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post #1 of 34
12/18/01 at 12:59pm
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Is anyone else going to see the first show tommorrow? I am going at 10 am with a couple friends who took the day off from work.
post #2 of 34
12/18/01 at 1:41pm
Absolutely I'm going to the first show here too! Nothing could keep me away. I've been a fan since 5th grade.

it's great being self employed.
post #3 of 34
12/18/01 at 5:27pm
Dh and I are losing our minds over this! All his mates from work are ditching out early to go. We want to but we aren't sure about bringing our toddler. If we don't manage it somehow this week we will be visiting my sisters in San Diego starting Saturday and they will fight over a chance to get spend some quality time with their niece, so it shouldn't be too long in any case. Been waiting for this movie for about twenty five years!
post #4 of 34
12/19/01 at 10:58pm
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I thought it was very well done but way scary!!! How bout everyone else?
post #5 of 34
12/20/01 at 1:06am
I thought it was fantastic! Just like the book. Boy this took me way back.

I can't wait for the next ones.

I thought the movie had just the right pace. It had spurts of action followed by good dramatic scenes as well. Good style to it.
post #6 of 34
12/20/01 at 2:57am

Stunning!

I have NEVER said this before, being a big book-vs-movie snob, but I think that I'll actually enjoy my next reread MORE as a result of seeing this flick. It was wonderful. The cinemetography was amazing, the pace was fast but not rushed, New Zealand is BEAUTIFUL, and I want a hobbithole of my own to live in! Not only that, but it was really true to the book -- I went with a herd of Tolkien geeks, and even they couldn't find fault. (ok, a couple of teeny details that weren't crucial, and I'm sorry they left out the whole Meeting Tom & Willow story.)

I'm just ticked that I'll have to wait a year for the next one!

btw, am I the only one excited about a trailer I saw? Spidey's coming to the big screen!!! WOO!

Yeah, I got my nerd card, right here. That's right.
post #7 of 34
12/20/01 at 1:43pm
Pallas, we didn't get the Spidey trailor though I am dying to see that too!!

We did get the Star Wars Clone Wars trailor and that was awesome. I love the clothes they put Natalie Portman in.

Regarding LOTR, I was so glad they stuck to the book. And like you said, fast paced but not rushed. It was awesome!

My friends are going to see it at the Mann Chinese Theatre on Friday. I couldn't decide if I wanted to go with them since it's going to be a two hour wait in line plus 3 hours in the movie too. But it would be awesome to see it on one of the best movie screens in the world.
post #8 of 34
12/20/01 at 6:55pm
Loved it! Can't wait to see it again, with my husband rather than at back to back showings, which was our solution to the lack of childcare. the beautiful parts were so beautiful, the terrible parts so horrible, the tone and feel was amazing.

The worst part for me was offscreen. Way too many young kids in the theater. NOT a kids movie at all! And to make it worse, we had a trailer for 'Queen of the Damned' a new vampire Lestat movie that was just horrific, and through the whole bloody, loud ugly thing I was just hyper-aware of the six year old girl behind me.
post #9 of 34
12/21/01 at 3:59pm
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!Q

Yeah ther were a ton of kids at the showing I went to as well. So sad...Even a little girl, maybe 3 who was screaming at the really scarry parts. I am sure she hasn't slept well since that day.

I have been stoked about Spiderman for about a year now when I heard Toby McGuire was to play him! He rules on so many levels
post #10 of 34
12/21/01 at 10:26pm
I am a huge Toby Maguire fan too, Bathrobe Goddess! He's awesome. A great actor.

I am having a hard time imagining him as Spidey, but I think he'll do it justice.
post #11 of 34
12/28/01 at 10:31am
I just saw the movie last night. I loved it. I've read the books so many times. I was worried that the movie would take itself too seriously and leave out the humor of the books, but that didn't happen. Merry and Pippin provide great comic relief and the other characters have a sense of humor too. I think an R rating for violence may have been better. It's not gory horror movie violence, but it is really scary. Not for young children.
post #12 of 34
1/3/02 at 6:32am
Loved it LOved it Loved it!! If i'm not mistaken the director peter jackson is the same guy who did Army of darkness..any horror movie fans out there? he must have loved doing this movie and doing it so well. and having a large budget too! He definately kept it dark and tolkien would be proud. I only know of one person who didn't like it. He said too much fighting, but you know what he never read any of the books! amazing.... can't wait a whole year....
post #13 of 34
1/3/02 at 7:51am

Only bummed I had to see it alone

Saw LOTR on Day 2... in our usual fashion—we go separately to the first morning matinee we can get to (not much cash for such ventures, limited to no access to sitters). I LOVED it! It's been 17 or 18 years since I'd read the trilogy and Simarrilion (sp?) and other Tolkien books. I hadn't remembered so much until I saw the film and I was scared, excited, frightened, enthralled, awestruck, moved, and inspired to find my copies and read them again.

