* * * The Lord of the Rings REVIEW THREAD! Post your reviews in here!! (here's mine...)

[Nefrodite]

hm well for ppl bitching about lord elron, the actor doesn't seem to talk that way in the matrix revisted dvd i'm watching right now. so bah! you just watch matrix too mcuh

 

[PlatinumGold]

finally

does anyone remember what gollum was before he became that "shadow of himself"?

his name was originally smeagle (not sure of spelling) i believe.

 

[abaez]

finally

does anyone remember what gollum was before he became that "shadow of himself"?

his name was originally smeagle (not sure of spelling) i believe.

Gollum was a hobbit but he did not live in the shire. I think it was his brother (cousin?) Deagol that found the ring
in the river, but it was his (Smeagols) birthday, and he asked his brother for it for his birthday but his brother
did not give it to him so he killed him and took the ring for himself. He used it to spy on his family and things and was finally
told to leave by his mother I think. Then he goes into the caves and lives for 500 years until Bilbo finds the ring.

 

[StUdMaN]

I thought the movie was great
I especially liked the action(none of that bs slow motion stuff you see in too many movies nowdays-I hate that)
I have read the books-not for a while but it seems they did an excellent job of adapting the movie from the book
I wish they would make one about the origin of Melkor and up to his ultimate defeat

 

[StUdMaN]

all the charaters were good
I liked Christopher Lee the best

 

[StUdMaN]

is treebeard Tom Bombadil?havent read the books for a while

 

[tedthebear]

Santa gave me a Palantir for Christmas! It's way cool. It's a blue globe seated in a black marble base. The globe glows and when you peer into it you see moving clouds and curling mists...
Actually, it's called The Mystic Lite by Rabbit Tanaka Design. I bought it on sale for $39.99 at the lamp store. I gave my friend Terry one so that we can communicate with them.

Thursday, I will go see FOTR for the 2nd time.

 

[StUdMaN]

the oscars are fixed
in order to get an oscar an actor has to play either
a gay "oppressed"
a cripple overcoming
a retard
a woman fighting for supposed equal rights(who has been wronged by all us men)
anything portraying the holocaust is a sure winner no matter how boring it is
or any mob movie with obnoxious italians portrayed as killers who arent so bad
any boring movie that shows tim robbins smiling like a mongoloid who just huffed paint for ten minuets(i.e. red planet)
whatever it is it must be long and boring and quer

 

[The4thAge]

I'm new here, but I wanted to add that I loved this film and I expect the following two films will be even better.

I also wanted to add that I want New Line Cinema to release the Director's Cut DVD with the additional 40 minutes they cut out of the film. I want to see a dual DVD set, one with the theatrical cut and also A Director's Cut version of the film that would run 4 hours.

There is an online petition to make it soHERE.

This film was very good, but I too felt the beginning felt a little rushed. I want the DVD to be GREAT.

 

[The4thAge]

<< great movie in almost all respects:

great casting
great acting
great scene design
great special effects

but my gripe: 1 hour too long.

now i haven't read the book, so I don't know if certain events will become important later in the trilogy, but for example, why did frodo and his funky bunch have to visit that forest with the canoes? that scene seemed to have nothing to do with the story, other than the fact that it showed another person who was able to resist the ring. that scene took up a good chunk of time, which prevented me from evacuating my bladder about 30 minutes sooner.

since i'm mentioning restroom breaks, the movie seriously needed an intermission.

also, seeing how this is a movie, and not a line-by-line dramatization of the text, couldn't we have skipped the mine scene and have gandalf go away during some other fight?

i guess all i'm saying is that the movie dragged a bit, and for no apparent reason other than to stay true to the text.

overall i was very impressed, and i'll definitely watch the next two movies. but it did draaaag for me. >>



Uhm, if you haven't read the story I'm wondering why you think the film dragged..."to stay true to the text". I understand your point of view, but I think it's largely due to the film being cut down to fit under 3 hours. I think the Director's Cut DVD will actually be a BETTER film than what's currently in the theatres because the format will allow PJ to release the COMPLETE first book. There are reasons for the things that happen in the film (Arwen is the daughter of Elrond...leader of the council...and she is Aragorn's love interest), but because PJ couldn't expect people to sit in theatres for 4 hours (I won't even mention how much they would lose on daily showings in theatres) so cuts were made to fit it under the 3 hour max.

The 4 hour DVD will be one of the greatest films ever.

 

[exp]

Well, I just saw LOTR again and as everyone has said it is even better the second time around. I stopped focusing on the changes from the books and was able to notice a lot of smaller details that I missed the first time around. For example, am I imagining things or were the nails for the black rider's steed's horseshoe (seen when the hobbits are hiding under a tree in the Shire) driven all the way up through the hoof?? There did seem to be some kind of bloody spike protruding from the hoof. Freaky...

OTOH I was reminded of two more complaints I had:
-- Boromir's horn was utter crap. It sounded more like an overblown party favor than something that would strike fear into any orcs.
-- WTF was the point of that whole scene between Arwen and Frodo after the flood swept away the Nazgul? "I leave you my grace" or some such nonsense. There is no reason that should have been in the movie, especially not when you consider all the other cool scenes that were shot but didn't make the cut (Boromir's dream sequence, Gimli's infatuation with Galadriel, etc.).

