The Fellowship of the Ring has the highest imdb rating of all time.

It's a brilliant film, but I'd say this is going a bit far. It has a number of flaws, like not introducing several of the characters properly and overusing some dramatic effects. It's almost certainly the best film of the year, but ever? Nyeeeh.

Anyway, I just wondered what you lot thought of it.

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The Fellowship of the Ring has the highest imdb rating of all time.

It's a brilliant film, but I'd say this is going a bit far. It has a number of flaws, like not introducing several of the characters properly and overusing some dramatic effects. It's almost certainly the best film of the year, but ever? Nyeeeh.

Anyway, I just wondered what you lot thought of it.

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Havent had a chance to see it yet , as im stuck on the Isle of Man , and theres one showing , daily , at 7pm , and the cinema is 3 miles away , and the buses stop running at 5pm.

So i plan on seeing it when i return on the 27th.

Surprised though. It didnt do nearly as well as anticipated at the box office in the states. Over the Fri-Sun period , it was actually BEATEN by Oceans 11.

Although admittedly , it did open Wed with $17 million.

The highest ever for a midweek open.

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Surprised though. It didnt do nearly as well as anticipated at the box office in the states. Over the Fri-Sun period , it was actually BEATEN by Oceans 11.

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Surprised though. It didnt do nearly as well as anticipated at the box office in the states. Over the Fri-Sun period , it was actually BEATEN by Oceans 11.

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Well, it's been known to be a bit unreliable, but the imdb claims LotR grossed over $30 million more than Ocean's Eleven in the US at the weekend.

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LOTR had the 3rd highest Wednesday opening ever, which is considerable since they haven't been doing Wednesday openings for all that many years.

I may have gone into the movie with my expectations too high. I felt it met my expectations, and did not exceed them. I was a little distracted by the height effects for the hobbits.

In any event, given that I went into it expecting it to be fucking slickass-kickass and it met my expectations, it did ok. Especially considering that the seats we had were in the second row and I could only look at about 1/3 of the screen at any one time, and my back was hurting from slouching down in the seat.

I did find myself MiSTing at a few points, and my boyfriend kicked me. Well, when Gimli pledged his axe to Frodo 3 minutes after busting it to pieces on the ring, I just couldn't keep from whispering a smartassed comment under my breath. You know how it is.

I am very much looking forward to the other two movies.

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I am very much looking forward to the other two movies.

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I think I'll wait for the novelization to come out.

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I think I'll wait for the novelization to come out.

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I think I'll wait for the novelization to come out.

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A whole movie about halflings on an epic quest to destroy an object of great value? I'll probably see something like that for free at the Christmas party if I follow my nephews around long enough.

The books were actually required reading for my entry into the Geekhood. But I think I'll wait for the movies to come out on DVD. Anytime a flick runs over two hours, I like to be able to watch it in installments. Maybe it's because I've ruined my attention span with video games and... what was the topic again?

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I did find myself MiSTing at a few points, and my boyfriend kicked me. Well, when Gimli pledged his axe to Frodo 3 minutes after busting it to pieces on the ring, I just couldn't keep from whispering a smartassed comment under my breath. You know how it is.

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I loved it, I also went into the cinema with a lot of expectations, and wasn't dissapointed, and, I also had a shit seat which made me uncomfortable, but I still loved it.

What a great film, the effects were fantastic and it's definitely the best film I've seen all year, although, the only real complaint I had was that it didn't come to any sort of ending.

What made Star Wars so popular was that you could watch "A New Hope" with absolutely no idea that there were another 2(5) films to go with it, and be happy, it had a beginning and an end, each film came to a conclusion. LotR just seemed to drift off, which meant that when I was walking out the cinema I was left feeling empty and didn't really know what to say. But when I thought about it, I realised I had just watched 3 hours of pure genius.

I give it 9½ Fireflies out of 10!

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Yes, Lara, I'm gonna totally geek out over it. Deal.

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On the whole, yes, this was an awesome movie and I want to see it over and over again. The film could have used some work as far as editing went, and introduction to the characters (they could have cut out some of the unecessary stuff in favor of some scenes introducing us to the members of the fellowship a bit better), but for the most part, it was incredible.

But, yes, to be honest, there was MSTing abound in this movie.

"And you have my AXE." "Uh, you mean the axe you just smashed into pieces? Gee, thanks."

"I hate Rivendell. It's the smell"

Since I'm an Aussie, I had been seeing Hugo Weaving around for years before The Matrix came out. As such, he is not 100% Agent Smith for me. Even so, I couldn't help hearing him, as he saw Frodo for the first time, saying, "Mister Unnnderhill."

If you like him as an actor, some must-see films of his are Proof and The Interview - both are favourites of mine.

Oh, Fellowship of the Ring... loved it, but I had a similar problem to LadyJ - second row from the front, way off to one side. I saw the screen all right, but after three hours my neck was throbbing.

Highlights:
The Balrog - I wish we could have seen more of it. One of the most amazing all-CGI things I have ever seen.
The Ford of Rivendell - A sequence which doesn't get a lot of attention, but one which I was really looking forward to. It was done beautifully, with just the right balance of natural water versus horse-shapes.
The sneak peek at Minas Tirith - It was little more than a teasing glimpse, but still...
The height effects - Utterly flawless. By the time Frodo and Sam had set out for Rivendell, I was already so convinced of the illusion that I was seeing them as being small without any big people around to reinforce it.

Disappointments:
Cut scenes - I worked out what PJ and co were aiming for with their trimming of the story: basically, cut out everything that was not story. As such, I can understand losing Tom Bombadil (who I never liked much anyway) but the Barrow Wight sequence was a sad omission, even so. How the hell Merry (or was it Pippin?) is going to get hold of that witch blade now I have no idea.
Dodgy effects - While the "slow" effects (Rivendell, various landscapes, size-differences) were brilliant, some of the "fast" effects were somewhat dodgy and/or inappropriate. The worst special effect in the film is, I think, when the Fellowship charges through a massive hall in Moria. The camera zooms out into the distance, and all of them are replaced with fully-CGI stand-ins. The trouble is, they are not even remotely convincing. Gandalf is in front at the time, and his running gait is completely different from the CGI replacement's. In the same sequence, a virtual "camera" zooms around the hall, and its ridiculously fast movement highlights the fact that the hall is CGI.

I am going to have to see it again before deciding how much I like it (same with Harry Potter, actually) but I definitely liked it very much on first viewing.

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The Ford of Rivendell - A sequence which doesn't get a lot of attention, but one which I was really looking forward to. It was done beautifully, with just the right balance of natural water versus horse-shapes.

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