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Summary: Beautiful, Brilliant, but Empty
Review: If you attend a feast and find yourself at a table of wonderfully beautiful foods, heap your plate full, and eat the most savory delicious meal you've ever had in your life, amid all the sumptuous smells rising from that delectable table, but then find, after you've left the banquet, that for some inexplicable reason your stomach is growling with hunger, as if it were completely empty, then you'll understand the experience of seeing The Lord of The Rings.
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Summary: Very Good Moive!!
Review: I now own this movie on the Extended DVD version. I like Lord of The Rings movies. They follow the books by J. R. R. Tokien's! I recommend these DVD's.
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Summary: Kissin' cousins
Review: Did you know that Aragorn and Arwen are distant cousins or that Galadriel is Elrond's mother-in-law?
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Summary: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)
Review: I can't say enough great things about The Fellowship's Extended Edition DVD. Just when you thought the 1st chapter couldn't get any better, you thought wrong. With over 30 minutes of new and extended scenes, it makes for a more complete version of the film. You basically get more of everything. 3 hours and 28 minutes may seem long to many, but after you watch this version, I promise that you will understand it more and I know you will like it even more than the theatrical version. What are you waiting for, buy it right away!
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing
Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has got to be the best movie ever made, because I can certainly not think of anything to match it. This movie beautifully adapts Tolkien's literary masterpiece with a cinematic masterpiece to match. The scenery is beautiful, the special effects are amazing, the acting is world class, and the driving image and feeling behind this movie is unprecendented. Never will you see a better movie. If you have not already bought this movie, you are definitely missing something you should not live without.
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Summary: What an EPIC!
Review: This is one of the best movies ever made. So what if it did not follow the book precisely? The movie was better. Rarely do any of the "Book Adaptations" to the big screen do the original book justice, yet this movie has mananged to do that and then some. First of all, the cinematography of this movie is mesmerizing and the DVD set does it complete justice. The acting performances were superb as was the way it was meted out. If you have not seen this movie or any of the other ones in the 3 part saga, then you are missing out on an Epic treat. This is an excellent movie that was executed perfectly. The DVD set has many awesome features and "Lord of the Rings" specials and or documenteries. Of course the added footage is what seals the deal for buying the set. Don't think twice about it, buy the set today!
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Summary: A wealth of information for the real LOTR fan
Review: Rarely do you run into a DVD version of a movie of this level. Peter Jackson set out to provide fans of LOTR with a treasure to keep for life, with an extended version of the movie (provided in two of the four discs) that thoroughly complements the story we saw in the theaters. But it was no mere putting the deleted scenes back in. The added material was the result of uncovering a whole additional layer of footage that was left out for time reasons, but with the same quality of the rest of the movie, just having been edited out because it was not critical for the purposes of telling the story, yet I'd argue that it complements it in such a way that I can't conceive the movie without these moments now. As for the features, then again, the movie lent itself to a very broad array of things to share. Unlike a Star Wars Episode, where most of the action took place in the digital world, LOTR had a bit of everything that it made use of: shots in the open (leveraging the beauty of New Zealand), live action in full-size sets, detail shots of miniatures, CG-characters thrown into real sets, virtual sets with real actors, virtual characters in virtual sets, and even a virtual camera in a virtual set, where real actors would be superimposed (the fight of the Fellowship against the cave troll in Moria). There's a wealthy and health mix of technology and art in the movie in a way that maintains a balance that can satisfy all tastes. Plus there's all the culture of each of the races of Middle Earth poured into all the components that make up the story (garments, armor, weapons, makeup, architecture, etc.) to materialize this infinitely rich tapestry that Tolkien wove with his words some five decades ago. All of this is shared with the viewer in generous detail to satisfy even the most demanding LOTR fan. I am now on to "The Two Towers - Platinum Series Special Extended Edition" and you?
