The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Reviews
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With its spectacular scenery, stupefying effects and epic scope, is a dream come true.
Read the full reviewFashioned by a buff, The Lord of the Rings is a banquet for the buff in us all. I left exhausted, happy, intoxicated.
Read the full reviewFellowship is the real deal, a movie epic that pops your eyes out, piles on thrills and fun, and yet stays intimately attuned to character.
Read the full reviewVibrantly, intricately alive on its own terms. This is what magic the movies can conjure with an inspired fellowship in charge, and unlimited pots of gold.
Read the full reviewGets it right. It's a wonderful movie. Watching it, one can't help but get the impression that everyone involved was steeped in Tolkien's work, loved the book, treasured it and took care not to break a cherished thing in it.
Read the full reviewMade with intelligence, imagination, passion and skill, propulsively paced and shot through with an aged-in-oak sense of wonder, the trilogy's first film so thrillingly catches us up in its sweeping story that nothing matters but the vivid and compelling events unfolding on the screen.
Read the full reviewThe playful spookiness of Mr. Jackson's direction provides a lively, light touch, a gesture that doesn't normally come to mind when Tolkien's name is mentioned.
Read the full reviewLooks to please the book's legions of fans with its imaginatively scrupulous rendering of the tome's characters and worlds on the screen, as well as the uninitiated with its uninterrupted flow of incident and spectacle.
Read the full reviewRings has moments of edge-of-the-seat excitement, too, such as when the dark riders come looking for Frodo. But it's occasionally tedious when it should be captivating.
Read the full reviewThat it transcends this genre -- that it is a well-crafted and sometimes stirring adventure -- is to its credit. But a true visualization of Tolkien's Middle-earth it is not.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 92
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A Visionary Masterpiece...the Way Movies are Meant to Be
"There are times during the film where you catch yourself on the edge of your seat, where you find your breath still caught in your throat, where your vision swims before you realize that those are tears falling down your face. It is Middle-Earth reaching out to you from a screen. And even though you are safely on the other side, you still feel as if the battle is yours to uphold.Now, don't misunderstand me. I always point to the book before I point to the television, to the written word before the box.But all these ideas are pushed aside when Peter Jackson's masterpiece The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring comes on screen. The music, beautiful and intoxicating, spins you first, thrusting you effortlessly and carefully into this world you thought could never exist. And then, a voice (it is hard to recognize Cate Blanchett) rises out of the darkness, as seemingly timeless and wonderful as the voice of an elf should be. Hardly two minutes have gone by, and already I am lost in this world before me.And surely, that is how fantasy movies are supposed to be: gripping and believable on a dreamlike scale. But LOTR steps well beyond that; it gives its audience a depth and a maturity as only a visionary can. And being one who has read the novels enough to quote them, I felt even more enmeshed in this world I had come to love.And, amazing yet, it is still only a film adaptation.It sits proudly in my shelves, easily the greatest of all that are assembled there."
REVIEW LORD
"THE BEST MOVIE YOU WILL EVER SEE, IF YOU LIKE FANTASY YOU WILL DEFINITLY WANT TO SEE THIS FILM. IT IS OSCAR QUALITY."
Amazing
"FotR takes the time to develop the characters, as well as define a colorful, sweeping landscape that sets the stage for the other two films. It has a little bit of everything from the entire trilogy, without too much blood, which would have dulled the edge too early."
Most awesome movie ever!
"FotR is an awesome movie because it not only gives you the sense of the landscape of Middle Earth but it also gives you a glimpse into the lives of the different races, something that I think the other films didn't have the chance to do completely."
Very good
"Theese movies are very good, and they capture how actions in the middle ages could have been like, the creatures are phenominal, and everything is great, two thumbs way up!"
This movie is NOT scary
""I LOVE THIS MOVIE! It's narly! It's a classic that everybody should see. (No matter how scary some people might think it is.)"
I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS
"I love it!lord of the rings rocks, it is the best movie ever!so I am giving it a five star rating."
Different but the same.
"I loved this album. It took what you knew and added some new to it. After a series of cds it's hard to find a sequel that doesn't do as good as the ones before or sound as good for that matter. I rate it 5stars."
Start To A Powerful Trilogy
"This is a movie many have waited for, and it has been well worth it. There's plenty of action, a story and even a bit of emotion. This movie is epic in just about everyway."
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