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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - 15 Years Later
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honestrade
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My favorite of the series and one of my favorite movies. Didn't like it on first watch though - fell asleep in the theater. The extended edition is the best.
Hippopuncher12
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Movie is incredible...can't believe it has been 15 years.......
Fancy Clown
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Not only is Boromir a good character on his own, but he also deepens Aragorn's character substantially by representing all the best and worst aspects of man--thus externalizing Aragorn's internal struggle. So when Boromir redeems himself, this restores Aragorn's faith in man and causes him to embrace his destiny as king of Gondor.
¡HarlequinPanic!
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The last fifteen minutes of this film hits me right in the feels every time I see it, without fail. So touching while being so understated and uncertain.
John Kowalski
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Boromir ;_;7
NealMcCauley
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He was more making fun of the Sorcerer's Stone movie (he hated it). I remember Fox had a special on FOTR before it came out and he kept prodding me saying how much better it looked than HPatSS.
The Lamonster
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same. Saw this in the theater, had no idea what to expect, didn't read the books or anything.
BLOWN. AWAY.
We watch the extended trilogy almost every year.
Hexxen-Panda
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I think while FOTR was only partially done on a 2k DI, the next 2 films were completely processed through a 2k DI, so I think a 4k blu-ray version would at best be an upscale+HDR.
I remember Jackson saying on a Comic-con that a 4k remaster of LOTR would have to involve digging up the original film material from a vault somewhere, and would cost a lot of money. Something about inserting Martin Freeman into the FOTR prologue?
SW prequel trilogy type of turd? (I havent seen the Hobbit trilogy)
TTT and RotK didn't have the motherfucking Balrog. The moment when the drums kicks in up until the Balrog fight. EPIC.What?!
I honestly think all three are master pieces/some of the best films ever made. Just a shame they didn't delay the hobbit so that Jackson had time to do it his way
He really didn't want to do the Hobbit films, and it shows. I think if WB gave him more prep time, they would have turned out a bit better. As it is, he had about a month to keep or rework the stuff left behind by del Toro before filming the first movie.
Which movie is my favourite changes all the time. After I saw the fully extended versions I can't go back to the theatricals. There's the odd little bit here and there but there's very little I'd leave out.
I'm a die hard star wars fan but in all honesty it may be my favourite trilogy of all time. So glad I was able to see it in cinemas, surprised the independent one near me isn't doing a showing for the anniversary, though they're pretty busy at this time of year.
I'm a die hard star wars fan but in all honesty it may be my favourite trilogy of all time. So glad I was able to see it in cinemas, surprised the independent one near me isn't doing a showing for the anniversary, though they're pretty busy at this time of year.
Fancy Clown
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Not as bad, but it's a pretty similar disappointing fall from grace and mirrors a lot of the same issues.
Anyone else try to collect all the Burger King toys back then? XD They were surprisingly cool. If you collected them all they formed a giant circle with a flaming One Ring in the center. Pushing the "ring button" on the bases for each figure would make them say a quote from the film.
Bad CGI im assuming?
Hardly, they're more a huge waste of potential than bad movies.
you're absolutely right. IIRC, Aragorn didn't really have an internal conflict in the books, he already knew he was the rightful heir and he just wanted to fulfill his destiny. You can correct me if I'm wrong, though.
TTT did
overreliance on CGI instead of practical effects, storyline bloat, pacing issues. As much as people hate them, though, I still like them. I'm too much of a fanboy to hate them, though I understand why they are criticized.
Plus, every actor's performance in the Hobbit movies is better than the ones in the SW prequels.
TTT did. Those flashbacks were ace.
Yup. Almost 15 years later and it's still the standard I hold all castle/fort sieges to. Fucking perfect; everything from the buildup to the battle and the aftermath, the helplessness of it all. Sooo good.
Also contains a top 5 scene from the series for me.
It's way different from the book, but I don't care, it's sooooooo fucking amazing.
Fancy Clown
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Over abundance of bad cgi, terrible editing withtons of pointless and poorly written story lines, a weird mix of stupid goofy tone and gloomy callbacks to tie into the later movies, overlong run times...there are a lot of issues. But again, I'd rather watch the Hobbit movies any day over the Star Wars prequels.
maquiladora
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15 years...fuck me.
Seeing this on the big screen really felt like my generation's Star Wars moment. Pretty much everything about it was perfect. And though I love TTT and ROTK and enjoyed the Hobbit movies....none of them come close to Fellowship. A very special film.
Seeing this on the big screen really felt like my generation's Star Wars moment. Pretty much everything about it was perfect. And though I love TTT and ROTK and enjoyed the Hobbit movies....none of them come close to Fellowship. A very special film.
Th3BranMan92
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With special edition CGI Jabba.