I was scared.... frequently and I knew the general storyline from the books.... My wife was not scared at all (which surprised me; usually she's hiding behind me when we watch stuff at home late a night) and she has never read the books but thought the story was brilliant and can't wait to see the second film. Do we really have to wait another year? Ugh...

New Zealand was breathtaking... boi-oh-boi, do I want to dust off the climbing gear and go down there! Wooohooo!

No kids at the showing I went to. Mine will have to wait for DVD and a few more years under their belts... I'm going to try to see it again... The scale was breathtaking... oh... I just loved it.

Dov
post #14 of 34
1/3/02 at 10:19am

I love Army of Darkness!

I owned it on vhs, and now on dvd, and can quote it ad nauseum. Come get some!

Namaste,

Pallas
who has now revealed herself as a bigger dweeb than you ever thought possible
post #15 of 34
1/3/02 at 1:20pm
I saw it and I should not have gone. I have no stomach for violence and there were WAY too many kids in the theatre (LITTLE kids!!) and I was hyper sensitive to that and couldn't really enjoy the cool parts.

I felt like each scene was more anxiety filled than the next. I actually went home and looked up reviews to see if the violence was mentioned to the extent that I felt it. Almost no reviews said it was going to be that violent. I found one web-site that reviews movies on sexuality, violence and profanity and Lord of the Rings got a 7 out of 10 violence rating. Yep! Too violent for me! I could not belive that people kept their kids in the theatre!!!

The scenery was cool and it was well done, but...
enough said.
post #16 of 34
1/3/02 at 5:52pm

Peter Jackson

Has anyone heard how Peter Jackson got the nod from the estate/family to do the films? I heard a rumor once that Peter Tolan was supposed to write the screenplay but then was declined (or declined?).

Anyway, as a screen/multimedia writing student that sort of thing is interesting to me.

Dov
post #17 of 34
1/3/02 at 6:05pm
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Originally posted by yogamama
I saw it and I should not have gone. I have no stomach for violence and there were WAY too many kids in the theatre (LITTLE kids!!) and I was hyper sensitive to that and couldn't really enjoy the cool parts.
Yogamama,

Come to think of it, I think the violence was what was scaring me so much when I saw it. Maybe it's just too much North American "guy" in me still... but as I watched it on the big screen, I could get into the fight scenes (of which there are a ton) because they weren't real people.... in contrast to how I felt watching Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, etc. I almost couldn't watch them because of the sheer inhumanity of war.

I've been thinking a lot about this kind of thing because of my own exploration of my nonviolence and pacifism and being a male.... having a son, etc. How much is normal primal-hunter-gatherer and how much is leftover, unnecessary, necessary, culturized, choice, etc. As a story writer I think about that all the time now (post 9/11); do I write a tale where the heroine/hero is able to resolve the conflict through active/dynamic nonviolence or do I opt for the normative battle/ordeal, etc.

Whew, got me thinking again... going to see it again on Sunday... I think I'm going to pay attention to that vibe in me and see where it leads... thanks for sharing your experience, really got me thinking.

Dov
post #18 of 34
1/7/02 at 9:55am
I saw it yesterday, and I can't believe I'm the only one who thought this was just another mainstream Hollywood violence/romance/sappy emotions film. Well, like my dh remarked, it IS just a movie for teenagers so I shouldn't have expected much. Dh, who is a cinema graduate - though not a movie snob at all, in the sense that he would never so "no" to a film just because of who directed it or who stars in it - said that besides the ending and the battle scenes, it was pretty good. He thought they could have used the good acting, professionalism of the filming, scenery, etc. to make a more intelligent film. At the end he remarked that the music was very much like in the Titanic - which he saw so he could see what all the hype was about - , you know, the sappy sort of Irish flute music there at the end.

Think I'll stick to my artsy fartsy films!
post #19 of 34
1/7/02 at 5:30pm
My post sounds really snotty. Sorry. Just I was really disappointed in the film.
post #20 of 34
1/8/02 at 1:37am
Elijah Wood was on the late show the other night talking about LOTR and he said that he and the other actors in the film all got tattoos when filming was over. They all got the same thing, a two letter word meaning "nine" in elvish. (Nine members of the Fellowship, get it?) He almost showed it, but it was aparently too low on his abdomen for it to be shown on television - Damn it!!
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