You make me want to vomit. How dare you compare this piece of dung to Star Wars. HOW DARE YOU?!
Posted on 12/19/2001 1:22:18 AM PST by Darth Sidious
I love the little touches that added to his Elveness - walking atop the snow drifts - his uncanny speed with his bow - beautiful touches very subtlely rendered.
Good night, friend!;o)
Darth is a real ace at this stuff =^)
I repeat ABSOLUTLY WONDERFUL!!!!
I'll wait for when Gilbert Gottfried shows it on USA UP ALL NIGHT. In the meantime, I'll watch "Cabin Boy" again.
But little elves slashing each other with swords? Nice family entertainment indeed...
Since you didn't actually say those three words, I will...Oh.My.God.
I sat through back-to-back viewings of the movie yesterday. The first was with a group of friends from the office at noon, then I turned around and went right back inside for the 3:45pm show with my wife. I was hoping to be jumping up and down with excitement as I left the theater but I wasn't. Simply put, I was in awe. The film is truly a masterpiece, an epic event in motion picture history. I agree with everything you said, Darth. I never once looked at my watch. The movie never lulled and left me wanting more. Much more.
I'd love to see the director's cut of the movie as I expect it will be over 6 hours long. It was clear they shot a huge amount of scenes and then had a tough time editin the film. Did you notice when they released the pony before entering Moria it was the first time in the movie the pony was even mentioned? Did you catch the stone trolls in the background during the initial scene with Arwen? These are the same trolls (from The Hobbit) Bilbo is talking about with a group of children during his party. Did you catch Legolas twice in a row kills two orcs with a single arrow near the very end of the movie? I caught it during my second viewing. First, he shoots the arrow through two orcs. Next, he stabs a third orc with another arrow, pulls the arrow back out and then shoots it into a fourth orc. Legolas did this with such fluidness I thought the actor had some elf blood in him. Did you notice several chapter titles from the various books were used? I noted "Riddles in the Dark" (from The Hobbit) and "A Long Expected Party" from The Fellowship.
I agree the modifications, additions and deletions to the story were necessary for making the movie and did not in any way detract from the story's overall theme. Having just finished rereading The Fellowship the night before, I was noticing many of the changes in the movie. For example, I don't believe Frodo ever fell backwards and "dropped" the ring during the initial hike up Caradhas in the snow in the book. As another example, the Mirror of Galadrial scene involved both Sam and Frodo. The music was good, just not memorable. I thought during the battle scenes it sounded a little too much like the music from "Last of the Mohicans".
Overall, I give this movie 5 out of 5 stars, 10 out of 10 stars and 99 out of 100 stars (nothing's perfect).
I will be seeing this movie in the theater again.
Well said...hopefully, I'll get to see this movie this evening...if not, this weekend.
FReegards...MUD
I saw the second showing at 10:30 am Wednesday. Took a holiday and went to see what I expected to be one phenomenal film. Instead I was treated to a BLOCK BUSTING EXTRAVAGANZA! This film, by far, is the best I've seen, IMHO (I'm only a little biased)!! I got much more than I expected, and half as much as I will get with the DVD(can't wait)!!hehe
Damn, I was as excited and giddy as a little kid at Christmas with a new train set. The screen adaptation was a masterpiece. The action scenes were intense. The story had a great rhythm. The art and design was fantastic and Middle Earth came alive. Cheers to Peter Jackson, Alan Lee, John Howe and all the cast and crew for bringing the world a visual rendition of the FOTR worthy of Tolkien's epic trilogy. J.R.R would be proud.
Grampa and Gramma will offer to baby sit so my son and his wife can go to see this movie. We will even buy their tickets and give them money for popcorn. This will be an excellent Christmas gift to my son and his wife! We will just have to struggle through with the demanding task of babysitting.
How long is the movie?
Ahhhh... that! Yeah, it was lit properly :-)
Well, it's been 24 hours since we saw it for the 2nd time, and it's still effecting me. There's two people I want to see win Best Actor come March: either Ian McKellan or Christopher Lee... Lee's Saruman is INTENSE!! For a year I've been hankering to see him play Count Dooku in "Star Wars Episode II", but I can't see him topping that, not after his Saruman.
Haven't seen it yet :-( But we did see the new trailer for "Spider-Man" at the midnight showing of FOTR. Looks like they're getting it spot-on 'cept for the organic webshooters :-O Love that line from Aunt May: "you're not Superman" :-)
They also had the trailer for "Austin Powers: Goldmember"... nice to see a stream of New Line trailers with no Freddy Krueger in sight!
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