 

[kami]

<< WTF was the point of that whole scene between Arwen and Frodo after the flood swept away the Nazgul? "I leave you my grace" or some such nonsense. There is no reason that should have been in the movie, especially not when you consider all the other cool scenes that were shot but didn't make the cut (Boromir's dream sequence, Gimli's infatuation with Galadriel, etc.). >>


I think she was transferring some of her "lifeforce" or powers into Frodo so he could survive til he could be healed by Elrond.

 

[AGodspeed]

My review:

Characters: I rarely say this, but I liked every single character in ?Fellowship of the Ring?. The actor who played Sam was perfect as Frodo's friend. A little comic relief, etc. was exactly what that character brought to the movie. All other characters were great of course.

Scenery: Wonderful. The Shire, etc. was very well done. Very good is all I can say.

Architecture: The hobbit's houses were very realistic and all other buildings looked great.

Computer Animation: Very very good. I don't know exactly what measure determines how advanced computer animation is, but it seemed right up there with Episode I.

Story: Of course it was good, duh!

Length: Perfect. Maybe they should have cut out a scene or two, but maybe I'm just tired right now.

Overall experience: Take a guess.

Anyone who read the books realized before they saw ?Fellowship of the Ring? that the ending could be disappointing to many people, since it leaves too much to be desired in "The Two Towers", but still, I tried to look at the movie as a whole, and not just the ending.

Rating = 9.5 (on a scale of 1-10).

 

[wyvrn]

This movie was awesome. I read the hobbit and part of Fellowship but not the rest when I was young... the movie brought the book back to me. Very well done, and if I had more time I might read the trilogy because of it.

 

[abaez]

is treebeard Tom Bombadil?havent read the books for a while

No, tom is one of the first different characters the hobbits meet when they set out, if you can
remember he is the one sing the crazy songs carrying lilies and he has his wife Goldberry and for
some reason he does nothing but sing and skip around his forest. He also saves Frodo and friends
from the barrow wight that caught them in the downs.

Treebeard of course is the tree (ent) from Fanghorn (Fangorn?) who leads the assault on Isengard.

 

[abaez]

Everyone sign this petition so they will release the film in full form.

 

[TheWart]

got back from my first viewing today (my family threatened me not to see it while i was back east in school), and wow am i impressed. kudos to a film that remains true 99% of the time to its book. not much to add to previous posts, but just to say how perfect all the characters were for their parts, and how real the CG was. look forward with great anticipation to the next two!

 

[Swanny]

I thought the movie could have been much better done. They put some things in there that weren't in the book that should have been left out (like Galadriel doing the big monster I want the ring thing) and they left some things out that should have been in (like Legolas and Gimli arguing over who is the more beautiful elf). For those reasons I signed the petition.

However, that casting could have been much better for almost all the roles. Bilbo, Frodo, Aragorn, and a few others were ok, but for the most part the casting didn't portray the characters and Tolkien made them. The soundtrack was pretty darn bad. The battle scenes lacked the order and meaning they had in the book. The overall landscape and color editing of the film could have been much better. Anyway, those are just a few of the many things they could have improved upon.

 

[Rellik]

Contrary to most of my actions, I have done what most ppl do now:
I ordered the Hobbit, LOTR and the Silmarillion from Amazon.
LOTR-Related books are making up 50% of the top 25 LIST!!!

If this is not a testament to PJ, nothing is.


Update; Just saw it again(3rd time) and it´s still a charm. I finally
saw Legolas walking on the snow etc... I thought the movie would fade or lose some force but it still had me at the edge. I will see it again. The only movie I saw in the theater 4 times was Titanic.. And
that one was leaving it´s magic after the second viewing...Not that it was bad, it was still the movie to see in that year.

I can´t wait till the books get here...go ups...fight that snow..

 

[VBboy]

I think the movie sucked a BIG one!

There is no ending, no climax, no conclusion. I don't care how the original story ends. I don't want to spend (waste) 3 hours without seeing any complete ending. Wtf. It's like reading a book that has the last 200 pages missing.

It was a waste of time for me, even though everything looks pretty good: nice special effects and so forth. Too much devine signing, though - I still have RINGing in my ears

 

[kami]

VBboy, you do know that the story is continued in two more films right? It was meant to end there. One story seperated into 3 movies.

new line really should've advertised this more...or at least put a "to be continued" at the end. i've had to tell this to so many people then they say "oooohhhhhh, that makes sense then...."

grr :disgust:

 

[datalink7]

<< I think the movie sucked a BIG one!

There is no ending, no climax, no conclusion. I don't care how the original story ends. I don't want to spend (waste) 3 hours without seeing any complete ending. Wtf. It's like reading a book that has the last 200 pages missing.

It was a waste of time for me, even though everything looks pretty good: nice special effects and so forth. Too much devine signing, though - I still have RINGing in my ears >>



GAH! There was no ending because the story isn't ended!!!! This is the first of 3 movies, just as there are 3 books. When reading the books, there is climax at the end of the first book. You have to read through the end of the 3rd to reach the conclusion. It is the same with the movies.

 

[desy]

Yeah the climax is that Boromir dies and the fellowship disolves. . . Not every movie has a happy ending or resolves all the issues.
If this one bothered you your gonna hate the way the next one ends.
As far as characteriztions. Just cause you don't think they fit doesn't mean they didn't act the part adequatly how do you know what Tolkein intended?
Everybody minds eye of the characters is different and yes they didn't match what I envisioned either but hey this is somebody elses interpretation.
This is why you read books so a world is created between the author and your own imaginings .
This is put down in black and white for you. . .
And put down sensationally I might add.