Posted on 12/19/2001 5:52:04 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
The movie captures the reality of Tolkien's book quite well, but some small sacrifices had to be made to translate to theater. The evil things are very dark, very evil, very frightening.
Otherwise, I cannot recommend it highly enough!!!
I will definitely see this movie again, maybe several times, while it is in the theaters.
I just read The Fellowship of the Ring again, and I then read it to my 9 year old son. We were both really looking forward to this film.
The evil things, as I said above, are quite frightening (PG-13 rating). This is not a film for children under ten (my mistake, Mikey is nine and it was just too violent.)
That said, I'm awestruck at how faithful to Tolkien's book this film was.
Go see it. It is a treat, especially if you are a Tolkien fan. Don't take young kids though.
great special effects but I'd hit the matinee. You come stumbling out thinking you would not sit through that again.
Starship Trooper was a lot better.
And thus clearly fought for.
LOTR, the soon-to-be biggest film of all time!
Are you NUTS!!!??? "Starship Troopers" was a HORRIBLE movie. Not only that, it completely MISSED the spirit and theme of the Robert Heinlein novel.
your comments here.
Unless, of course, the viewer is in to Tolkien self-absorption "gee will it follow the books exactly 'cause I have read them all a gazillion times". You can hear this type loudly talking the plot and laughing at some hidden dialogue meaning probably talked about ad nauseum in some obscure chat room dedicated to LOR aficionados. But, I could be a little hard on it.
It was too long, it should have been tightened up. If you had no idea where the story was going you'd get lost, perhaps bored on the long road to the poorly foreshadowed "cliffhanger" ending.
I'm not sure about a 'hit with the gay community', certainly I felt the Frodo/Sam relationship had a homosexual flavour to it at the end but I dismissed that as Hobbit behavior and perhaps some Freeper-induced paranoia/oversensitivity to seeing gay anything whether it's there or not. The "Men" were not effeminate in any sense really, not that I noticed. Of course, Bloom, who looked disturbingly like "Doogie Houser", was appropriately "pretty" as the warrior elf.
great special effects but I'd hit the matinee. You come stumbling out thinking you would not sit through that again.
I felt that way but I've been having second thoughts as something were so well done, especially the acting and how seemless the CGI alterations were for the Hobbits, Dwarves and so on.
Starship Trooper was a lot better.
That's a funny (as in "ha, ha") movie with, oddly enough, Doogie Houser. But, admit it, the only reason you liked that better is instead of seeing Frodo's lone, seemingly accidental, nipple flash are the bare breasted women in the co-ed showers.
I expected this type of BS from certain sophomorish creeps here on FR. You do not disappoint. I was reflecting on Tolkien's presentation of non-Eros love, and the film's adaptation of it (which, again, is superb) and I literally thought there will be some small minded people, uncomfortable with a presentation of Agape or true love in the Christian, non-Eros sense, that will try to poke fun at this in the film. You make a fool only of yourself.
Are you NUTS!!!???
Tsk, tsk. Tolkein fans should be better at identifying trolls than this.
I'm not asking to put you on the defensive. I'm genuinely curious. In the theatre where I saw the movie there were others who brought children who looked as young as 7. I was leary of their judgement when I saw that, and my reservation was confirmed several times throughout the film (One little girl somewhere behind me took up an annoying nervous chatter with her parents that lasted virtually the entire film. Of course the parents never got a clue that she was frightened and ought to take her out of a movie not geared toward little girls.).
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