the lord of the rings

[neo]

ok i'll try to do a review wihtout any spoilers:
The first thing that i thought in the beginning of the film was wow!!!!!That's something that i had the whole movie.The environment kept amazing me and also all the characters from the book were cool to see.In the beginning of the film the history of the film is made clear to people who haven't read tolkiens books.Once you get that the adventure begins.Slowly one you get to know more about the characters.elijah wood is good as frodo,very convincing.The other members of the cast are also great.It looked like the story was written for the cast.The movie is very dark,but it's good to see that the hobbites of the fellowship make sure that sometimes you can laugh.Funny to see that the ''normal'' people make kind of funof the hobbits in different ways.The action scenes were truly amazing,but sometimes i thought that the action was too fast.The sword scenes were cool,but as a watche ri almost couldn't kep up with the action.I heard a lot of crtitique on the story and shit that peter jackson focuced on the sfx and not on the story.But you really see good character development and the story w\is very very good written as a screenplay.I never have read the books (maybe i will in the future)but i thougt that cate blanchet and liv tyler were too short in the movie.The music score by howard shore really fits with the legend and i think he did a great job.But peter jackson did in my point of view the best job.directing such as huge project and stay faitful to the book.I think that he will please most of the fans of tolkien.Look at the rating at us.imdb.that's a very good rating.i wonder what the rating will be in a couple of weeks.i really hope that the rating not goes down,cz i really think that's what the movie deserves.i would give this fantastic film 10/10

[FlickJunkie]

You could have just edited the other one... But, it's good that you wrote a spoiler free one because what's the point of tryin to tell people what you thought about it if no one's going to read it?

Of course, I still didn't read this one because even though I'm not a LOTRs fanatic, I'll still check it out...

[Tuukka]

Ok, here is a suggestion from me:

Since many of us are going to post reviews of LOTR in the current movie forum, I think we should post them all under this Neo's topic, to prevent the appearance of multiple LOTR talkbacks. I will be seeing the film on 20th of december, and I will post my long, detailed review the following day. If some people are going to post reviews before that, please post them in this topic as well.

[Tuukka]

BTW Neo, I have a couple of questions. There are no real spoilers in these.

1. Did you ever had difficulties in following the film, since it has so much characters, details and references to different events.

2. The film has a leisurely pace at times, did it drag in your opinion at points?

3. The film ends with a very open note, just like the book. There is no real conclusion. Did the low-key cliffhanger ending feel disappointing to you?


[This message has been edited by Tuukka (edited 12-12-2001).]

[neo]

1. I didnt really have problems with following the story.I knew some characters all ready from internet sites.If someone knows nothing about the story it also shloudn;'t be a big roblem cuz you don;t get to know a new character every 5 mintes.Slowly on you get to know new characters.only when the fellowship get to the elfworld there are a couple of new characters introduced.

2.No not at all.It's just a strong thing of this movie that it has a leisurly pace.

3. 10 minutes for the end of the movie there is a bit of spectaculair scene with a very cool action scene.after that the movie has a cliffhangar that made me wonder:What will come next? Is he going to make it? what kind of danger will he cross on his journey.so it didn't disappoint me at all.maybe people who don't know that there will be 2 movies that continue with the story,will be disappointed,cuz they like to see a film end with a big bang or some spectaculair.