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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: MaXiMaN on December 11, 2001, 01:38:47 AM
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I\'m a huge fan of Tolkiens books and the first of the 3 films based on these books looks and sounds like nothing before seen! Yes I plan to see it the night it comes out on the 20th!
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Me, on the other hand... have no clue about what your talking about...
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ME ME ME
I\'ll prolly watch it several times (I get to see movies for free otherwise I\'d only watch it once ;)).
*sings*
"I\'m so excited... I just can\'t hide it..."
:D
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more than likely Ill just wait for the DVD anyway. no sense in spending extra money at the theatre if Im going to buy it anyway. Plus me and the gf dont goto movies much anymore. Neither do me and the fella\'s for that fact, usually just racing,bar/club hopping, anything but a movie.
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Lord Of The Rings looks really good at the preview i saw at the theater!!! I\'m definately gonna see this movie.
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I will most likely go see it. What\'s cool is it comes out on my birthday :)
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ahhhhh! Lord of the Rings! I dunno about this one... Id rather go see Behind Enemy Lines.
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The real question is......
how quickly can ooseevn fist fight his way to the frount of the Q to see it. ;)
"out of my way FOOL" ooseven shouts " I MUST SEE LOTR !!!!!!!!!!"
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Yeah I\'m gonna be busy this X-mas break.
I\'m also got tickets to see the Joust at the Excalibur casino. You eat food and watch a medieval jousting tournament, it\'s sweet.
I\'m also gonna see Not another teen movie!!! kool.
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yea my friends and me will most likely go see it together some time
its gonna be awesome - i never read the books but i just love fantasy movies and this one is based on what i have heard to be a great book series - so i cant wait
plus the hype is getting me a little :p
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Yeah, those fantasy movies really make my eyes grow.
Kinda like porn movies make my .............. grow.
I\'m dumb.
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I won\'t miss it for the world. I read the entire trilogy in 15 days while working in Japan. Could not put those books down.
I am going to start reading the 1st book again probably starting tommorow since I have to try and find where I stored it.
Words cannot describe the euphoria I have from hearng lots of positive things aboout the movie from many people who have seen the screening. I don\'t expect a perfect translation cause no movie ever will be, but I expect a movie that will stay true to the wonderful world and story Tolkien has created. Even if his son doesn\'t think so
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Originally posted by ddaryl
I won\'t miss it for the world. I read the entire trilogy in 15 days while working in Japan. Could not put those books down.
I am going to start reading the 1st book again probably starting tommorow since I have to try and find where I stored it.
Words cannot describe the euphoria I have from hearng lots of positive things aboout the movie from many people who have seen the screening. I don\'t expect a perfect translation cause no movie ever will be, but I expect a movie that will stay true to the wonderful world and story Tolkien has created. Even if his son doesn\'t think so
I bet your gonna be those one people who stand outside of the theater for hours dressed up in an elf suit with a stick.
:laughing:
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
I bet your gonna be those one people who stand outside of the theater for hours dressed up in an elf suit with a stick.
:laughing:
Hey thats a great Idea, but I think I\'d make a better Gollum "my precious"
I\'m re-reading the 1st book and I\'m on chapter 5. I just really love those books and I\'ve craved a big budgeted movie depicting them ever since
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I\'ve got my ticket. I\'m going on the 21 of December.
I\'ve got a hard one already
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i\'m on the last few chapters of the 1st book. SO much of it I have forgotten. I\'m glad I decided to read it again before the movie comes out
I\'m stoked.
I have a feeling they are going to show Gandalf adventures that paralled Frodo\'s leaving of the shire instead of the telling of the tale at the councel in Elrond\'s House.
I already heard they left out the part of Tom Bombadill which kind of blows but with the 1st movie pushing close to 3 hours I can kinda see why
Maybe the DVD will have the missing content ???
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Wow, I\'m starting to see some trailers for this film and I\'ve seen some killer special effects. This movie wasn\'t as cheesy as i had first percieved.
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After reading the books I think its a must see
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
Wow, I\'m starting to see some trailers for this film and I\'ve seen some killer special effects. This movie wasn\'t as cheesy as i had first percieved.
The movie is being made with respect of the books
Like any movie based on a great book / books won\'t hold 100% true, but it should prove to be worthy. I\'ve seen a few things in the trailer that look very close to what the book says and a few things that have taken a few liberties as well.
but at 3 hours for the 1st movie they have obviously packed quite a bit in and didn\'t skip much.
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You all might want to take a look at Salon.com\'s review of The Fellowship of the Ring. It absolutely gushes with praise. I\'ve never seen a review this positive on Salon or anywhere else. I didn\'t read the whole thing because I didn\'t want to spoil anything for myself (even though I\'ve read the books three times). I guess I just don\'t want to know too much about someone else\'s opinon, whether it\'s good OR bad.
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/12/18/lord_of_the_rings/index.html
The movie of the year
By Stephanie Zacharek
The most heartbreaking thing about faithful moviegoing is that awe, beauty and excitement, three of the things we go to the movies for, are the very things we\'re cheated of the most. The great wonder of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is that it bathes us in all three, to the point where we remember -- in a vague, pleasurably hallucinatory sensation from another lifetime -- why we go to the movies in the first place. It would be an insult to say the picture merely lives up to its hype; it crashes the meaning of hype, exposing it as the graven image it is. Advertising is dead: Long live moviemaking.
The first 10 minutes of "The Fellowship of the Ring" renders all hype -- whether it\'s the kind that\'s bought and paid for or the kind generated by eager fans -- inconsequential. In adapting the story of hobbit Frodo Baggins and his mission to guard and ultimately destroy a ring that has the power to bring cursed evil upon the world, director Peter Jackson has given us an epic in the true sense, with none of the pretentious fakery that the word "epic" has come to imply.
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Most of us are happy enough these days to go to the movies and not get screwed, so rarely does a movie even keep its promises, much less surpass them. That\'s why "The Fellowship of the Ring" is something of a miracle. It makes the great potentialities of movies seem realistic and achievable. Inventive, magical and relatively inexpensive, it proves that throwing money at a movie doesn\'t necessarily make it good -- an idea that should be much easier for Hollywood to grasp than it actually is.
These we\'re the last lines of that review
After reading the review it dopes seem that there will be quite a few liberties taken in the movies making. Overall though its the experience I am looking ot enjoy
I will see the movie this Sunday
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I know you guys are gonna post about the movie so please remember to put the (Spoiler) warnings... I\'m sure you guys aren\'t that stupid but we\'ve had some morons who don\'t do it.
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
I know you guys are gonna post about the movie so please remember to put the (Spoiler) warnings... I\'m sure you guys aren\'t that stupid but we\'ve had some morons who don\'t do it.
Wait, is there anyone here who HASN\'T read the books? :surprised Do they deserve our respect? :D :D :D
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I was thinking the same thing
but there will be a quite a few small differences and a 1/2 dozen or so major differences in the movies compared to the books
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Me and my friends are gonna have an all-out Tekken 4 Tournament with each other at the mall where I live, and then we\'re going to see the LOTR movie.