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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: A Flawless Masterpiece
Review: I didn't want to read Tolkien's work but my aunt made. I just thought Harry Potter was way better. So I started with The Hobbit. I loved it and after that I got The Lord of the Rings from the library and I didn't think I'd finish it before the due date so I brought The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit boxed set on .... Now I have it to keep. I saw The Fellowship of the Ring and I think Peter Jackson did a great job along with all the other filmakers. My favorites were Elijah Wood and Billy Boyd. I visit lordoftherings.net and theonering.net every night. Now I like Tolkien's work better than the Harry Potter series. I think everyone should at least see the movie. You don't know what your missing. I almost missed all the good stuff!
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Summary: Wait until November for the special edition
Review: I think if you really loved this movie then you should wait until November to buy the version with extra scenes and more special features. For less then 10 dollars more it's a better buy in the long run. If you haven't seen the movie yet read the book first so it will be less confusing. Liv Tyler's expanded role didn't bother that much but you have to admit she isn't beautiful or maybe it's bc they put way too much foundation on her so her face looks really cakey.
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Summary: i don't get it
Review: I see a few people saying this is a bad movie. Well if you didn't read the book or didn't understand the book, i could see that. I think Jackson is a genius. This movie is exactly how i pictured it while i read it. He leaves out some uneeded characters such as Bombadil, who in my opinion was a tad annoying. The Special effects were great, not like you can have relasitic lookin magic done by someone throwing glitter into the air. ACting was very good, not Al pacino in godfather good... but great nonetheless. It is now my favorite movie, passin Return of the Jedi, Last of the Mohicans, Ocean's 11 (the rat pack version), Laurance of Arabia etc. I am a huge fan of books to movies when the director follows the books and doens't change much. My father who is a avid Tolkien fan... said he thought the movie was unbielievably good. And what people need to remember is its a story a true trilogy , nothing like Star Wars that has ending each one. This is made like a book is.
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Summary: MIDDLE-EARTH MAGIC
Review: When this film made it's theatrical debut, it did not receive a glowing review in the pages of a local paper (Desert Post Weekly in Palm Springs) for which I write DVD reviews. In fact, it was ridiculed and mocked in theme and execution. However, the movie went on to be New Line's highest grossing box office hit ever. Not only that, it was on over 150 national critics' year-end top ten lists and received thirteen Oscar© nominations making it one of the most honored films in Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences history.So what is it about this first part of J. R. R. Tolkein's trilogy that touched such a nerve with a global audience and deserves a second look on the home screen? The plot is a mythic, epic vision of good versus evil, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" recounts the heroic quest of Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), a peaceful hobbit entrusted with a terrible responsibility. Accompanied by an assamblage of elves, dwarves, hobbits, human warriors, and the god wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), Frodo must travel through Middle-earth to the land of Mordor in order to destroy the all-powerful One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged. Relentlessly pursued by Dark Lord Sauron's dark riders, marauding orcs, cave trolls and goblins summoned by evil wizard Saruman the White (Christopher Lee), the Fellowship must resist the ring's unlimited powers to seduce and corrupt. Whereas "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is about gaining power through occult means, "The Lord of the Rings" is about resisting such powers -- and therein lies the higher moral imperative. Complex and sophisticated in its nuanced unfolding, Tolkein's tale delivers a more timeless examination of the very real temptations that pull at our every day human lives.
