Preaty self explanitory what do you think of the new Lord of the Rings movies coming out.

Anyone interested can look at the web page at http://www.lordoftherings.net

They have a real player chanel where you can get alot of information. Fair warning I believe you need Flash to vew their site.

We had a bunch of topics about this. You can check the old posts. But in summary every sign is that these movies are going to rock!

/me prays silently
Pleesee, mighty neutral gods, make the movie really really good wonderful and exciting...

Indeed, all signs point to yes. This movie's going to be as good as it gets.

i do believe voltric is correct. :D

I really hope this movie will be good!

LOL Take LotR and remove all the adjectives and you have a 5 page story. How in the name of hell are they gonna make a movie?! ROFL :D :D

Sorry I am still relativly new on the boards and normally forget to search for old topics.
Alex: I cant agree with you there.
Everyone but: I have to agree with you.

BTW howmany people have actually read all of the lotr books.

After downloading the 11 megs of the first trailer and the 17 megs of the second one i have to say i will love it, i will love it...
*jumps around enthusiasticly*

First off I'd read all the LotR books, repeatedly, and many of the book about Middle Earth. What a world.

Alex, it's all part of J.R.R.'s writting style. I agree some parts do have a lot of description, but how is that a problem. Trust me the movie has lots of material to work with. Go check out the trailer at the LotR website. It will be an excellent movie. The best one out this years I suspect.

I've probably seen that trailer a thousand times now, and each time I get chills down my back....
It's going to be a great movie, but every true LOTR fan will probably hate one or two things in each movie, even the director of the movie said this and by that it seems that he understands that it is no small task to make a movie out of a book that so many people have read and love

Speaking of the director, Peter Jackson, have you seen his other work? Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Meet the Feabals. It's some wacked out stuff. Even sign is the LotR is going to be great, but Jackson is a screwed by guy.

Although the movie does seem to be real nice, I don't have much enthusiasm for the storyline. I must say I didn't enjoy lotr much and finished reading the series out of pure willpower :P

I would much rather have a movie on Agarwaen's (Turin Turambar) story from Silmarillion & Book of Lost Tales. Or maybe dragonlance. Anyways seems like they've put much into this movie and it won't be a major disappointment for anyone of us methinks (watched the d&d movie ? :) )

I am going to go see it as soon as it comes out!

It looks great from the previews.

Voltric, yeah I'm a big Peter Jackson fan! When I found out he was directing the Rings, I knew it was going to be good. He makes messed up (I mean DEMENTED!) movies on a shoe-string budget, and he loves to use puppets and live props. Give that man a big budget, he's gonna make a really degenerate crazy movie.

To anyone that hasn't seen his previous movies, they're completely bizarre gore-fests for the most part (Meet the Feebles being the most bizarre movie EVER made).

Before seeing Lord of the Rings, I recommend that any normal people rent "Heavenly Creatures" (highly recommended, especially for fantasy fans) and any wierdos rent, "Dead Alive," "Bad Taste," or "Meet the Feebles" so you know what you're in for.

I still haven't seen 'the frighteners' anyone know if its good?

Sad to say but I havent seen any of Peter Jackson's other works and nor am I one to go out to the movies very often.

/prays movie will be good.

ArtEChoke, is 'the frighteners' a new Peter Jackson film, I haven't seen or heard of it. Heavenly Creatures was was a more normal Jackson film, at least the only blood was from the one brick attack.

Voltric, yes, the Frighteners is one of his newer movies, it came out sometime in the '90s, it was about a guy that communicates with ghosts, I believe that one was pretty mainstream as well.

Yes Heavenly Creatures was oriented towards a story more than gore, but I think its his most interesting story to date, and those wierd fantasy sequences were out there.

The Frighteners was a pretty decent movie, not great but not an insult to the viewer.

It's Michael J. Fox as someone who can see ghosts and uses them to scam people as a ghostbuster(of course, the ghosts are his employees scaring people into his business). Then a big evil spirit goes haywire and things get messy.

Yeah this movie will be good! :)


I hope! :D

The movie will be good as movie but don't compare it with the book, you surely would be disappointed.

Secondly, it's a fantasy book. Fantasy is in your mind, not visible so the movie will not be what the book is. The movie will also be different from the book, the movie pays much more attention to the relationship of Arwen and Aragorn, and the book doesn't pay much attention to that. I'm gonna watch a great fantasy-movie bit it will not afflict my mind-view of LOTR, the book...

The new trailer of 33 mb is great. I can't wait till part one is in the Cinema!

My big fear with the movie is the Marketing Hype that will accompany it.

Burger King has coined the phrase, "One Burger Shall Rule Them".

And, if this is a success, can't you see them making a "Hobbiton Christmas Starring Bilbo, Brittney Spears & NSYNC!" ?!? (Remember the Star Wars Christmas Special with the Wookies????)

