Hey guys I'm back for the summer! Haha, couldn't come on Ciao at all over the last severel months be...
Hey guys I'm back for the summer! Haha, couldn't come on Ciao at all over the last severel months because of excessive college work! Expect lots of reviews!
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When I went to see this film in the cinema a few years back, I had no idea what Lord of the Rings was. I have never been so angry walking out of a cinema, not even after seeing 2 Fast 2 Furious, which was horrendous by the way.
The reason for this however, wasn't because the film was bad ... It was because it was the best film I'd ever seen and I didn't know I had to wait for a year to see what happned next!
The story is as you may or may not know from the novel by JRR Tolkien and it follows a hobbit named Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) who inherits his uncles magical ring which was the power to turn it's wearer invisble - quite handy one would assume.
However, things darken, as Gandalf the wizard (Ian McKellen) discovers that this ring is in fact "The One Ring" created by the dark lord Sauron. This part is quite difficult to explain.
The ring doesn't just make the wearer invisble, but it corrupts you. Wearing the ring would make you do evil things, and nothing good can ever come of wearing it. Also, Sauron has released nine pretty nasty wraiths after the ring, and when you wear it,
they are attracted to it.
Also, it is very tempting to use the ring. Using the ring gave Sauron complete power over everything, and people would obviously think that this is great, but it's far from great.
So anyway, Frodo finds out that these wraiths have found out where he lives, so he has to leave the peacful village of Hobbiton, and in fact leave The Shire, and take the ring to the elves in Rivendell.
He's not alone though, joining him on his way are his friends Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) Merry Brandybuck (Dominic Mohnagan) and Pippn Took (Billy Boyd). Gandalf however, has other business to intend to...
When they eventually reach Rivendell, a council is held by elf-lord Elrond (Hugo Weaving) and it is decided that the ring must be taken into the dark land Mordor and be thrown into Mount Doom, because there is no other way to destroy it. This is no easy task, as the place is full of orcs and other beasts gaurding it, and the great eye of Sauron is (literally) always watching...
So you would think this is no task for someone like Frodo Baggins, a simple hobbit from The Shire? Elrond seems to think otherwise, as everyone is argueing about who will take this burden, Frodo pipes up in what is in my opinion one of the most memorable lines in cinema history:
"I will take the ring ... Though I do not know the way"
Again, he's not alone though, joining him this time are of course his hobbit friends, and Gandalf, alongside Legolas (Orlando Bloom) for the elves, Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) for the dwarves, and for the men, Boromir (Sean Bean) and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen).
So they set off in what is an amazing journey, along the way they meet many dificulties, and they must overcome evil.
The performances from each and every actor is outstanding. I can't even pick out any particular actor or actress because every single person is absolutly brilliant. It would seem that director Peter Jackson could really bring out the best in people.
The story is everything. What I mean by that is there are heart-warming scenes, heart-breaking scenes, terrifying scenes, ilarious scenes, and scenes which will always stay with us.
Another thing that must be said about this film is that it has a superb soundtrack, courtesy of composer Howard Shore. The music is what guides you emotions and it just fits in so well here, I've even found myself humming or whistling tunes from the film.
The special effects are certianly the best I've ever seen too. The trolls look like they are actually real, and things like the flying dragon firework at the start are simply amazing, Weta Workshop are truely insperational for film-makers out there.
In the extended version, every deleted scene is there ... Only they have been put back INTO the film! This is absolutly brilliant because the film-makers actually went to the effort of mastering the film, writing a new score and adding this in, and treating the whole thing like they were making the film again, just so they could produce this DVD.
The film itself with the scenes put back in lasts for over two discs, and there is commintaties for the whole way through the film from a choice between differant sections of the film-makers (including Peter Jackson) and the cast. Yes, the whole cast.
On the other two discs are just as long documentaries, which show everything about how the film was made, from getting the actors, to special effects, to what everyone did in their spare time. The documentary was filmed between 1998 - 2001 so it is really amazing stuff to watch.
You should buy this DVD for so many differant reasons, but here are the three main ones:
1. It's the first part of the greatest story ever written. 2. The acting is the best you'll ever see. 3. There is no better value for money than this, including the huge documentary and all those deleted scenes cut back into the film.
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