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  • Lord of the Rings Movie Review (A few spoilers, but all are within the book too, and I assume everyones read the book)

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Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #47976  by Gone to Shakers
 Thu Dec 20, 2001 2:17 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm writing this now because I tried yesterday and the server was down, of course, as USUAL, it's Sine's fault, aparently he picked a server that also had a popular Lord of the Rings site on it!

Anyways, there were 6 of us, 3 guys and three girls, a chick (my chick) was driving so guess who the 4 were that were mashed in the back seat? As usual, I was cranking out the newfie jokes since the girl sitting in the front happened to be from the rock (all in good humor, after all, she's been tagging along with us for 2 years and has gone out with all of my friends pretty much), and I happen to be a real life asshole. Of the 6 of us, all the guys had read the book at least once, and the girl driving (my girlfriend) had read like 5 chapters a year ago, the newfie girl in the front had read it for the first time this year. So of course, we'd all be going in with different experiences.

ANYWAYS, we show up about 45 minutes early, people were already lined up, there were a bunch of freaks dressed up like Hobbits and Gandalf and other Characters from the book. We wait for about 15 minutes and then they let us through, and we managed to get seats in the near back where you can see the entire screen. We spend about 20 bucks on the expensive assed theatre food and eat most of it while waiting. I sit waiting, anticipating, and soon the previews start, they go on for what seamed like a half hour, ALL of them I don't think I havce ever seen before, including a new Austin Powers movie, and a few other surprises that I forgot. I remember one had some SNL people in it including that guy from Third Rock from the Sun (the father) and Chevy Chase, there was also some movie about Curling that looked like it could be either good or extremely boring.

So we waited and then the movie started, my heart began to race, and I figured, I'm GONNA be disapointed as hell with this movie, my expectations are WAY too high... The opening scene with the First war starts up, the Last Alliance vs. The Forces of Mordor. This Battle scene was INSANE, it ended off with Sauron coming out of his Dark Tower, Barad-dur (which was GIGANTIC) and he started fighting each hit knocked like 50 people flying back a few hundred feet to their deaths, DAMN! It looked awesome! The music and everything made for an extremely wicked assed atmosphere, I was back in my seat and almost to the point of shivering (you know that feeling you got in Junior high seeing tits for the first time, not just in a magazine or on TV, but ACTUAL TITS? THAT is the feeling), I guess you can call that, being BLOWN AWAY by the scene. The thing was, there were about 2 dozen or more scenes that were even better than that one throughout the movie. It was like a Roller Coaster ride, everything about it, the special effects were Insanity.

The Characters, they were a lot different than in those cheesy animated films, they were a lot more realistic in personality I found, especially Pippin and Merry of the Hobbits. The whole story about Boromir was WAY better done than I expected it would have been. Dramatically, the movie surpasses Braveheart, possibly the most critically acclaimed movie of the last decade, with the music, the special effects, and the VERY well done plot translation, this movie makes Braveheart seam lame (and THAT was my favorite movie of all time). The way the action is set up makes any anime movie I've seen a shadow in comparrison (And I'm a fanatic, even though I don't know the freaky "Otaku" stuff). Titanic was definetly surpassed in EVERY single area, from drama, to special effects, acting, plot, realism (Yes REALISM, Lord of the Rings seamed very real even though the stuff they do is physically impossible). The battle scenes were amazing, especially the one at the end of the movie and the one in Moria, Legolas fighting the Cave Troll was fucking awesome! Yeah, I'd say it would be hard to find a movie with comparable battle scenes, assuming they even exist right now. The Size of the armies in that movie was UNREAL, the special effects guys really know what the hell they were doing. The Balrog looked a lot like Ganon from Zelda Ocarina of Time, I can't wait until the next movie when Gandalf talks about his battle with the Balrog, because YOU KNOW they're going to show it.

So when the movie was all said and done, even with my enormous expectations, I must say I was shocked and blown away by this film, there aren't words to describe it: 10 out of 10, Greatest movie ever, a Masterpiece, a work of Art, but, I guess my first reaction was, It KICKED ASS! Fitting to have the Greatest movie of all time for the greatest Story ever told. And if you are wondering, all 6 of us had the EXACT same opinion, THE BEST movie ever made! Well, I guess until the Two Towers, everyone thought the Fellowship would make a bad movie compared to the other two books, The Return of the King making the best book of course, now just imagine what the next two movies are going to be like. As far as the Fellowship not making a great movie, everyone was sure as hell wrong on that point! Right now I'm not quite looking that much forward to the next movie, I'm mostly looking forward to seeing The Fellowship of the Ring again!

