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Summary: Fantastic Epic
Review: Most people hate reading books in school. I am one of those people. In the eighth grade, we were forced to read 'The Hobbit'. I hated it, but I managed to retain some of the names, places, and events of the book. Then, before seeing Rush Hour 2, I saw a preview for a movie called 'Lord of the Rings'. One of the names mentioned was 'Bilbo Baggins'. That name, not being one you hear every day, turned on a lightbulb in my head. I kept watching the preview, and I discovered how wonderful these books really are, just through the trailer. I saw the movie a couple days after it came out, and fell in love with it. I ended up seeing it 12 times in the theater, seeing something new every time. The day it came available for pre-order, I ordered mine, counting down the days. As you can see, this movie can captivate even the most indifferent person. I fell in love with the beautiful Rivendell, the elf city, and the Shire. I was captivated by the realness of Frodo. Gandalf. Legolas. Aragorn. Arwen. Gimli. Boromir. Elrond. Saruman. Everybody just seemed to be so real! Peter Jackson does a phenomenal job putting these books to life. You may be wondering how I know, because I only read the Hobbit. After seeing this movie, I felt the need to read all the books - and I did. They are just as good as the movies - which shows how parallel the movies are with the books. My advice to you is - buy this movie, watch it many times. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Five-star entertainment!!!
Review: Fellowship of the Ring is a wonderful movie, filled with moving and desperate moments where the characters we have read about come to life on the screen. This was the best film adaptation that could be made. The Lord Of The Rings is so real looking that it gave me shivers down my spine the first time I watched it. It is well worth the money to buy it. I can not wait for The Two Towers, and The Return Of The King to come out so I can buy them. I Highly recommend this movie to anyone, whether you love stories of action/adventure or whatever. I bought this DVD the day it came out and I LOVE it so much! There are TONS of special features! Buy it to watch them! See this amazing movie at least once!
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Summary: And the award for Hype Over Substance goes to. . .
Review: I'm not sure what the actual running time of the extended edition is. It felt like about eight hours, and it took a conscious effort of will to sit through it for the duration. I never saw the theatrical release, but it couldn't have been much better, even if it were shortened by an hour or more: this is a very ponderous, overblown, over-hyped movie, full of gimmick but bereft of substance.If there were an Academy Award for Most Ham-Handed, Self-Important Direction, Peter Jackson would have won, ham-hands down. Jackson's direction has all the subtle nuance of a jackboot to the groin; in every scene we sense him just off camera shouting "Look at me! I'm directing a REALLY IMPORTANT EPIC MOVIE!" But the final effect of his over-strained, over-reaching effort to make everything extra-big, extra-important and extra-colossal is merely to make a potentially good movie into a dead weight, lacking any importance or even anything of interest. The script is sketchy at best, devoid of anything resembling character development or cohesiveness, and providing none of the depth of the original Tolkein books. The actors stumble through each scene as if walking to death row, delivering somnolent, wooden performances, and looking as if they'd rather be somewhere else. Not one character comes through as likable, or interesting, or even vaguely worth caring about. Two hours into this "epic" I started wishing they'd just give the ring back to Gollum and all go home, so I could move on to something interesting. The background score, courtesy of Howard Shore, is as self-important and heavy-handed and tedious as the direction, and at times it puffs up and swells to the point of treading on the lines being spoken. (Fortunately, this doesn't make much difference insofar as exposition, and it won't affect your ability to follow the story; just go with the flow into the Next Big Scene with the assurance that you haven't missed anything important.) What this movie does have plenty of is Special Effects, and that seems to be what audiences want these days. It's a sad fact of modern day movie-making, but it had to happen someday: the computer is more important here than the script, the actors, the story, or the director. It's made very clear throughout, in every scene, in every frame, that whiz-bang super-duper eye-popping effects were on everybody's mind, and no doubt lots of geek hours and tons of techno bucks went into the production to make it all look just so. The only problem is, it ends up looking just so-so: the effects and the swooping camera shots are used, overused and abused so much that there's really nothing all that impressive about it; there was nothing in this movie that wasn't done better fifteen years ago in Willow, where the effects were perhaps less sophisticated, but were more judiciously applied and better integrated into a much better movie. In fact, if you're looking for a good fantasy adventure to add to your collection, just pick up a copy of Willow. The Fellowship Of The Ring may be almost obligatory to watch once, given all its hype and the marketing mega-blitz that accompanied it, but it isn't a movie to watch again and again, so save some money by just renting it. With the money you save, you can buy Willow and get excellent performances, deft direction, a good score, and plenty of passion, humor, and excitement. And it even has a village full of little people, lots of sorcery and magic, and a terrific battle between good and evil, all in a movie that's worth watching more than once. Oh, and as for the dozen (or forty, or whatever it is) hours of "extras" and "special features" that accompany the movie: I didn't watch them. I'll concede that it's possible that many hours of self-congratulatory documentary about "How We Made This Movie & Ain't It Impressive" could, maybe, perhaps, be more interesting than the movie itself. But I'm not willing to invest the time to find out. All that extra stuff just looks like a self-conscious effort by New Line Cinema to cover up for the feature's lack of substance. Maybe if they'd put all that time and money and effort into the feature film, instead of the "Look What We Did!" extras, they'd have made a good movie. Maybe.
