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Summary: Great Epic
Review: I am always a sucker for an epic film and this does not disappoint. And just think there are two more after this one. The changes made in the movie from the books do not disrupt the themes and characters that make the books so beloved. Visually a great film, that makes you want to run and get plane tickets to New Zealand.
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Summary: Makes movies fun again!!!
Review: I get enough reality in my everyday life- who needs it at the movies??? The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, was the most entertaining movie that I can remember seeing in years! The cast was perfect. I felt like I was in middle Earth. The battle scenes were incredible and the bad guys were viciously believable! The action is intense and the story is thrilling. My whole family went together and while some scenes were scary for my six-year old, she couldn't take her eyes off of it. She loved the movie, too. It captivates your imagination from the very beginning and doesn't let go. When the end of the movie came we were wishing it was twice as long! We can't wait for The Two Towers to come out. We'll be the first in line! To everyone involved in the making of this movie- BRAVO!!!
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Summary: Peter Jackson, have did you do that???
Review: When the Lord of the rings came out for over 50 years ago the bokk became a huges success all over the world, but the movie that came out in Decemer 2001 was an ever bigger succes. The movie is fantastic. I have readen the book and I didnt belive that the movie could stand up to the book that well but it did because of all the effects and all the great actors. Still, the director has not used to much effects and that makes the movie even better. As everybody knows the movie is about a litle hobbit named Frodo and he starts a fantastic jurny to the evil land called mordor. On his jurny he has 1 dworf, one alv, 3 other hobbits and two humans. I must say that Viggo Mortensen was outstanding when he played Araghorn. This fantastic story based on a book by R.J.Tolkien and extremely good performances by very good actors and a fantastic 3 hours movie that you think lasts for one hour makes this film the best film of the year!!! ...
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Summary: Well done!
Review: Being older than dirt I've read and reread the trilogy many times since the 60's. I reread it again just before the movie release. I went to the movie with zero expectations so as not to be disappointed. I came away one *happy* camper. The direction, costuming, casting, and makeup alone was worth ten times the ticket price. I went to see it a total of 3 times, and I wish I could see it again. I wait with great anticipation for the video release. Oh dear, I all but drooled on myself here...what would Galadriel think? ;o)
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Summary: But Where's Tom Bombadil?
Review: Quite frankly, one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, and possibly the only movie I've gone to see 6 times in the theaters (especially to see the new Two Towers trailer...'drool'...). It thoroughly enchants. Can't wait for the Ultimate Edition DVD later this year with the extra scenes betwixt Galadriel and the fellowship...but alas, 'sob', still no Tom Bombadil to be found anywhere. A horrible tragedy, cutting out one of the most intriguing and enigmatic characters of the story...oh, well...
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Summary: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Review: At last a film worthy of Tolkiens trilogy! Ian McKellen's Gandalf is every bit the wizard I pictured 30 years ago, when I first read the book. Tolkien's dialogue is treated as respectfully as Shakespear's. You'll recognize many passages directly from the book. The New Zealand locations are spectacular, and the trek through the Mines of Moria is as memorable, as any sequence I have ever watched. John Rhys-Davis plays the perfect Gimli. My only regrets are that Saruman's character is revealed too soon; the hostility between elves and dwarves is glossed over, so the bond between Gimli and Legolas seems a bit too ordinary. And most surprising of all, much of what Galadriel says to Frodo at the Mirror, one of the most memorable speaches of all time, is distorted to provide a "special effect", that would be better served by the soft clarity of Galadriel's voice. Nevertheless this "Lord of the Rings" is the best film version we are likely to see in this age of the world.
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Summary: Was it the best it could have been?
Review: ...To be truly honest I wasn't specting that the special effects would be so good for what I had seen in the trailers, but I was pretty certain that the story would remain almost untouched, cut, yes, but not with reinvented parts, or at least "so bad" reinvented. And actually the plot wasn't heavily changed, but I was brokenhearted when I saw that many beautiful details were lost, and replaced with invented scenes. I was marveled about the beautiful artwork and screenplay, I never thought It could equal my imagination, but it was without a flaw, I must gladly admit it, amazing. But I won't forgive that they replaced the scene when Galadriel tells the dwarf's poem to show Gimli he is welcomed for her, after he had been humilliated for the elves, what makes him fall inlove with her, and ask her a single hair of her as a gift when they leave, instead of that they put a Gimli talking about her as a "witch of the forest". I think those little details are tender and gives you a view of the dignity and kindness of every race that appear in the story, and takes away the meaningful beauty that comes from the future friendship between Gimli and Legolas. After all, it is an epic story of "knights" (the good ones) fighting against the evil, even if they are dwarfs or hobbits, they are always gentlemen. Then they put that horrible scene of Galadriel beeing tempted by the ring, seeming a wild witch, which did not happen that way, and made her loose the perfection in wisdom and beauty she is. I have no complains about Gandalf (marvelous!), Bilbo, Frodo, Legolas (pretty nice too), Sam, Boromir and Gollum.
I liked very much they added the love story of Arwen and Aragorn, nice touch to put it insted of Tom Bomabadill's part, but I don't think Viggo Mortensen has enough personality to fulfill that role. I adore Kate Blanchet, I'm sorry the script twisted the image of Galadriel. Anyway, I put 3 points, because it caused me the same plasure and the same sorrow at the same time, I went to see it twice, I was dissapointed the first one, and I went againg hoping to change my mind, it didn't happen.
I spect the next movie with some fear, I like very much the characters from Rohan, specially King Theoden, who looks great in the picture, but i am afraid Eowyn doesn't look to be a hit, I hope to get a nice surprise, I really do.
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Summary: The return of the king of Fantasy:Tolkien's "Ring" rules!
Review: Watching Tolkien's Fellowship of the Rings come to life on the big screen last Christmas was simply a breathtaking experience. Of course the world of Tolkien had already come to life in my mind as a teenager but the magic slumbered until it was awakened by this movie. Delightful hobbits, crafty (albeit ornery at times) dwarves, skilled elves and malignanct goblins and orcs teem in this movie, while Gandalf's superior wizardry saves the day time and again. The movie remained faithful to the book and this is often a rarity. The script remains loyal to to character; the spectacle is truly marvelous to behold. Applause all around!!!
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Summary: THE LORD OF THE RING:THE FOLLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Review: Probably the most fantastic fantasy story ever written has been made into a film for the big screen and now it's being brought to us on video to enjoy in the home. This amazing film is the first in a triogly and was a box office smash.With beautiful scenary, wonderful props,magnifacent duels,horrific battles, heart warming friendships,tear jerking moments,laugh out loud funny and edge of your seat adventure it really is a film for everyone and is to be missed at your own peril.No other fantasy film has reached out to people and involved them in the story and draged them back to the cinama time and time again.
This really is the best film EVER MADE !...
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Summary: Lord of the Rings wonderful but long!
Review: I went to see this when it was at our Drive In in carlsbad, NM. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Really my only complaint about this movie is the fact that at the end the movie just like stops! And you want it to just continue finish the story. It really leaves you hanging. So after the movie I went home and turned to the last page of the book "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and it ended exactly the same way. I think that what they should have done was just release all three into one extremely long movie (i mean we're already sitting here so long just make it longer). ...
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