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Summary: A Wonderful Movie Experience
Review: I enjoyed this movie thoroughly. It is very well paced and extremely well casted. Peter Jackson did a wonderful job directing this movie and the actors did a wonderful job at bringing the characters to life. Although it is a long movie, it did not seem so at all. As I said above, it was very well paced. I was not prepared for the movie to end as I was ready to continue my adventure with the Fellowship. I found the movie to be extremely enjoyable and it was quite an adventure. I am so looking forward to The Two Towers in December.
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Summary: If you haven't read the books .........
Review: ........ don't let that keep you from watching the movie. I can say this
from experience, as i hadn't read the books. You might conceivably enjoy
it more if you've read the books, but then if you haven't, you don't
know what's coming, which makes for more fun too :-) I, for one, loved the movie, and i'm told that this is just the 'appetizer'
& the plot really unfolds in 'The two towers' - i can hardly wait !! The sets are magnificent, in fact they don't look like sets. The special
effects, the cinematography, script - all the technical aspects are
excellent. The performances are good, with Ian McKellen as Gandalf being
outstanding, for which he bagged an Oscar nomination. Some may crib about the story being 'compressed', but the film's already
three hours long(though those that enjoy it won't realise!) - come on,
give Peter Jackson a break here, the guy's done a great job of what
might've been a daunting task for any director. My interest in the trilogy's been aroused to such an extent that i'm
now reading the books and will greet 'The two towers' with the anticipation
of one waiting to see if his imagination agrees with that of the director. All in all, a big thumbs up - unless you dislike fantasy adventures,
you're likely to love this film !!
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Summary: Unbeknownst to Oscar, The Masterpiece of the year!
Review: When I first heard that there would be another film adaptation of LOTR, I really didn't think much of it. Because I hadn't read any of the books. But as more announcements were made, stating that not only would they make a movie, they would make three back to back, with a relatively unknown director from New Zealand, staring the child actor from Forever young, I began to listen. Almost four years later, after four viewings of The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first installment of the famed trilogy, I stand in awe of this achievement. I being a filmmaker myself, a screenwriter also, may see this as a greater win for everyone involved more so than the average viewer. Again, those viewers being Tolkien fans, maybe not. Elijah Wood, Sir Ian MacKellen, Christopher Lee, and Viggo Mortenson, a man with which stardom should have been begging years ago, inhabit the story that so many people worldwide have been trying to imagine in one form or another for nearly fifty years. They've pulled it off. From the luscious Academy-Award winning cinematography of Andrew Lesnie to the harmonizing sounds of Howard Shore's graceful yet emotional score, from a beautifuly written adaptation to the sure-handedness of Peter Jackson's direction, this film will certainly take you on a journey, eliciting every emotion only few motion pictures these days can- and succeeds! Now, given a year that was rife with politics, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to bestow the honor of best picture to A Beautiful Mind, a competant picture in it's own right. From many critics and Academy members themselves, it has been said that this film could not have won this year solely on the excuse that there are still two films to come, so why not reward all three with ROTK? Well, I was under the assumption that the best film of the year would prevail as the best film of the year. I guess not. Is LOTR:FOTR as good as it is being praised? Yes, and then some. But rather than hear it from my mouth, go out and see the film, and enjoy it for what it was originally written for: Entertainment.
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Summary: Lord Of The Rings-Best Movie of the Year
Review: This was the best movie I have ever seen! Not only was the cinematography incredible, the characters were so wonderfly casted, and the plot was so action-packed! You were sitting on the edge of youre seat the whole movie! You cheered with the characters triumphs, you cried when the character was hurt or lost. Enchanting, amazing, incredible, astounding, truly one of a kind.
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Summary: Very Magnificent Movie
Review: The LOTR is the most magnificent movie I ever saw in my entire life. It was lavishly set in the lush landscape of New Zealand. The actors and actresses in the movie played their roles to the hilt. I can't wait for the movie to be out on video. My all-around favorite character is Aragorn played by an extraordinarily gifted actor Viggo Mortensen. At first, Aragorn refuses to assume kingship over Gondor because of Isildur's bane, the one ring which his ancestor hoped to aid his kingdom turned out to be a curse. As a result, Isildur and three of his four sons were killed by orcs. The line of kings were broken as a result and that later monarchs were either murdered by orcs, Aragorn's father was one of them. In the meantime, Bilbo Baggins, Frodo's uncle, went on a series of trips with the Dwarves to retrieve treasure for them. He stumbled upon a ring, the one ring which betrayed Isildur and abandoned Gollum/Smeagol from his very hand. He picked it up, not knowing that it gives terrible power.