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Summary: The Journey Begins
Review: From its breathtaking opening scene, to its wrenching end, "The Fellowhsip of the Ring" leaves you eager for the second and third. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is the first chapter to the greatest 3 films EVER made. Based truthfully on J.R.R Tolkein's masterpiece, the movie adaption swipes through other unsuccessful triologies such as "The Matrix" and "Terminator". Triology Films have the unfortunate tendancy to lose its grip as the story through the films proceed, but Peter Jackson's ingenious version of "The Lord of the Rings" is by a milestone an exception, finally bringing the term "Film Triology" out of the darkness. The "Fellowship" begins with an awe-striking prologue featuring revolutionary visual-effects so brilliant, not once do you think about them. Within the country of Mordor, the evil Sauron has forged, in the fires of Mount Doom the One Ring. In it he pours his mallice and hatred, powers so great it performs an immediate magnetic force upon the one who bares it. Centuries after a great war to rid Middle Earth of the Ring fails, it finds itself into the hands of the most unlikely creature of all... Here is where we meet charmingly innocent Hobbit Frodo. The nephew of the famous Bilbo Baggins. By coinsodence the One Ring falls into the grasp of Frodo, who appears to have an unusual resistance to the Ring's evil. Learning of the Ring's terrible power, Frodo embarks on the journey that will eventaully toss his world upside down, and ventures towards the fires of Mt. Doom, the only place where the ring can be disposed. Along the way, Frodo is accompanied by the Fellowship, a team of 4 hobbits, a man, an elf, a dwarf and wizard oathed to guide the Ring Barer through the perilous journey to teh heart Mordor. The quest is a road of fear, heartache and pain, and soon Frodo begins to feel the magnetic pull towards the Ring, realising that he must complete the journey alone with his guardian Sam. This film is everything you look for in an epic: exquised battle sequences and intensity. The movie explores priceless themes, such as hope, friendship, bravery, trust and begins the unbreakable bond between two unlikely heros. Winner of 4 Acedemy Awards, harmonised by an amazing musical score, exploding with feeling and grace, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is truly one of the greatest films EVER made!
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Summary: The Finding Of The One Ring
Review: The first movie tells of the finding of the "One Ring." Evil begins to return to the land of MiddleEarth as the dark lord begins to search for his ring. This ring will allow him to cover the world in a second darkness. A fellowship forms to keep the ring from his possesion and try to end his eveil reign forever.
An excellent DVD with almost an hour of very good deleted scenes. It is rare to find a DVD with deleted scenes that are actually good. These deleted scenes have been put into the mocie itself so you don't have to watch them seperately, finally an idea that makes sense.
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Summary: Smoke & mirrors...
Review: I ordinarily don't bother to leave less than rave reviews. But frankly I'm at a loss to understand the hyperbole over this film. I have read and re-read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, since the 1960s. I've pored over maps of middle earth- in short, I'm a fan. This film is stunningly beautiful, as are the people in it (Elijah Wood's face is nothing short of incredible), but geez, it's a one trick pony. It's beautiful, to be sure, with stunning special affects, but how many times can you get a lump in your throat or feel trepidation over the the struggles of the pure of heart against the ring's terrible power? Yes, the little hobbits are brave. Yes, they persevere in the face of evil and imminent danger. That's about it. Where's the character development? Where are the intricate relationships? I don't fault the director or the actors, they are splendid (Eliah Wood in particular). I just think that the marvel of Tolkien's writing cannot be well-translated to the screen- the WRITING was the thing for me. Like Gone with the Wind. Gone with the Wind was a pretty good movie (with many more plot turns than Lord of the Rings), but it really was impossible to bring Margaret Mitchell's marvelous writing to the screen, no matter how magnificent the sets. What I'm talking about are feelings and impressions, levels & intricacies of description that are difficult to present in a purely visual medium. Lord of the Rings was beautiful, but I found it boring after the first 15 minutes, sorry, no depth. For me the antithesis of this film is Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Oddysey- a film I watch over & over, laden with meaning and portent from beginning to end. Another favorite- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I don't know, maybe there was just too much action jammed into too little time, with not enough quiet moments for the wonder to soak in, at least for me (after all, reading lets it unfold at a slower pace). Perhaps I would have been more impressed had I not read the books. Although a completely different kind of film, I would recommend "Lorenzo's Oil" as an inspiring [true] story about courage and invincibility in the face of adversity and staggering odds.
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