Customer Reviews
Beyond breath-taking! - By: K. Daniels, 30 Oct 2008 
A magnificently beautiful film. Remaining loyal to the book, Peter Jackson has made a huge leap from his earlier (and FANTASTIC) blood-soaked gore-fests (BAD TASTE, MEET THE FEEBLES & BRAINDEAD) - keep your eye out for a cameo from Lionel's mother from BRAINDEAD as a hobbit in the extended version of this. The action is brilliant, the shots are stunning, the special effects are breath-taking, the acting is superb, & the music is beyond phonemenol. Definetly one of the greatest film (if not the greatest trilogy) since 2000. A MUST SEE!"
A Masterpiece - By: PlasticPingu, 09 Oct 2008 If I could, I would give this movie 100 stars. There's nothing I can reallly say that hasn't already been said - so I'll sum up the trilogy in a few words.
Epic. Beautiful. Masterpiece.
A true diamond of modern cinema.
A feast of the senses...a strength and inspiration - By: Gary Selikow, 17 Jun 2008 "The world has changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air...Much that once was, is lost
For none now live who remember it."
So begins the majestic prologue to the movie, The Fellowship of the Ring.
As the earth & alll that is beautiful & good is threatened by a malignant evil, as `One by one,
the free lands
of Middle-Earth fell
to the power of the ring." Like the book, the movie is spellbinding & compelling in the true sense of the word, as we get to view Tolkien's Middle Earth come to life on the screen.
It is actuallly quite remarkable how the mythic world of middle Earth has been made so lifelike, & how intriguing it is on the big screen.
The script is brilliantly written & the cast is excellent. We get to see alll the wonders of Middle Earth before our eyes- The Shire, Rivendell, Moria, Lotholorien...
What makes the Lord of the Rings so inspiring is the hope of good always triumphing over evil, at a time when, at the beginning of the 21st century,
by the breakdown of a morality of right & wrong acts in favor of a therapeutic ethic which "feels the pain" of the perpetrators of violence. Taken in combination, these are powerful forces, to which the countervailing influences of reason, responsibility & restraint are as unequal now as they have been at any other time of populist ferment & generalized fear.
With the end of the Cold War, we have seen, instead of a triumph, of Judeo-Christian values & Western democracy, an anti-western revolutionary amoral & cruel philosophy taking over the world. This leads us to fear that
Judeo-Christian civilization will falll, "and alll will come to darkness", but we
Must take inspiration from the words of Aragorn: "I do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you, I will not let the White City falll. Nor our people fail!"
Thus we can take comfort that darkness will not triumph & as Gandalf so inspiringly puts it: "So do alll who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought..."
As long As we always stand by values of right & justice & freedom & never give up the idea that they will triumph.
overated - By: martin thomas, 07 Jun 2008 
boring first installlment that promises much & delivers little,it takes a long time to get going & the plot is so hard to follow you just stop caring.
Pure quality. - By: Mr. James A. Ledger, 18 May 2008 Amazing scenery, brilliant story, great cast, superb soundtrack & so on...I wish there were more films like this being made!