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Summary: Not A Fantasy Fan
Review: I have been a mild follower of faeries and dwarves, etc. for as long as I can remember, but I had never read the Hobbit or any of Tolkien's marvelous works prior to getting a free ticket to see this movie on the opening release. I was absolutely awestruck at how well Peter Jackson portrayed this fantasy world as reality, and how I fell in love with it. I feel bad that some of the 'little' characters were not so well developed (as I found them to be once I started reading the books) and would hope that in the next two they get a little more life to their part of Middle Earth. This movie is by-far the best that I have seen in a very long time!!! I anxiously await the release of the DVD in August and November... I will be first in line to get them... and also at the opening of The Two Towers.
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Summary: Lord of the Rings
Review: When I went to see Lord of the Rings I was expecting to see something much like Harry Potter- I was some what decieved! Lord of the Rings was a terrific movie! It had every genre imaginable- action, comidy, romance, fantisy, mystery, and more. It made me very interested in J. R. R. Tolkien's writing and when I got home, having not read the books at the time, I picked up the second book.
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Summary: The best movie I've seen in a long time!
Review: When I first went to see this movie I was doubtful. I had not read any of the books, and first thought that the film seemed far too long. After seeing the film though, I was absolutely overjoyed. Everything about it was great. I have now read all the books, and see what an amazing job the film did of recreating Middle-Earth and everything in it. Director Peter Jackson did a wonderful job, and all of the cast was very well chosen. All the actors seemed as if this was the part that they were meant to play. I reccommend this film to everyone, if you have read the books or not. I can't wait for the DVD to come out, and be able to watch this film again and again.
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Summary: best movie ever? nah..
Review: i have a number of quarrels with this movie, but i'm still giving it five stars because i did enjoy it enough to go right back ...[the same day to watch it again] the best part of this film, i think, is the scale. the atmosphere, the immersiveness. i'm definitely a fan of escapist entertainment, and this is an amazing piece in terms of that. the sets were absolutely amazing. things like the vast mines of moria ...just make the world seem so dull when you leave the theater. so i enjoyed being sucked in by all that grandiosity and stuff. to be ridiculously cliche about it, they definitely do bring tollkien's world to life. i can't really elaborate on the book/movie relationships because i haven't read them in so long, but i plan to read them all again, Hobbit included... ...movies are much more detrimental to your enjoyment of a book than vice versa. the point of a piece of fiction is that you use your imagination to bring the story to life. if you've already seen the movie, then all of that is just being spoon-fed to you. ... so now that i've expounded on how much i enjoyed it, ...here are the various problems that occured to me while watching. mind you these are minor in my opinion, not big enough to prevent me from seeing it again right after. first off, i thought there was a generally overblown melodrama to everything. certain scenes where nothing is really happening, but the music swells and swells, and there's this sort of lapse of inwardly troubled looks and swelling music. i just didn't like that, every once in a while i thought the drama was taken too far, the music got a little irritating. you just need a break from that now and then. also there was the archaic speech, which never comes off well. you have to kind of flow along with it, otherwise it becomes extremely annoying with all its inverse grammar and universally british accents. that does lend something to the atmosphere of the film, but at the same time, its very obviously acting, and it is such throughout the film, all this overblown drama and intoning of weighty words. the agent smith guy ...struck me as exceptionally stupid. he sounded like a kid playing in the back yard at times. "the ring...must be.....DESSTTROOOYYYED!!!" thats annoying. i'm not into that. but whatever, its a minor glitch. i guess thats my only complaint, i never got a sense that any of the characters were remarkably real. that is something that is accomplished in only a few movies i've seen ... there's plenty of emotion, but its all the same cheezy hollywood fantasy emotion, and you never get a break from it, so you never really connect with it either. its just your average movie-schlock. ah yes, my other complaint is that scene with gandalf fighting the head of his order. ...its not bad until he starts spinning gandalf around. ...it was just sort of ludicrous and killed the darkness of the scene. by the way, i did enjoy the overall dark feel of the movie. as i said before, while that meant lots of somewhat ...[bad] acting and dialogue, i think it gave the whole film a much more immersive feel. oh yeah, and worst line in the movie, approximately quoted: "we can perservere, if we stay true.....(dramatic pause).......to each other!!" oh god, so sappy. ...
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Summary: Entertaining and fun
Review: It has cinematography and general visuals that are absolutely remarkable. But a bunch of undeserved oscars (best supporting actor, best director, best adapted screenplay) and praise hat seems overlauded. I mean, Ian McKellan is an unquestionably remarkable actor (he's done some great work with Shakespeare on stage) and Peter Jackson's a director who's very talented, and the book it's based upon may be the best work of fantasy since Carrol's Alice books. But . . . In general, I enjoyed it. I left the movie and I was happy, I didn't feel as if I wasted my money. But it doesn't stick in my mind the way some of the other movies I've seen this year have (like Memento and Mulholland Drive). It's at times surprising, at times predictable, and very well made for the action flick that it seems to become. It's a clash of art and action (unfortunately more action than art) Watch it. Be skeptical. The movie's not rich enough to justify a second viewing, but good.
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