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Summary: The long awaited
Review: The lord of the rings movie was annoused in um 1999 I think and boy I was exited. Peter Jackson has done a great job of transforming the book into a movie. They have taken out Tom Bombadil but who cares he wasn't that intresting anyway. The special effects were cool to. I don't remember the book saying that Aragorn has a beard. Many people were upset at the end. Everyone wanted more of the action. 10/10
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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: Lord of the Rings-WONDERFUL!!!
Review: The Lord of the Rings movie was WONDERFUL!!It made me laugh and cry. It was VERY exciting and scary, too.I don't know why it was rated PG-13.I think ALL ages would enjoy The Lord of the Rings!The scene with Arwen galloping away from the Ringwraiths with Frodo was amazing!!The scene with Pippin in Moria made me smile. When Gandalf and Boromir died, I cried. I cried until everyone was gone(out of the theater).My Mum finally made me get up.I've seen the LOTR 2 times so far-I hope to see it again and again!The acters were wonderful, too!E.wood did a wonderful Frodo.Gandalf was cool. Saruman was spooky(I hope Gandalf kills him-I haven't read all the books yet!).Pippin,Merry,and Sam were great!Any LOTR fans who haven't seen the movie HAVE to see it!:)
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Summary: The film of the year
Review: The Lord of the Rings saga is well-known and popular for the wrong reasons. It is critically acclaimed for it's amazing special-effects and set-pieces (with, I don't deny, are incredible), and kids like it for it's great "action" (kids today are idiots), but people miss the great elements of Peter Jackson's movies.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first chapter of an emotional story of a little person who finds strength in himself to do what he, and many others thought impossible. The person is a hobbit, and his name is Frodo Baggins. With the thought of rescuing his homeland from a growing evil as his motivation, Frodo volunteers to embark on and lead the quest to destroy the One Ring, the source of the dark lord Sauron's power. Should they succeed in destroying the Ring by dropping it in the volcano called Mount Doom (Orodruin), they will have destroyed Sauron's life-force and he will be vanquished. Should they fail and Sauron regain the Ring, the land of Middle-earth will fall to Sauron's evil.
Frodo is accompanied by a company of 8 others, and the one who sticks by him more than the rest is Sam Gamgee, another hobbit from his homeland who vows to stick by Frodo not mater what. At first the vow is inspired by the fear that the noble wizard Gandalf will punish Sam if he doesn't stick by Frodo. But over time a bond develops between the two, and Sam becomes ready to die for his friend Mr. Frodo.
The movie ends with a rousing battle at a riverside hill called Amon Hen. There a party of evil Uruk-hai kill a member of the Fellowhsip, capture 2 of the 4 hobbits, and leave everyone else scattered. In the midst of all this Frodo abandons his Fellowship, realizing that the trip to Sauron's black land is too dangerous for him to drag the others into. But, when he is on the verge of getting away, he is discovered by Sam, who isnsists to go with him. It ends with them walking down into the Emyn Muil canyon, where the two will continue their journey in the next film. As for the others, after the death of Boromir, the two-faced man from Gondor who over the course of the film had a strong desire to take the ring from Frodo, Aragorn, the other man, honors him and gives him as proper a funearal as possible in the situation. Then he, Legolas the elf, and Gimli the dwarf venture on to rescue Pippin and Merry, the 2 hobbits captured by the Uruk-hai, and that is how the movie ands for them.
The film has plenty of psychological properties to it. There is Boromir, who under pressure to serve his failing nation of Gondor, feels a terrific desire to take the Ring from Frodo and attempt to use it for the good f his country. There is the realtionship between Frodo and Sam, who learn that they need each other to fulfill the daunting task of destroying the Ring, and there is Aragorn, an old Ranger worn out by life, who realizes that it is he who must claim the throne of the falling nation of Gondor, but sees the country's shamefulness and greed and doesn't want to rule that land. It is a moving book by J.R.R. Tolkien turned into what I believe is a more moving movie.
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Summary: an odessey for our generation
Review: the lord of the rings transcends film making as a mere commodity and restores or better yet advances film to the artform it should be and in the process has left us with a vision as palpable and moving as a rodin sculpture a mozart opera or a norse saga.
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Summary: IT WAS THE BEST!