It's a valid comparison... I mean the Hobbit movies are still better made than any of the prequels, but yeah.
rootbeerafloat
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The theatrical cut is pretty much a perfect movie. I probably saw it at least five times in the theater. The extended cut and the sequels are fine, but they're just too long.
Gandalf and the Balrog fighting midair while tumbling down perpetually doesn't count.
Fancy Clown
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I haven't read the books so I wouldn't know haha. Planning on going through them soon though, after I watch the other extended editions.
Anyone else try to collect all the Burger King toys back then? XD They were surprisingly cool. If you collected them all they formed a giant circle with a flaming One Ring in the center (pushing the "ring button" on the bases would make them say a quote from the film).
I had the Lurtz figure. I got it on vacation and when I was going through airport security heading home they stopped me and searched my backpack because they thought the stand was a knife or something, lol.
Killer Queen
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I dunno, I can only take two very old men magically throwing eachother around and literally spinning on the floor so seriously. It's almost so bad its good level. Almost.
As for other things I didn't like, I think the decision to remove the scouring of the shire was poor along with what he did to the Nazgul. I can understand the removal of the Barrow Wight section (Though I would've loved to have it in) and I can understand why he did it, but I feel that its really that section of the book that adds a lot of mystery and tension to their journey and even a horror aspect. Being constantly pursued and watched by supernatural dark forces, having them only a few steps behind you and potentially lurking around every corner. In the movie they're really just, some dudes on horses, they're not scary and they never really do all that much and for such a major aspect of the first book it was incredibly disappointing to me to have them regulated to a minor and much less dangerous role.
I can do without Tom Bombadil and I can do without the Barrow Wight but the removal of the scouring of the shire and the toning down of the Nazgul keeps me from loving this movie and I feel if there was anything he should've or could've shortened or removed to make time for those sections it could've been Lothlorien.
I think the Mines of Moria was done incredibly well though.
As for The Two Towers and ROTK I haven't finished those books yet (About a quarter through the former) and I'm waiting till I finish them before watching their respective movies so I can't really comment on either.
hahahaha, disregard that, then. The books are great, though they can be really dry for a lot of people (Tolkien really liked to describe landscapes in detail, as much as George R.R. Martin likes to describe food
) and there's a lot of places/characters/events that didn't survive the adaptation - but still, they're incredibly rich. You're in for a treat It holds up a hell of a lot better than the other CG troll that hit cinemas that year:
Back-In-Black
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Are you implying they aren't all just one LONG movie?
They also fought on the mountain. Gandalf smote his ruin upon the mountainside. Fuck yeah.
This is the correct way to view LOTR.
Killer Queen
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Back-In-Black
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Eh, I found Boromir even more compelling in the books. He's such a noble, honorable guy you really get the sense he bears the weight of all of Gondor on his back.
Don't read the book then.
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My favourite movies of all time, had a huge impact on 11-13 year old me as did the books before that. As I've matured and expanded my appreciation of cinema, Fellowship holds up not only as a great adventure movie, but amongst the classics as well.
The effort and passion put into these films is unparalleled and is sorely missing from essentially ever fantasy film since.
The effort and passion put into these films is unparalleled and is sorely missing from essentially ever fantasy film since.
That's another thing I didn't get. How can there be mountains and shit when they should be near the core of the Earth the way they keep falling down?
Well he also got Anduril by the time he went to Lothlorien, so he'd pretty much already accepted his path in the books pretty early on. And in Helms Deep when he steps out and taunts all the Uruks by going "LOOK WHAT I GOT MOTHERFUCKERS! YEAHHHH YOU'RE PISSIN YOUR PANTS NOW HUH?!"
For the most part, the movies did a better job of making some of the conflicts more engaging. Faramir being totally cool with the Ring in the books never jived with me, so him overcoming his temptation where his brother failed was far more interesting.
The only issues I had were turning Legolas into a fucking super-elf in Two Towers and Return of the King, Aragorn being the center of everything on that side of the story (he's the one who falls down the chasm and everyone is sad is dead, he's the one who sees the army even if Legolas has super-vision, he's the one who sees the beacons being lit), and Gimli being turned into a total joke in Two Towers and ROTK
Their fight was so epic and long it took them from the lowest depths of the earth to the very peaks.
I remember seeing LOTR and didn't really want to. I had no knowledge of the books but I'd read the hobbit a bit, hearing names like Gandalf and Bilbo was weird cos I knew them from somewhere.
Now LOTR is probably the most defining piece of media for my life. Once bumped into Andy serkis at a forbidden planet and couldn't stop gushing about what the films meant to me.
Now LOTR is probably the most defining piece of media for my life. Once bumped into Andy serkis at a forbidden planet and couldn't stop gushing about what the films meant to me.
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