Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Pros: stunning, superb production; near-perfect cast, great effects, lovely score, and above all emotion
Cons: took a little time to get rolling; the female roles were miscast

I got up out of my seat dizzy. I walked out of the building feeling like I was floating on air. I felt like I had experienced something…holy. Are we talking about a movie here? Yes indeed! We are talking about the much-anticipated, ...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

I had heard about The Lord of the Rings at different times, but I never really knew what it was about. Then I started to see previews for the movie version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I saw the movie in ...

Pros: when a movie’s this good, it goes beyond pros...
Cons: ...or cons for that matter (although there are a couple)

What movie less than an epic would make you wait half a year for it to come out on video? I and most of the civilized world have been waiting breathlessly for the most awe-inspiring movie in years to appear in stores, counting the days till August 6th...

Pros: Incredible production values. Actors who look and sound the part.
Cons: A few continuity errors, but other than that...

I approached this film with a great deal of trepidation and dread in my heart. After all, I had read the trilogy about thirty years ago, had devoured The Silmarillion when it finally was in print, and had cried FOUL when that animation version was...

Pros: I dare not give such a small list as will fit here.
Cons: It isn't perfect.

Warning! This may turn out to be one of the longest reviews I have ever written.
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I feel that a certain amount of personal commentary is...

Pros: My faith is restored in fantasy movies as I know it can be properly done
Cons: I only saw it twice

Did you really think I was going to let a little thing called sleep get in my way of watching this movie? If you even have to think about it, then you have more of a brain than I do because I surely wasn't using mine at the time. Then again, when it ...

Pros: great casting, wonderful action, excellent plot, beautiful locations, great soundtrack
Cons: a somewhat unavoidable abrupt ending---otherwise perfection!

Fellowship of the Ring blew me away. After being hyped up for over a year both on the Internet and on TV spots, I was expecting maybe an over media-blitzed so-so flick, much the way Harry Potter disappointed me. Harry Potter was uninspired and...

Pros: McKellen, special effects, attractive look
Cons: Frodo is made to question his participation a little too much

Small things can sometimes make all the difference in the world. In “The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring,” we meet two small things that possibly fit into that category. One is the Ring Of Power, which was once possessed by Sauron, an evil...

Pros: the characters and actors (aside from Arwen); atmosphere
Cons: perhaps too long, dragging in parts; some confusion for people unfamiliar with story

At this point, I'm beginning to believe in curses--both the gypsy kind and the kind you mutter when annoying bozos refuse to keep to their theater seats during a film. You see, I suffer from the first kind, which makes me prone to the second.
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Pros: great scenery
Cons: really boring

"Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of he Ring" is a story about a cute little fella named Frodo, who is a "hobbit." Frodo lives in a happy little hobbit village that appears to be modeled after an English village from Medieval times. Frodo inherits a...

Pros: Magical, enchanting, captivating!
Cons: none

I actually saw this movie a long time back, some time in March 2002. I liked it so much that I actually saw it twice in theatres with my husband. So I would not say that yes, but I will watch it on video!, as epinions suggest. I have actually seen it...

Pros: Peter Jackson's masterful adaptation, fine acting, great effects.
Cons: None

The Fellowship of the Ring, New Zealander Peter Jackson's first installment of three films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, is an entertaining and awe-inspiring movie. With a multi-national cast, majestic landscapes, jaw-dropping special ...

Pros: You've never seen a movie like this one before.
Cons: The nearly three-hour length may be a bit demanding for some.

I've always been a huge fan of the quest epic. After spending a good portion of my youth hypnotized by movies like Willow, Legend, Labyrinth and Krull, I began to wonder where THE quest movie was. One that wasn't 'schamltzed...

Pros: Their hearts may have been pure
Cons: The road to Mordor is paved with their good intentions

Peter Jackson's fast-food-friendly travesty of Tolkien's immortal The Lord of the Rings – the first installment, The Fellowship of the Onion Rings, is now available, with The Two Tacos and The Return of the Burger King under...

Pros: spectacular scenery, outstanding cast... they actually pulled it off
Cons: lots of changes from the book, particularly lessening of Sam's role

The first is that I wasn't asked to be involved!" Confessions of a Rabid Tolkienite A month ago, I never would have thought that by the time we saw my uncle, whose love of Tolkien surpasses even that of my dad, during our Christmas travels, ...