Review: Lord of the Rings

i still cant beleive ush said lotr was better than tpm. i didnt think it was possible that ANYTHING could be better than tpm...

ok, now that I'm reading your posts here,...
I have to ask something (because A LOT where coming in when the movie started)

You have x rings, the bad guy gives them to elfs, humans,... so they will get attached and they will support him...
Then he makes the One, the powerfull ring, he looses it etc.
how does it came in the possession of that small dude? (not talking about the Hobbit)
Sorry, but when I watch a movie I never remember names ...
I only know Sauroman (that's the Dutch translation) because it's the same guy that will play the baddie in AOTC.
And what was the last name of Frodo? Beggins or Belings? (one is the Dutch translation, witch is VERY strange, why did they changed it???)

Blimey. I created an entire thread in the LOTR area to field questions like these...

Bigsef, why is it so unlikely that a film can be better than TPM? If you think that is my normal view on things then that is seriously skewed.

KJ, no, Gandalf doesn't do the ford trick, though he did add the horses as a cosmetic touch. It was Elrond (or at least his power) who wiped out the Wraiths at the ford in the books; that wasn't all of them but the rest were killed by Glorfindel, who was not in the films.

yerss, Isildur had the Ring, as you know. He was killed in an Orcish ambush as he tries to cross a river. The ring slips from his finger and falls into the river; millenia later it is found by two Hobbits out fishing. The one who finds it wants to keep it, but his rather dodgy companion Smeagol (already starting to be corrupted by the ring's presence- unusual, for a Hobbit) murdered him for it. Smeagol later became Gollum.

The surname is Baggins.

I think I got it... but the Orcs were created (well, mutated I thought it was ...) by who?

Long time ago (many thousands of years), by Sauron.

and HE lost it to Isigard, I hope
(ok, sorry, but I'm terrible in names, and HECK even after 10, yes, TEN minutes the movie started, people were still flocking in and blocking the view!)

No no no. Sauron and Saruman both employ orcs. Orcs are very numerous.

And damn ugly...though that one Half Orc/ Half Goblin they created was very interesting..

I'm going to stop with these questions, only confuses me more and more!!!

I thought that they didn't showed the orcs good enough, you couldn't see them long enough to get scared (like that would scare anyone)

Same here.

i loved the scene where the new orc (uruk) pulls the blade of strider in to his belly and then strider slices his head off.

I absolutely loved the movie! I can say this is easily my next favorite movie trilogy, and my favorite movie series only behind Star Wars. The make-up and setting development was absolutely brilliant! Everyone fit their parts in my honest opinion although I think Frodo (Wood) could have played a more noble part and the whole "I'll save the world" was way to sudden. Honestly, I was hoping for some persuasive actions by Gandalf that actually put Frodo in a "Your the only one, do it or destroy the world" type situation.

However, everything else was just plain genius.

How can you say it's your next favourite movie trilogy when you've only seen one of the movies?

I'll buy the DVD but I can't imagine rushing out to see the next film.

And I agree with you about the Frodo thing.

What about the Godfather's and Indiana Jone's?

AND COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!! EVIL DEAD TRILOGY !!!!!!!!! DAMN IT PEOPLE YOU CANT FORGET ABOUT BRUCE CAMPBELL!!!!!

And the Karate Kid! Or is that four movies? 😕

UBH had you read the books?

Originally posted by King Jedi
How can you say it's your next favourite movie trilogy when you've only seen one of the movies?

I'll buy the DVD but I can't imagine rushing out to see the next film.

And I agree with you about the Frodo thing.

Well...call this a hunch KJ but when one reads the novels, and the movies are guaranteed to be along the storyline of the novels, one can assume it will be just as good, maybe a bit less vibrant, but very good indeed. Indiana Jones comes after LOTR, and Godfather after it. Karate Kid is 4 movies.

Karate Kid III and The Next Karate Kid sucked, anyway

didn't they all?
Like Police Acedemy, the first was good and then it dropped

UBH, that's why I asked if you'd read the books.