Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Pros: stunning, superb production; near-perfect cast, great effects, lovely score, and above all emotion

Cons: took a little time to get rolling; the female roles were miscast

The Bottom Line: The one movie of the year that you should see. It more than exceeds expectations – I loved it!

Review: I got up out of my seat dizzy. I walked out of the building feeling like I was floating on air. I felt like I had experienced something…holy. Are we talking about a movie here? Yes indeed! We are talking about the much-anticipated, ...

Pros: Everything

Cons: Nothing

The Bottom Line: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was a wonderful beginning to an epic adventure. The Extended Version DVD is worth watching at least once.

Review: I had heard about The Lord of the Rings at different times, but I never really knew what it was about. Then I started to see previews for the movie version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I saw the movie in ...

Pros: when a movie’s this good, it goes beyond pros...

Cons: ...or cons for that matter (although there are a couple)

The Bottom Line: I wasn’t sure if I’d be saying this, but Fellowship of the Ring is just as spectacular, in its own way, on video as it was on the big screen.

Review: What movie less than an epic would make you wait half a year for it to come out on video? I and most of the civilized world have been waiting breathlessly for the most awe-inspiring movie in years to appear in stores, counting the days till August 6th...

Pros: Incredible production values. Actors who look and sound the part.

Cons: A few continuity errors, but other than that...

The Bottom Line: Incredible adaptation of a difficult, involved book. Go see it for the spectacle, and the range of emotions that it conjures. I haven't had this much fun in years.

Review: I approached this film with a great deal of trepidation and dread in my heart. After all, I had read the trilogy about thirty years ago, had devoured The Silmarillion when it finally was in print, and had cried FOUL when that animation version was...

Pros: I dare not give such a small list as will fit here.

Cons: It isn't perfect.

The Bottom Line: Someone took a book and made a movie out of it. What more could you want?

Review:

Warning! This may turn out to be one of the longest reviews I have ever written.
If you only read one review of this movie read something else, this is too long.


I feel that a certain amount of personal commentary is...

Pros: My faith is restored in fantasy movies as I know it can be properly done

Cons: I only saw it twice

The Bottom Line: If you can't appreciate this fine masterpiece for what it is and has accomplished, you better check your pulse again to see if you are alive.

Review: Did you really think I was going to let a little thing called sleep get in my way of watching this movie? If you even have to think about it, then you have more of a brain than I do because I surely wasn't using mine at the time. Then again, when it ...

Pros: great casting, wonderful action, excellent plot, beautiful locations, great soundtrack

Cons: a somewhat unavoidable abrupt ending---otherwise perfection!

The Bottom Line: The perfect book to movie adaptation. Worth watching at least once.

Review: Fellowship of the Ring blew me away. After being hyped up for over a year both on the Internet and on TV spots, I was expecting maybe an over media-blitzed so-so flick, much the way Harry Potter disappointed me. Harry Potter was uninspired and...

Pros: the characters and actors (aside from Arwen); atmosphere

Cons: perhaps too long, dragging in parts; some confusion for people unfamiliar with story

The Bottom Line: If you know and love the book, my bet is you'll love this film. Otherwise, go with your gut instinct.

Review: At this point, I'm beginning to believe in curses--both the gypsy kind and the kind you mutter when annoying bozos refuse to keep to their theater seats during a film. You see, I suffer from the first kind, which makes me prone to the second.
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Pros: Magical, enchanting, captivating!

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Watch it but do not compare it with the book, I mean both the medium are different!

Review: I actually saw this movie a long time back, some time in March 2002. I liked it so much that I actually saw it twice in theatres with my husband. So I would not say that yes, but I will watch it on video!, as epinions suggest. I have actually seen it...

Pros: Peter Jackson's masterful adaptation, fine acting, great effects.

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: It's a masterpiece, pure and simple.

Review: The Fellowship of the Ring, New Zealander Peter Jackson's first installment of three films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, is an entertaining and awe-inspiring movie. With a multi-national cast, majestic landscapes, jaw-dropping special ...