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Summary: The Most Amazing DVD ever
Review: The movie itself is absoloutely amazing! Now, with extra scenes that Peter Jackson has added, polished and scored it is way better than the original movie. With the extra DVD's you can watch and learn how hobbits are made small, what big-atures are and tons of extra information that is essential for all LOTR fans. Of course it also has the most gorgeous guy in the world in it. Who is, no surprise, Orlando Bloom!!!!
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Summary: Brilliant film -- best DVD ever!
Review: I've reviewed the film elsewhere. Let me just say that the extended edition is far superior to the outstanding theatrical release. Don't dare judge this film or filmmaker until you've seen this cut. Much more character development and extra story elements that give the film depth and extra resonance. The extras on this DVD are well worth the purchase. Commentaries, story boards, behind the scenes looks, and other features make this a wonderful addition to any Tolkien fan's library. You learn first-hand how much attention the writers did pay to the original. No one can fully appreciate or understand this film series without fully digesting this spectacular DVD set.
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Summary: SWEET!
Review: Awesome movie! Peter Jackson really captured the book and put it on film. He changed some parts, like when Arwen rides away from the Nazgul, when in the book Frodo actually rides. I guess he was trying to show how sick Frodo was. Overall, Tolkien masterpiece becomes one of the best movies of all times.
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Summary: Wow! Loved this set. My favorite Christmas Present 2002!
Review: If you are a Lord of the Rings fan this set is a MUST HAVE! The extended and added scenes blend into the theatrical cut so well. The commentaries are so cool and the added appendixes will have you watching for hours. Great stuff and great inside views of the making of the movie. I have been hooked on this set for days. I hope they do a similar set for all three releases. You just must get this set!
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: I am glad I waited for this release I found it to be even better with all the deleted stuff added back in. I also enjoyed getting a free movie ticket to the Twin Towers which by the way is better than the first...Yeah I know how is that possible.
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Summary: terrific
Review: what a great movie, I loved the new scenes tho wish I had known about it before I got the theatrical version.
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Summary: Why Amazon should offer 6 stars..
Review: This movie deserves more then 5 stars. ACTION and SUSPENSE
Tons, from the battle at the beginning to the Ringwraiths, to the mines of Moria and Khazad-dum to a fantastic ending at Amon Hen. You'll love the cliffhanger. CHARACTERS
The movie explores characters emotions, dreams and weaknesses, like Aragorn's lineage, Gimli and the fate of his dwarf relatives, Boromir and the powers of the Ring, and ofcourse the power of friendship, seen especially with Frodo and Sam. LENGTH
It's 3 hrs long but doesn't feel it. This movie keeps your interests until the very last second, and when it ends you'll be begging for more. VIOLENCE
The movie has some action packed scenes that contain swordfights against scary looking monsters as if they were from nightmares. The orcs and the Ringwraiths may be scary for younger viewers. OVERALL
This is a great film, and the future movies will be even better. A treate for Tolkien fans like me, and even non-readers will find themselves transported to Middle Earth for Frodo's adventures.
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