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Summary: A collection of worn-out banalities....
Review: ...I might be the only one to think that movie is nothing more than your very average Hollywood Heroic Fantasy film. I simply had the feeling that I was presented with a mix of the stereotypical imageries, created by past directors who had drawn their inspiration from Tolkien's "Lord of the Ring", and then so much borrowed by other ones that they have become complete banalities. I didn't read that book but I had heard many critics and people say that the director for this movie had truly succeeded where many had failed: to translate the spirit of the book into cinematographic actions and to present a very accurate pictural description of Tolkien's world. For this reason, I really expected something very different from the other Heroic Fantasy productions I had seen in the past, since I had always thought that they were pretty cheap and commonplace. With regards to this first point, I was quite disappointed: TLOR is a collection of awfully banal"déjà -vu" and the spectacular special effects don't even succeed in compensating for this major flaw. With regard to the plot and the story, I was also quite disappointed. I almost fell asleep after 30 minutes and the movie lasts for three very long hours! The characters are so unidimensional that they are completely predictable! The moral of the story is also terribly cheap: one always need a smaller one than oneself and purity, friendship, courage, honesty are everything, and bla, bla, bla, bla.....BLA! I think I saw enough Hollywood movies repeating this like a mantra to have already gotten the point! If it is only to tell us that, then the director could have very well left it very deep into the background subtext! So, I give this movie only one star, because there is nothing new or original that could have justified either the fortune that was spent on it or the whole fuss the media did about it. The story was bad, the special effects only a computerized enhancement of already treated down at heel tricks and the acting completely banal. This comes hardly to the level of an average common TV-production. Don't count on me to buy the DVD! Even the movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is way better than this!
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Summary: an odessey for our generation
Review: the lord of the rings transcends film making as a mere commodity and restores or better yet advances film to the artform it should be and in the process has left us with a vision as palpable and moving as a rodin sculpture a mozart opera or a norse saga.
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: I finished reading the first book hours before I saw the movie, and I was amazed at how close the actually stuck to the story in the book. The movie does go a little into the second book, so make sure you have read the first couple of chapters of The Two Towers!!! The acting and the scenery were amazing...the best I have seen in a long time!! This is a must see for everyone!!
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Summary: The Lord of the Movies (this year's at least)
Review: When I walked into the theater, I really didn't know what to expect. I was just hoping this movie wouldn't turn into the mess that was Ralph Bakashi's animated version. Boy was I in for a treat. All the special effects, locations, performances, and musical themes are right on target. Some quibble about early Hobbit scenes and songs being cut out, as well as an extended role for Arwen the Elf, but I say that these decisions did no serious damage to Tolkein's vision (actually, the extended Hobbit scenes did some damage to the epic feel of the book). Besides, we would do well to see how it works as a film rather than constantly comparing it to the book, and directors like Peter Jackson must be allowed to have creative freedom. That was the mistake that Harry Potter made; the filmmakers were too faithful to the book and tried to squeeze everything into 2 and 1/2 hours. Here, however, the movie never feels rushed or slow. It offers a great story about loyalty, friendship, strength, good vs. evil and keys to absolute power that must be destroyed. Let's just hope that Lord of the Rings walks away with all of the Oscars it was nominated for.
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Summary: The Best Movie Made After The Best Book!!!
Review: After reading "The Lord of the Rings," I immediately fell in love with the genius and creativity put into every word of his book. I've seen the movie twice now (first on opening day and then on the foolowing Saturday) and I would have to say that every piece of it fits into Tolkien's world just the way he would like it (so I believe). This movie is a masterpiece of the film world, just as the novel was in the literary world. While I know that it is impossible to put all that Tolkien created in his first book into this one movie, I just don't think they could hace done a better job.
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Summary: AWESOME AND AMAZING
Review: This is an awesome movie.
An Awesome book. Read the book first. We can't wait for the next one to come out.
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Summary: sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: it is awesome!!!!!!!!! and its scary. its just like the book!
and even better then I thought it would be! It is the best scifi movie in the world!!!!!!!!! you have to see it now!!! its awesome!!!! Its even better then star wars!!!!!!!!!! Go see it now!!!!!!!!!!! it is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: sweet!!!!!!!!!
Review: it is awesome!!! and its scary. its just like the book!
and even better then I thought it would be! It is the best scifi movie in the world!!! you have to see it now!!! its awesome!!!! Its even better then star wars!!!!!!!!!! Go see it now!!!!!!!!!!! it is awesome!!!!!!!
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Summary: Best Movie
Review: It was a good Movie one of my favorites. It has a lot of action in it. It is a very exciting movie.
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Summary: The best film I have seen yet!
Review: I absolutely loved this movie. The cast made it the movie even better. Elijah Wood was sooo good at playing Frodo. I don't really care about the length of the movie because I expect the other two to be just as long, but it kept my attention throughout the entire thing that I didn't even notice that three hours had gone by. I enjoyed it more the second time after I read The Hobbit and the LOTR series. I've noticed is that you have to read The Hobbit in order to understand the origin of certain things, like the mithril coat, a little better. All in all I can't wait for the next two.
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