i couldnt help but praise peter jackson's adaptation of the book i love... without losing much of the excitement and mythical qualities of the book, he turns a piece of literary great to an unforgettable film
Plot: Set in mythic pre-historic times, a young hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a magic ring from his elderly cousin Bilbo. Wise to the powers that the magic ring holds, the dark Lord Sauron wants it, k...( read more )nowing it will enable him to enslave the people of Middle Earth. In his effort to thwart Sauron, Frodo recruits the fellowship of a wizard, an elf, a dwarf and others on a mission to destroy the ring by casting it into the volcanic fires in the Crack of Doom. However, the ring unleashes its own power as a result of the struggle....
I enjoyed all of these films a great deal. Yes, there were a few Troyesque moments where you felt like the story was being drawn out for no other reason than to show how beautiful everything is, but I feel that those scenes were a, thankfully, pale shadow of the obtuse and overly descriptive language of the novels. A, blessedly, weak homage to Tolkein's tendency to describe every blade of grass.
Instant classic The movie is the classic story of three hobbits, a dwarf, an elf, two men and a wizard on a quest to save the world from evil. The special effects alone make it worth watching. The story moves along at a quick pace unlike the book that has a tendency to drag along with side stories left out of the movie and a few long poems. When the party finally goes underground the pace picks up a little too much. In the book the orcs are hidden in the darkness just out of reach, a constant danger that never quite catches up with them. In the movie the walls are crawling with orcs. Fortunately the elf has a magic quiver that never runs out of arrows. If this were a game of D&D and I were the dungeon master, I'd be asking to see the character sheet for this elf.
KUDOS TO PETER JACKSON!!
I loved all the lord of the rings trilogy.........
n i'd have to admit the way the movie went on...exactly like it was written frm the book (i've read it) so imagine seeing an epic event dat u've already read and imagined wat i'll be like well it was cool better den xpected!!
Thnk god in the last part (return of the king) Dark lord Sauron finally got wat he deserved!!
It was really hard for frodo to let go of the ring in the end but finally he let it 'free-fall' to the volcanic lava!
many of few who have'nt seen the last part may thinki'm 'weird' this is exactly wat happened!
Stuck close enough to the book and the spirit of the book to entertain and to build the foundation for a most complex and difficult tale in the next two movies that complete the story.
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
This exceeded my expectations I didn't think it would live up to the book but it really did it justice. I think you have to appreciate this movie even if it's not your taste, anyone who has rated this Not Interested should really give it a chance, yup yup yup
♥ love Merry and Pippin ♥
I'm not tempted even toward the word "perfect" frequently. Um... really... really... not... bad... SQUEEE... They didn't screw up the Lord of the Rings.
Exeptional. Rarely have a movie looked this beautiful before and the cast is picture perfect (with the one exception of Liv Taylor who looks like a dressed up human rather than a real mystical being.) Viggo Mortensen was a true last minute luck streak and pretty much all of them seem born to play those characters. A triumph in modern filmmaking.
Just an incredible movie. Beautiful landscapes and slow paced buildup for what is to come as the story unfolds. The wonderful setting and the humoristic way we get to learn the hobbits draws you into Tolkiens wonderful world.
I read these bks in the 80's. After these movies came out, my son Mark wanted to read them & we got them back from my older son so he could enjoy them along w/ the Harry Potter bks he got for Christmas.
Possibly my favourite LOTR... I can never decide between this one and the Two Towers. I love these films - I could say so much about them but there isn't room.
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