Tolkein's story harkens back to the Ring of Gyges in Plato's Republic as it was told by Glaucon to Socrates. Glaucon argues the poiunt that men are inherently unjust, restrained on their actions only by law and society. Glaucon's point is that unlimited power beclouds the difference between just and unjust. A glance at the front page of any recent newspaper seems to confirm Glaucon's position. Tolkein variation of Gyges ring has been called "...perhaps the most brilliant and richly rendered portrayal of power and corruptibility ever conceived." Many readers, scholars and critics consider Tolkein's epic the best of original works of fiction in the last century because it "combines masterful storytelling and overwhelming imaginative scope with the biggest of Big Themes." What writer, director, producer Peter Jackson accomplished is a major achievement. He not only honored the source material but managed to create the world in which Tolkein's characters live and breathe. In this age of cynicism, it is easy ridicule this old fashioned tale of good and evil, heroism and villainy, freedom and tyranny. The passing years have certainly not diminished the relevance of this potent metaphor of the responsibility of freedom. The two disc set comes in both a widescreen and full screen version. Both transfers are superb. Disc Two is filled with special features that include a behind the scenews preview of "The Two Towers, three in-depth mini documentaries that reveal the production secrets, fifteen featurettes orginally created for lordoftherings.net which explore the locales and culture of Middle-earth, Enya's "May It Be" music video and a look at the Special Extended DVD Edition of "The Lord of the Rings" available in a four disc set on November 12 that includes the much longer director's cut and many more extras.
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Summary: A GREAT FILM BUT MANY FEATURES NOT INCLUDED ON THIS EDITION
Review: First and foremost let me say that I think that "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" is a great movie. I would give the movie five stars, but not this DVD edition of it! Greed has motivated the producers of this DVD to not include very much in the way of the extra features we have become use to on DVD releases. Why greed? Because in three months they will release the four disc EXTENDED edition of the movie. It will be this edition that will have the deleted scenes and the audio commentaries and the other features on the making of the movie that this current edition lacks. Greed because among the "extras" this edition holds is a plug for the extended edition and the video game based on the first two films. So I guess you can spend your [$$] now and then wait three months and spend [more $$'s] to see the deleted scenes (about 30 minutes worth) and all the other extra features that should really have been included on this release. I'm sure the producers hope you'll still have the [$$] left in your pocket to pay to see the next film in the triolgy that gets released a month after the extended DVD comes out. We own the current release, and again the pleasure of seeing the movie in of itself is worth the purchase. But I don't think I'll fork over another thirty dollars in just three months for the extras that I for one feel should have been included in this edition. Mayby I'll rent it... The fans get the short end of the deal on this DVD...
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Summary: A GREAT start to a GREAT series
Review: This was one of the best movies I have ever seen. The actors are good, the effects are great, the action is riveting, and it even follows the book pretty closely, leaving out only a few parts...
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Summary: I was left speechless
Review: I can't begin to put into words how amazing this film is, but I'll give it a shot. First let me say that it should've won best picture at the oscars.
This movie does what few others have done before it, it makes you feel as though you are in middle earth, that you are there with them. The last movie to absorb the audience this well was Star Wars, so that tells you how terrific this film is when it is being compared to Star Wars. Ian McKellan was superb as the wise wizard Gandalf and Sean Astin gave a subtle and perhaps overlooked performance as Frodo's friend Samwise. And we can't forget the talented Orlando Bloom who shot those arrows like there was no tomorrow. This movie will live on forever. I think I can say this without seeing the other two, but this is going to be the best triology since the Star Wars triology.
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Summary: Lord of the Rings is lord of the movies!
Review: Lord of the Rings, the enthralling trilogy of books, is now an epic motion picture trilogy. The first installment of the Rings set is the Fellowship of the Ring. Peter Jackson did an excellent job of keeping most of the book in tact, though a few bits and pieces were missing here and there. J.R.R. Tolkien fans and non-readers alike will enjoy this dark and mysterious ride into Middle-Earth. If one has never read the novel, they will be able to pick up on the plot quick enough, seeing as how, at the start of the movie, they do a quick lesson in the history of Middle-Earth and the Ring. This it is not a childrens movie (please note the PG-13 rating) so don't let your kids watch it unless you know that they won't get scared, because there are some scenes in which the characters are engaged in battle. With an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood (North, The Ice Storm), Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters, Richard the III), and Viggo Mortensen (28 Days, Passion of Darkly Noon)you can't go wrong with this movie.
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Summary: amazing movie
Review: This is an amazing movie, the way the story line is followed and how it keeps true to the book was just great. Not many movies can do as well as these actors in making the great literary work the lord of the rings into a film that is just as good.
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