Author Topic: Has anyone seen Lord of The Rings? (Read 2790 times)

Animal · « **on:** December 19, 2001, 11:32:00 PM »

I'm going tomorrow; cant wait.
All the critics are wild about it, and I love the subject.

Bluefish · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2001, 11:40:00 PM »

Haven't seen such uniformly glowing reviews of a movie since the first Godfather; chomping at the bit to go!!!!!!!!

Animal · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2001, 11:44:00 PM »

cc thanks, ditto on the reviews, this trilogy will beat Star Wars I hope.

By the way, I gave you a 1 star rating.

moose · « **Reply #3 on:** December 19, 2001, 11:47:00 PM »

not yet

i hope i get a chance in the next couple days to go though

SOB · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2001, 01:14:00 AM »

Went today, first showing of the day at the local theatre. Sold out for all showings. Gonna wait until January when things have died down a bit and the kiddies have to go back to school. Looking forward to it!

SOB

BTW...I gave Bluefish one star as well.

StSanta · « **Reply #5 on:** December 20, 2001, 03:06:00 AM »

Heh, same SOB. Tried getting a ticket for three days now, no luck.

Am thinking I should marry into the royal family: they get the finest seats on such premieres.

That'd mean fighting myself though, as I am a republican. Man, that WOULD be fun.

Nifty · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2001, 08:13:00 AM »

I saw it yesterday afternoon.

It's pretty faithful to the book Fellowship of the Ring, only a few things here and there. I haven't read Twin Towers yet, so I'm not sure how much they borrowed from that and put into Fellowship, because there are a few things in the movie I don't remember from the first book, but I've heard of them before.

I still can't get over Agent Smith as Elrond though.

I just was waiting for him to say "Do you hear that, Mr Baggins? That is the sound of inevitibility."

aknimitz · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2001, 08:21:00 AM »

Hehe Nifty...The dude from the Matrix is Stryder? hehe

Nim

Superfly · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2001, 08:35:00 AM »

An incredible movie all around.

Curval · « **Reply #9 on:** December 20, 2001, 08:35:00 AM »

Haven't seen it yet...probably take three months to get here....

I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't start the story with "The Hobbit". While it was aimed more at younger readers it does start the story properly.....

Nifty · « **Reply #10 on:** December 20, 2001, 10:27:00 AM »

We discussed that on the way home, why they didn't start with the Hobbit. We decided that since The Hobbit was more of a children's book, the animated movie is more than sufficient to tell the story. The movie is actually pretty good as well.

Nim, he was Elrond. I'm not sure who played Aragorn/Stryder, I didn't recognize him.

Karnak · « **Reply #11 on:** December 20, 2001, 11:04:00 AM »

It ended pretty much exactly where the book did.

I had some quibbles with certain things, and yes Elrond was hard to see past Mr. Smith sometimes, but overall very good.

Curval · « **Reply #12 on:** December 20, 2001, 11:21:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Nifty:
We discussed that on the way home, why they didn't start with the Hobbit. We decided that since The Hobbit was more of a children's book, the animated movie is more than sufficient to tell the story. The movie is actually pretty good as well.

The animated movie was made by a guy who lives here...Arthur Rankin...he does alot of animated stuff (mostly for kids...Between the Lions, [PBS]....Arthur..etc). While I am very proud of the fact that he is from Bermuda...I was appalled at the animated version of the Hobbit...so much so that I couldn't watch it! Gandalf's voice was sooo bad.

Sandman · « **Reply #13 on:** December 20, 2001, 11:32:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Nifty:

Nim, he was Elrond. I'm not sure who played Aragorn/Stryder, I didn't recognize him.

Aragorn is played by Vigo Mortensen. I haven't seen the movie yet, but his past work makes me believe he was a good choice for the part.

Vulcan · « **Reply #14 on:** December 20, 2001, 08:30:00 PM »

Saw the movie last night (in Peter Jacksons favourite movie theatre

), loved it... even recognised half the locations heh - damn I miss the South Island.

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