The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

sweetheart wrote:

i 'am a singal mother love to watch movie and go danceing . i'am a good women that love to cook and cleans. and like to take care her kids. i do not smoke.

markus wrote:

I stoped the dang thing after the first 5 minutes

Nghia L wrote:

My favorite out of the LOTR trilogy. I was always more of a sci-fi buff than a fantasy nerd, so I was a little skeptical going into LOTR. Although there was something magical about Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptation that captured my imagination once the title blurb appeared and Cate Blanchett's voiceover began. And then I was in love.

This movie reminds me of playing RPGs, where you start off on a quest and later find yourself recruiting new members. That very same feeling of meeting new, powerful allies enveloped me when the movie really began to take off once they left for Mordor. Since Peter Jackson was a horror director, he manages to project a sense of terror and dread from such an unsuspecting movie, and I loved that quality about it.
It does lack the sheer epic feel of the next two installments, but it makes up for it in its complexity.   [ show more ]

I like how in this movie the black and white distinctions between the heroes and villains are not as clean-cut as the following movies. The heroes could very well become villains once they were tempted by the ring, so nobody was inherently good or bad, just corruptible. There were grey characters like Boromir and some racial tension between Gimli and Legolas. The following movies had a more clearer distinction overall, but the first movie had that darker quality that evil was pervading and that was a little more parallel to reality than the other two movies.

An exceptional film, and the greatest trilogy out there, barely trumping Star Wars, the LOTR is a masterpiece in its own grand scheme of things. [ show less ]