Review: The Lord of the Rings was absolutely the best movie I have ever seen. The cinematography was excellent, the acting was superb, especially for Ian McKellen. buy it!
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Summary: Entertainment and satisfying transfer to the screen
Review: The Lord of the Rings was one of my first books in the genre of fantasy. I started with David Eddings and Jack Vance, but J. R. R. Tolkien, even though being a hurdle for a young reader of fantasy novels, was finally really thrilling due to its complexity and also to its richness in detail and also due to its very easily understandable main motives (George R. R. Martin, Tad Williams, Robert Jordan and some others are writers that followed the traition of high and complex fantasy are also adorable). In this novel, heros are truly heros, sword fighters are true artists, bad is truly black and the good is usually white and shining (I do not not necessarily agree with this philosophy). About twelve years after I read the books, I still was captured by the imaginative pictures presented by the film, but some of the fine details may have been lost (like details were lost in Dune or in Blade Runner). Seeing the film was meeting again the world of Tolkien. The film is not free of criticism (additional scenes - like the ones includig Arwen -, the ending taken over from the second book etc.) but I very much enjoyed the film anyhow. And what else do you should do when watching a movie? I watched his film a second time, and this happended only with Episode II and with Episode VI some nineteen years ago. It is, as far as to my feeling, not a film to be watched by kids younger than 16teen, but it is entertaining and it resembles very much the feeling I had while reading the book (I heard Simply Red songs while reading the books, but the todays music score is nevertheless fascinating, like the Episode II score).
I do recommend the film to every true fan of fantasy and to every fan of a somewhat different movie of a not to complicated content. It is mainstream somehow, but it is made whith a very sensitive feeling for the genre. To boldly go... may the power be with you... one ring to bind them!
I love them all. You can criticise them, but you have to do it better to overcome the critics. I request critics to be free of emotion (as long as not otherwise indicated) and to try to be objective. "De gustibus non est disputandum" I (personally) adore this film and I do anticipate its two successors with insatiable hunger.
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Summary: What an Experience!
Review: The Lord of the Rings was the very first Fantasy series I read as a kid, and I always wished someone would make it into a movie. This was well worth the wait! I don't think they could have chosen a better group of actors to portray these characters if they tried! I saw the movie 11 times, and would have gone more if it hadn't been removed from the theatres. Until it came out, Star Wars (the original) had been my all-time favorite. Well, guess what? It's been replaced. To anyone who has not seen it, please do! I don't think you'll be disappointed. I took a friend who had no clue about Tolkien, or fantasy, and she came out of the theatre practically panting for the next one! This is a movie not to be missed.
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Summary: Epic story of fantasy and adventure!
Review: The Lord Of The Rings will truly be a goood movie. I saw the original trailer during the WB season premiere show of "Angel". Seriously, how could you find this movie to be bad? It has everything we movie goers love about the movies: Magic, enchantement, fantasy, adventure, action, drama, and even the very talented, cute young actor, Elijah Wood! (he, he, he!) I'm sure it'll follow the plot of the book trilogy as best as possible. We already know the story of The Lord Of The Rings and that it has a great story to it and plot. The Lord Of The Rings took three whole years to complete in New Zeland. I'm sure the special effects and the scenerary will be absolutely stunning. Even the costumes look spectacular! It is definitely original and I just can't wait to see the film. I also can't wait to see films like Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones, Harry Potter, Gangs Of New York, and Men In Black 2. Go see The Lord Of The Rings if you love the books!
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Summary: A Fantasy World Gone Bad
Review: The Lord of the Rings, to begin,disapointed me very much. Now this could be because i saw it on video and not in theaters, because the theater makes it more enjoyable. For some reason, you cannot get into the action of the movie. It moves WAY to slowly and just dragssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss on & on & on................. You know what I mean (It gets old)
The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because of the bonus disc. That is probably better than the movie itself. Without the bonus disc (on VHS), this movie would get 1/8 th of a star from me. The Two Towers looks much more active and just downright "cool", but I thought the same thing before I saw the first. The only reason I would recommend seing this is to compare it to the book. Its interesting to see what was left out and what changed and so on and so forth. But besides that, spend half the money and get the book. I will continue to to see the next 2 movies, hoping each one will get better.
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