The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)'s comments - page 2

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Watched the extended cut on blu ray today. Looks and sounds amazing! But the movie is my least favorite of the 3. First part drags, second part picks up the pace and is more fun. ok movie but it gets better :-)

11 years 2 months ago

Timec

Also recommended for carljbachus: Satantango, The Best of Youth, The Human Condition, and all three Heimat films.

12 years 3 months ago

Big A2

@carljbachus: Bah! Try Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, or hell, maybe the 5 1/2 hour "1900" is more up your alley.

12 years 3 months ago

phoenixrising

Beautiful, and probably the best of the triology.

12 years 9 months ago

SineJosepha

To Brian_Fuller: If you want to criticise, please get your basic facts straight. His name is Tolkien not Tolkein. It's pretty narrow-minded to "outdate" the pace and topics of the book(s) considering when they were written. Furthermore, it is bound to the fairy tale traditions so therefor has a "classic" build-up - as it should have.
It might not be as fast-forward as the some of the latest fairy tales, but do you really want more movies like In The Name of The King?
The industri vs. the nature isnt updated perhaps? Isengard was crushed by forces of nature. This could easily be seen as the enviromental debates at the moment.

As you said yourself, Tolkien is considered the "founder" of this fantasy world-maker and I think you'd agree on Lord of The Rings is a masterpiece as well. So does this mean you'd write off anything of Sheakespear just because it's written so long ago? He wrote about what was current at his time - Tolkien did so too in his own way.

12 years 11 months ago

ceejaybac

Long ass movie. It's good, just long as hell.

14 years ago

stellaslove

Definitely over-rated.. but then I didnt like the book either - which makes me one very few, i know - I just don't find the characters to be endearing or interesting at all - i feel nothing toward them. I havent seen the next two, but i might try and watch them one day to see if they are better...

14 years 5 months ago

Hadis

Haha, you made me laugh squeamish.

14 years 6 months ago

piet

@bart You must be really tired after seeing it as one movie :)

14 years 7 months ago

Malandabslov

Every Lord of the Rings films is overlong but they are so beautiful.

7 years 9 months ago

CarpFace

I swear it was 'Shall not pass!'

12 years 4 months ago

EGM360

It's: "You shall not pass!"

12 years 4 months ago

brian_fuller

Tolkein is, admittedly, the gold-standard of fantasy world-makers, but his plotting is fairly weak and predictably linear. Fortunately, that's a pretty perfect combination for adolescent readers who are weaning themselves of childhood fiction. Tolkein gives twelve-year-olds (the age at which many fans first visit Middle Earth) the complexity of detailed settings without demanding too much in the way of parallel storylines. The triumph of friendship over greed and moral right over military might are conservative themes as easily grasped as the story's sparse plot lines. When Tolkein's young readers grow up, they no doubt take with them a fondness for these tales, even though they graduate to far more complicated narratives. Peter Jackson's films awaken that nostalgic warmth -- with all its benefits and shortcomings. Honestly: ring here, volcano there. Nine hours in between?

13 years 7 months ago

squeamish movie lover

I find it overrated. Jackson's King Kong is far better.

14 years 6 months ago