Who going to see LOTR?

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 ???

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.

After reading the books I think its a must see

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.

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.

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

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.

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?  

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

[Evi]

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.