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<span style="background: black; color: black;">Anyways, going to beout for a while, at my cottage and I don't have an Internet package here, so it's costing me about 50 cents just to write this review.</span></div>

 #47977  by G-man Joe
 Thu Dec 20, 2001 3:52 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>I went to a ghetto theatre. The only theatre in my area not sold out. Damn cell phones going off, this kids yelling "Dayum! That whitey made dem muh-fuckas punk out wit dat muh-fuckin' bow!"</div>

 #47978  by ManaMan
 Thu Dec 20, 2001 7:56 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>I was just amazed by how alike the movie was to the mental pictures I had while reading the book.</div>

 #47979  by Gone to Shakers
 Thu Dec 20, 2001 9:54 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Excuse my sloppy grammar and the overuse of the words Kick and ass. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut, You get the point of my review =)</div>
 #47980  by Tessian
 Thu Dec 20, 2001 9:58 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Never has a movie affected me soo quickly and profoundly.. to see the world in my head for SIX months now (started The Hobbit in June) come to life in front of me so vividly... omg.. there were literally at least 5 scenes where I had to fight back tears. Sure they had to cut parts (like between The Shire & Bree) but you can only make the movie So long, so what they cut was acceptable. I couldn't believe it all.... I was taken back by how vividly they captured the book, can't wait to see a full picture of gollum (I did notice that they messed with that story just a weee bit; Gandalf did say that gollum was a man once, the movie said he was a creature.. but whatever). They added to the story in a way that told the beginning better than I think the books did so that non-readers can still follow (although I think reading it makes it 10x better). If they had done anymore they would have lost the non-reader crowd. I can't believe I have to wait a year to see The Two Towers!

Ohh, and that love story I was bitching about.. seems the previews really sold that, yet it didn't make more than 5 minutes of the movie.. I was very surprised by that. I forget whether she was actually in that part of the story or not.. but probably was.

MUST see it again... I am soo surprised how good this was.. I knew it would be good, but DAMN</div>

 #47982  by Gone to Shakers
 Thu Dec 20, 2001 10:10 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>All the scenes in the movie were the same as the ones from the book (with Arwen), EXCEPT, they replaced Glorfindels role with Arwen, no biggie, Glorfindel wasn't a major player in that book anyways.</div>

 #47983  by G-man Joe
 Fri Dec 21, 2001 10:25 am
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Glad they took out Tom Bombadil as well as Legolas singing.....constantly. =8^D</div>

 #47984  by ManaMan
 Fri Dec 21, 2001 10:54 am
<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>Gollum was a hobbit once.</div>

 #47985  by ManaMan
 Fri Dec 21, 2001 10:56 am
<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>That and when they were leaving the Shire... they changed that part almost completely.</div>

 #47986  by G-man Joe
 Fri Dec 21, 2001 11:11 am
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>I've seen it twice already. It was Gandalf who told Bilbo that Gollum was once a Hobbit in the prequel - The Hobbit.</div>

 #47990  by Tessian
 Fri Dec 21, 2001 3:09 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>never said he was a hobbit, said he was a man</div>

 #47991  by Tessian
 Fri Dec 21, 2001 3:12 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>lol, I liked Tom.. good thing about Legolas though :)</div>

 #47993  by G-man Joe
 Fri Dec 21, 2001 6:29 pm
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Trust me on this, he WAS a Hobbit once.</div>
 #47997  by kali o.
 Sat Dec 22, 2001 6:35 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Blah....it was ok.

But it fucking dragged, and dragged...(just like the first book). Made those 3 hours seem like 6....

Hopefully, the next two movies keep the pace up a little better...

And why is everybody saying the fight scenes are so great? Outside of the the Cave Orc and the Cap, they pretty much sucked (so the could retain that "PG" rating)....

KO-</div>

 #47998  by Tessian
 Sun Dec 23, 2001 1:22 am
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>For one thing, it was PG-13.. it's good that it felt like 6 hours, I loved it.. didn't seem to drag either. And I didn't cry, bastard :)</div>

 #48015  by Judgment 1999
 Tue Dec 25, 2001 12:42 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I've never read the book actually. :P Probably the only person here who hasn't.</div>

 #48016  by M'k'n'zy
 Tue Dec 25, 2001 1:38 am
<div style='font: 9pt "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>My only dissapointment was to not see Tom Bombadil. I was looking forward to seeing how they portrayed him</div>

 #48019  by G-man Joe
 Tue Dec 25, 2001 8:46 am
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>He had very little influence in the book. It would have made an already long movie longer.</div>

 #48022  by Blotus
 Tue Dec 25, 2001 12:57 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I haven't either.</div>

 #48023  by Blotus
 Tue Dec 25, 2001 12:59 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I finally saw Unbreakable... I don't know HOW you cried at that =)</div>

 #48030  by New and Improved Zeus
 Wed Dec 26, 2001 1:06 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>But hopefully he appears in some deleted scenes on the DVd</div>

 #48031  by New and Improved Zeus
 Wed Dec 26, 2001 1:13 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>A lot of the Tolkien artists that created the MANY pictures you see all over the place (included some releases of the novels) helped create the look of the movie. That's why nearly everything in the film looks so much like those pictures we see, particularly Balrog, The Shire, and Rivendale</div>

 #48033  by Kupek
 Wed Dec 26, 2001 2:57 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That was no PG movie. That movie would have scared me at eight-years-old.</div>