Fellowship of the Ring (filmfreak review)

filmfreakcentral.com ^ | 12/6/2001

[ecurbh]

Even given its occasional miscue, The Fellowship of the Ring is an unqualified triumph, its status as the best Western fantasy film ever made all but indisputable.

I'm trying to remain calm, but at the rate these good reviews are coming in, I don't think I can handle it.

[jrherreid]

I feel the madness creeping upon me.

MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR! MUST SEE LOTR!

phew.... *hack* ...whoo

[HairOfTheDog]

I am really excited and scared about this.... I read and re-read the books many many times at different points in my life, and I am excited to see it, but a little afraid my own images of these characters and events are too entrenched to be open to another's interpretation.

This review is sure encouraging though!!!

[valhallasone]

I can't handle the wait. This is the one and only movie that I have ever obsessed about this much. It is the one and only movie (well it will be the first of three) where I have bought tickets in advance to the very first available showing. I figure I can't lose expectations-wise, since all I ask of it is to be better than Bakshi's. If it is as good as the rest of the reviews say, it will be only the third movie that I see twice in the theater and maybe the only move I have seen three times in a theater.

This is as bad as waiting for Christmas as a kid.

[HairOfTheDog]

Ping!

[RosieCotton]

You know, looking at the pictures I've seen so far, there's one thing that really bugs me. The visuals seem excellent, but what the heck is with the pointy ears on the hobbits? Who came up with that?? Granted, it's a small quibble, but I still think it's stupid.

[shaggy eel]

ping

[billbears]

This is as bad as waiting for Christmas as a kid.

Oh, no it's much, much worse. Because Christmas comes every year and I've been waiting 24 years for this movie to come out.

[ObfusGate]

Frodo Lives!

[HairOfTheDog]

They did have big pointy ears.... check your book... I am trying to find mine now.

[jrherreid]

Dunno about you, but I've been following this movie ever since they first put up a website. (before that, actually...)

[Buggman]

Happy day! My request for vacation on the release date was granted!

Yours in Truth,

[HairOfTheDog]

And I thought I was too old to camp overnight for an event....

[jrherreid]

Tolkien doesn't say that they have pointy ears. In fact, his drawings of Bilbo show his ears to be small and kind of round.

[egarvue]

What the heck, don't remain calm - I haven't! :-) Side note: has anyone noticed the remarkable similarity between this image of Ian Holm playing Bilbo and the real J.R.R. Tolkien? I wonder if that's on purpose....

[RosieCotton]

They did have big pointy ears.... check your book... I am trying to find mine now.

Hmm. Well, if you find anything about that, I stand corrected. But I don't remember anything about that in the books. They're short, have curly hair and hairy feet, but I don't remember anything about big pointy ears.

I guess a lot of us have slightly different pictures in our heads of what a hobbit (and all the other characters) should look like...one of the perils of making a movie about such a well-loved book is that people have been playing their own version of a movie in their heads for so long that no movie is going to get everything right in everyone's opinion.

[austinTparty]

This is the one film I would literally wait hours in line to see... I CAN'T WAIT!!!

[DoctorMichael]

I too am waiting in anticipation, and this incredibly positive review only increases that anticipation, but...........

But even better than Jackson's visionary re-imagining of Tolkien's battles is his expulsion of the British theologian's subterranean religiosity and subtext of virulent racism.

Huh????????????????????????????????????? Why do I immediately have a visceral need to vomit?

[AppyPappy]

The Beauty and the Beast writing team

[thurules]

I'm glad someone else caught that! "Virulent racism"????
He must be referring to the Ents.LOL