review: Okay,Lord of the Rings was mediocre,It wasn't SO bad that I would walk out,but it wasn't THAT great!Okay,the movie had great special effects,obviosly it had a great story,but it was still Terrible...well,maybe I'm Being to harsh,just I personally didn't like some parts of it....So I'll mark the good and the Bad of it....
GOOD THINGS:
1.Great scenery...
2.Speicial Effects....
3.The Make-up,it was Really realistic........
4.Actors,Most were awesome......
5.Story......
BAD THINGS:
1.The monsters,I'm 12 and it still freaked me out!
2.The Battles,why does everything have to be so gruesome?????
3.Did I metion the Monsters,demons,devillike things,goblins,and everything else???? Another thing I did not like was the fact that they portrayed this film as a family film,it should definetly be PG-13,But I would've waited 'till I was about 20 to watch this if I knew what really went on in it!
Hope this review was helpful to You....
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Summary: ONE RING TO FIND THEM ALL- ONE RING TO FIND THEM
Review: When I first walked into the theatre I didn't feel like watching
a three-hour movie about a ring! But after the film started-I was wrong! The lord of the rings is about a powerful ring that was created
by an evil ringwraith and now it must be destroyed or the ring
wraiths will enslave and darken middle earth forever! There were alot of monsters and fight scenes which were the best.
And of course there were also some comedy scenes like in the battle scenes. My favorite part was when Arwen made the horses out of water to
stop the ringwraiths from capturing Frodo and getting the ring! I liked all the characters-but my favorite were the ringwraiths
of course. IF YOU WANT HIM-COME AND CLAIM HIM!
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Summary: One Bad Movie
Review: The first half of this movie is very good. I love to listen to story and there are people telling the story... physically... in the first half of the movie. It really draws me into the plot. However, story telling disappears very quickly in the second half of the movie. The second half of the movie is filled with cheap special effects that don't do anything to the movie in my opinion. You see people running around smashing this and that mindlessly. There is virtually no dialog... no story telling... The second half is so bad that I actually want to leave the movie theater. If I have to compare this movie with another movie, I will say that the movie Princess Bride is a much better 5-star original. I have never read Lord of the Rings. So, I will go see the rest of the movie when it comes out just to see how it ends. If the second movie is bad again, I will skip the third and go buy the book and read it instead.
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Summary: Awesom! I'm waiting 4 DVD
Review: Exelcent!! I can say nothing about it. How did Peter Jackson do this, is he human or Habbits? ^_^ I think FOTR is a PERFECT works£¬and it is the one of the best movies i'v ever seen!
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Summary: LOTR Film
Review: This is the finest movie I have seen in a very long time. LOTR has the distinction of being my alltime favorite movie. It has far surpassed every other favorite in my life, including The Wizard of Oz. I had never read the books, but after seeing the movie and being one hundred percent blown away, I immediately bought The Hobbit and Fellowship. After reading Fellowship, I must say that I became even more delighted with the movie. A fabulous job was done adapting the book to a screenplay. Everything was amazingly done. Gandalf is so powerful and impressive. The scene with him on the bridge of Khazadum is still my favorite. The cinematography was stunning, the acting supberb. I would gladly have sat down for the other two movies right then and there. If you are a long time fan of LOTR, go see this movie. If you have never read them, do so and see the movie, in either order. It's a must see and a must own when it is finally released on DVD. I cannot wait for the other two.
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Summary: Have you ever been astonished for three hours?
Review: This film is literally so great that absolutely no film in its fantasy genre deserves to stand up for comparison. George Lucas might as well retire right now -- his Star Wars work (as good as it sometimes has been) would not be qualified to stand as a footnote to this staggering production! The depiction of Middle Earth is so convincing that we feel completely immersed in the illusion. The effects are so consistently seamless that I usually had no idea where the digitalization began and ended! And the details of the various depictions draw the viewer inexorably into the scenes. The screenwriting is so finely tuned that we quickly find ourselves caring simultaneously about a great number of characters. Ian McKellan, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchette, and various others are magnificent. This is the most creative production I have ever seen! Little wonder it has so far been the big winner of 2001 -- it is clearly Best Picture.
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Summary: Lord of the Rings is a great movie!
Review: Lord of the Rings is a good movie because of good acting and special effects. The fireworks are so cool and I like how it kept you on the edge of your seat. I've seen it twice and would see it a lot more if I could. It's kind of battly but not bloody. It's great!!
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