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Summary: Would make a good book...
Review: If Alan Dean Foster were to take the movie and make a book from it, it would be pretty good. Tolkien would protest the plagiarism (from beyond the Sundering Seas), recognizing many of the major scenes and transitions, but might give up the challenge when he realized the many elisions: no songs, no Bombadil (and where will a knife from Angmar be found that will be so critical later?), no lightness and joie de vivre blended with the danger and giving it balance. In addition, the screen writer seemed to think Arwen Evenstar should be a fighting elf, but Tolkien didn't. And Pippin drops a stone in Moria, not a whole suit of armor with chains attached.Some positive notes: Gandalf was very Gandalfish, and the scene of the goblin's fight in the upper chamber in Moria was wonderful. Boromir was well done - and true to Tolkien, he dies. Alas, sic transit gloria Boromir. I was reminded of Batman with Michael Keaton - dark, ominous, always threatening - and that's not The Lord of the Rings as Tolkien told it. Not, of course, until Frodo and Sam enter Mordor. That was truly dark in every sense, and one wonders how much latitude the screenwriter and director have left to show the difference. So it's a good movie to watch, but it's in too much of a hurry, seems guided by the genre of "action adventure", and ends up a work more aptly described as "adapted" from Tolkien.
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Summary: Movie lives up to book 100%
Review: Most of the time, movies are spawned from great books and novels. Many a time though, the movies don't live up to the book. Sure, some of them turn out to be great movie despite the fact that it doesn't live up to the book. Then, there are those that not only not live up to the book, but just down right bombs. (The Shining with Jack Nicholsan for example.) However, with Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship, the movie lives up to the book. Even though it excluded some of the off side adventures of the story in the book, the movie remains loyal to the book's main story line. (It can't be expected that the movie could include everything, it already is three hours long, I'm sure if they had the money they would.) For all those who haven't seen the movie in fear that it will not be loyal and true to the book, rest assured. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship is a wonderful movie and can't be any truer to the book.
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Summary: An Epic Begins
Review: This movie is beyond words! The acting is great, the locales are beautiful, and the story is epic! This is part one of three movies which make up one grand story about a small creature who rises above corruption to help destroy an artifact that will give its user absolute power... or so they think. The One Ring of Power gives power to its wearer, but... This was a great movie, and its only flaw, if it has one, is that it's very long. Oh well, with a movie as good as this, it doesn't seem that bad.
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Summary: Magnificent!
Review: The Lord of the Rings is the BEST movie of all time. Peter Jackson has donne a great job. Cast,crew,locations,special and visual efects are amazing. This movie get under your skin when you watch it. It's greater than Star Wars. It suprises how J.R.R. Tolkien could have such fantasy as he described all he's ideas in the book. I say, only great mind can do it. And J.R.R. Tolkien was a great man and he,and he's Middle Earth, still lives in OUR imagination. In The Lord of the Rings you can see what is real frendship and it can make you cry. It made me cry, and I'm proud to say it 'cause you don't see movies, or read books, such as The Lord of the Rings. All I can say now is:" Can't wait for Two towers!"
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Summary: The Best Film Of 2001, And Maybe, Ever!
Review: This is a spectacular film! I saw this back in December by accident actually. I was planning on seeing the just released 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and had disregarded this as a slow, boring film for fans of the books of which I had never bothered to read.
I couldn't have been more wrong! I went up to the ticket booth only to find that the movie I was going to see was sold out.
I surveyed the other options eliminating them one by one, until I came to The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. I had seen almost all the other films and finally decided to see Lord Of The Rings. I figured if nothing else I could see what all the hype was about so I paid my [money] (Ouch!) and headed into the theater. Well, I thought to myself as I watched the new Star Wars
trailer, it would appear that the next Star Wars movie is going to be all love story, I was wrong again, as I found out later.
Lord Of The Rings started playing and from scene one, (Galadriel telling the story of the ring thus far, if you remember) I was hooked! The fascinating storytelling kept me engulfed inside another world, Middle-Earth, in fact. The magnificent cinematography and terrific art direction had my eyes riveted to the screen for every single second of film. The spellbinding score was perfect for each and every scene, not one note was wrong or misplaced. The direction was fantastic and the acting, which has received some grief somehow or another, was perfect. Every line was said with perfection, nothing wooden in any of the actors performances. The movie ran for around three hours, which was amazing to me because when I walked out it had felt like two hours at best. I would have sat there and watched the entire trilogy with only a small bathroom break in between if I could have.