I had a nightmare last night with a Dark Rider riding up to the boarder of the Shire and declaring, "All your base belong to us." :D :rolleyes:

It seems to be right on so far!!! but yes it is a movie(only 2 hours long). Look out Episode II...no kiddie stuff in LOTR

I understand your fear about the marketing. I mean "One Burger to rule them all" is just the start. Mark my words, you know they are going to have a meal deal with onion rings. And just wait until the 3rd movie comes out. It will be "Return of the Burger King". But then their is the fast food hype theory that movies hyped at Burger King do well and one's at McDonald's flop.

All this aside I just wnat to see a good movie, and all signs are this one will be. No Lucas blue screen crap, real actors, real sets, and they even tell the public what is going on - unlike the E2. The actors are into the movie and a lot of movie and time as been spent. The trailer looks great and beside from a few issue with the romanance thing I haven't heard one things bad.

Four months to go and I'm excited. I'll be there opening night! Hope you will to.

Don't get me wrong, I will see it opening day, and I've been talking my friend's ears off about it.

Maybe I'm just looking at the negative side so that I won't be disappointed.

My little heart can't take another disappointment :( ;) :p

Anybody remember the first movie they made it was really film footage then cartooned over made in the 70's i think it was in 2 parts but 2nd part didn’t come out. :(

KD, talking about the Cartoon version of The Fellowship is just depressing. The new movie should not be spoken of in the presence of that reality/cartoon travisty. Trust it is not in the same league.

The image that keeping coming to mind when I think of the cartoon is all the character waving their fists in the air while talking, like they were milking the proverbial big cow in the sky. Need I go on...

I try not to think about the marketing stuff that goes on with major movies, mostly because i really don't care. I will admit that some are cute the first time you see them. But by the 12th time I am ready to haul off and distroy any advertising I see.

Anyone else feel this way?

U no the films, graphics look good, and all, but there r some points, that worry me, Gandalf, or Ian MacKellan, is a bit old for the part, also they do play the romance up too much, Tolkein, got the balance right and they shouldnt interfere in such a major way. Also, i Hope to the many Gods out there that they dont portray Arwen as a warrior Princess, that would ruin it, and there are plenty of sites out there and the trailers hint at it, that they have. Eowyn i could understand, she almost is, but not arwen, who does not fight. I pray. And this film will be the best and most popular film this year, and the next.

The (official) web site has had more hits than neother film website in the history of film websites.

One or two little niggles.
Firstly how will they end the first film. Tolkein probably was not expecting to make it into a film so the end of fellowship of the ring is a bit of an anticlimax for the end of the first movie.

And when looking through the website i was pleased to see that nearly all of the characters looked very true to their discriptions. i say nearly all because i was dissapointed with Sam. He looks a bit too old and jowly for the young valient Sam.
Does anyone else think that?
And just for you English people, is it just me or does that picture of sam look strangly similar to Amon Holmes from the lottery program?????!

As much as I'd love to think the movies will be perfect, precedent says otherwise. How much talk was there (at least on fan sites) about how great D&D would be? TONS! And yet, the only adjective worthy of the movie would be pathetic. If the same happens for LotR, I won't be suprised. :( Especially with those pathetic animated attempts from the 70's *shudders despite himself* Still, one can hope.

Now Star Wars: Ep.2 on the other hand, is GUARANTEED to suck...

When does the film come out in America? Its not out until December here. Also, having read the books (I assume you mean Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers and Return Of The King; sorry, its just that I think of them as one book as I have them all in one weighty tome), I was a bit perplexed at the aapparent lack of imposing characteristics in the actor playing Aragorn. Still, maybe the film itself will quosh my fears :)

I doubt it though, i think aragorn wont be bad, hes quite quiet and contemplative, which is rite. the hobbits worry me though, and the cartoon was russian, and insulting, and will be nothing like these films, just thank god that JRR Tolkien put the clause into his will that his works could never be used by Walt disney, or think wot would of hapened, happy little dwarfs hopping along.... shudder!

One thing that I'm very excited about is the use of 'real' props in LotR. Maybe this is only proof that I'm old but I always liked the models from SW4 more than the CGI from PM. What did one of the actors say "all we do is stnad around in front of blue screens." I'm glad this is not the case in LotR. Go check out the chips they have on hobbitain. They build the whole set. Shotting on scene and using models, if done right, looks great. I think CGI has it's place but don't over use it.

Maybe this could be a new topic in itself. do you like modeling or CGI better?

Well I like modeling and planting gardens and hedges, builting roads and mills is just to cool. Everything I see about this movie just makes my more and more excited about it. I'm so glad they are doing it right!

I had seen some pictures of the movie already, and there was a picture of Galadriel. In the book she was described as one of the most beautiful women on the earth, but the Galadriel in the movie is ugly. So, the casting could have been better.

I agree with that, Silverblade! They should've cast Anna Kournikova in that role!!! ;)

Sorry to resurrect an older topic, but since I haven't seen LOTR yet, this is still "news".

I found a great review of the movie on one of my favorite websites.
http://www.alliancenet.org/pub/articles/duncanlotr.html

This is great, especially if you're curious about Tolkien's christian under-pinnings.

Lord of The Rings is awesome. I have watched it numerous times and it just gets better every time. This movie is a must see.