After seeing the movie I rushed here, to my computer and got online to Amazon.com and bought the entire Lord Of The Rings set and The Hobbit and have thus far read, The Hobbit, The Fellowship Of The Ring, and am currently reading The Two Towers which I plan on finishing before the first DVD release of LOTR next month.
I went out and saw The Fellowship Of The Ring when The Two Towers trailer was packaged with it and loved the movie just as much as I
had when I first saw it if not more so. Now there has been some
controversy over leaving out and changing some of the original story in the book for the movie. I can tell you now that this move
without a doubt, kept the film going and never slowed to the pace that it would have slowed to had Tom Bombadil been included.
I thought the parts with Tom Bombadil were the slowest in the book and I, for one am glad that they were excluded. The other scenes, such as the deeply moving gift giving scene, I have heard will be included in the November Special Extended Edition DVD release with new music scored by new Academy Award Winner Howard Shore and will be contained on two discs, with two more discs for over 6 hours of special features. I am planning on getting the Collector's Edition
of that DVD that also includes a National Geographic Beyond The Movie DVD and several other Lord Of The Rings items.
But until then I am awaiting The Two Towers, due out December 18th. I also can tell you that the very overrated 'A Beautiful Mind' should have lost Best Picture in favor of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. I just realized that it's Tuesday, which means that this DVD comes out Two Weeks from today!
Yipee! Yahoo! Horray! Yes! Terrific! Spectacular! Magnificent!
My Precious will soon be mine!
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Summary: Awesome movie
Review: I have read the great books that this movie was based on and I think that Peter Jackson did an awesome job making this movie. He followed the plot amazingly well, (except he should have kept in the scene that showed the fellowship getting gifts from Galadriel.) This movie was the film of 2001. It should have recieved the Best Picture award instead of A Beautiful Mind. It is one of the best movies I have seen, and it even got better the second time I saw it. I highly recommend this movie.
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Summary: Left Me Unsatisfied
Review: Yes, the producers of this should be commended for the extras. However, the movie relied too much on CGI. In the end, I yearned for no tech movies that rely on acting and more human scale drama.
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Summary: Jackson Wins Battle for Middle-Earth
Review: Having read both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, I couldn't wait to see the big screen adaptation of the extraordinary world of J.R.R. Tolkien, but was a little worried that Peter Jackson would in some small way be unfaithful to the text and ruin it for me. Not at all! This is the first film I've ever fallen in love with AFTER I've already read the book--it was as if the pages jumped up into the screen themselves. Very true to the book, and true to my interpretations of the story as well. The scenery is breathtaking, the cast is perfect for their respective parts, the action and special effects are unmatched, and the production is flawless. This film is one of the most brilliant science fiction/fantasy films ever made, though the special effects and fantastic details don't cloud the story or emotion of the film itself. Brilliant, will be a classic forevermore.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: As I sat down to see Lord of the Rings, I was skeptical, not being a wizard and warlock kind of guy, but as the story began, and the plot unraveled I became overcome with the sense I was in the movie. The world created by Peter Jackson is so realistic I was expecting the Black Riders to come for me. Jackson created a world that I believe would make Tolkien proud, and I can say that Lord of the Rings is the perfect blend of action, drama, special effects, and just plain creepiness.
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Summary: New Experience
Review: I thought it's about time Hollywood made a movie with some moral law in it. Check the background, Tolkien was a very biblical man, does that say anything?
Anyway, I thought the filming was exceptional! It was pretty close to the actual book which impressed me and the things they added to it that were not part of the book were well worth it and made even more sense to the outcome of the story. The violence destorying the orcs (old english word for "demon" by the way) was a little crude, but that would be my only complaint. The actors were well chosen and really resembled their characters as if they stepped out of the book! It was all in all a great movie!
I believe I will always appreciate a classic such as this being brought to film!!! Interest: Finding God in Lord of the Rings by Kurt Bruner & Jim Ware
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