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Who's looking forward to Lord of the Rings 2 and the DVD release of the first one?

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I was actually very impressed with the first Lord of the Rings movie.  The fantasy genre is a very difficult type of story to turn into a good movie.  Many have tried, few have been able to pull it off.  I do think that the first battle scene at the beginning of the movie should have felt more epic but aside from that I think they manage to tell the story in a way that kept me interested all the way through.  Definitely a DVD buy.

oh yeah!, I'm also looking foward to see that movie too, fellowship of the ring was amazing, I saw it twice and I'm dying to get it on dvd too !!
Here is the trailer of the Two Towers
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/the_two_towers/
in case anyone haven't seen it, I highly recomend it!!! seems like this is gonna be an awesome trilogy.  ;D

I won a blockbuster rent 10 movies and get Fellowship of the ring DVD cards at work...... so oh yes! I'm getting it :D

By the way.... after reading all whose replied to this thread, i get like a feeling this is a KQ9 only members forum. :D Where's the rest of the people here??

César

I heard there is a 45 minutes battle scene in The Two Towers, that should be quite interesting to watch!

Looks like the Lord of the Rings DVD is going to be pretty cool :

- The 178-minute cut of the film
- Trailers and the best TV spots
- Featurettes that the official LOTR site ran over the year before the movie came out
- Television Specials

You can read the full review at http://dvd.ign.com/articles/366/366162p1.html

I also heard they are going to release a 4 DVD disc set in a few months.  I guess the real question now is who is the best Lord of the Rings fan the one who buys it first or the one who waits 2 extra months for the ultimate edition?

I will let you decide.

I don't know about any of you, but I think it's worth it to wait.  I loved the movie, and  I can't wait to own it, but if I'm going to spend the money, I might as well get the 4 disk one.  

I don't know about you, but special features I usually watch once.  I bought the 3-disc pack for Toy Story 2, went all over the place to find it when it first came out, it cost me more and I have yet to finish watching the third disc.  Its not really worth it for me.

I agree with Jen, If I'm gonna actually get the movie I would wait to get the especial edition, I think is about waiting some more and get the full 4 DVD set, but also Rich does make a point  :), special features is not something we watch so frequent.... all we usually do is watch the movie itself so, I don't know it depends in how much of a "fan" you choose to be I guess? About the lord of the ring movie, I would wait like Jen  ;D

I saw the LOR again yesterday I rented it and I just can't get tired to say it, is for sure one of the best movies ever,  I love Gandalf, Aragorn and Frodo, but to me the coolest is Aragorn!  ;D
I don't want to ruin someone's hope on seeing the two towers and the return of the king, but I'm anxious to comment a lot of stuff about it, since the first movie was so amazing I just can't wait to see the whole story, so anyone here has read the book (and remember) what happens? ::) I totally forgot about what happen on this next part, I read it long ago, I know frodo doesn't keep the ring, who does?

I think Gandalf's fight was very cool no matter what, but Rich is right, it could have been more like a magical thing going on there.
What you do guys think about all the monsters in the movie? I loved the troll and the ancient demon!! they looked amazing to me.

I have been a fan of fantasy + Tolkien for sooo long, even before the film exhisted. I'm so glad other people are finding out the delights of it all. But it does make me gealous as well, because.....I loved it for so long that I felt like it was part of me and me only. My own wonderful world! :). Now I'm one of the pebbles in the ocean.

Probably the first KQ fans felt the same way when so many people began discovering that awesome game and its sequels.  But thats what happens with good literature and good games, they become famous.  Luckily the classics have stayed true to themselves.

don't feel bad about it pleasant girl, as a matter of fact, this kind of people as you mentioned that -recently- discovered it, the "newest fan" of fantasy subject, they probably would have never read "the book" and now they have seen the movie I don't think they won't either honestly, so the real magic to me is on the fans that actually read a book instead of just  go to the movie and watch it, I think.  :)

by the way,  Rich did you know that Spiderman has about 98 (or something) mistakes on the sequence in the whole movie?, some sort of like there was a bag in the room, then they show a close up of somebody's face, when they go inmediatly back to the room scene the bag was missing and stuff.
Anyhow, I liked it as well and I never noticed ANY of them when i saw the movie if I wouldn't read it in the newspaper I would have never know :P

HAHAHA! that was mean Rich, even I do think too that the goblin costume could have been WAAAYY better, I know, I liked spiderman's costumbe a lot instead!! it kinda looked 3d sometimes.
And thanks for sharing your knowledge with us Cesar, and where it is a big no or not they sold a lot anyways!!!!!  :)

I think hollywood movies rely too much on 3d. While there have been some spectacular special effects in the movies lately, I think they're overdone. A lot of movies, such as the new star wars films, are nothing but special effects. It sorta take the magic out of the whole 'going to the movies' thing.

For example: Willow. It was one of the greatest films ever made. They didn't use CGI back then but the special effects were realistic none the less. The problem is that CGI makes magic so cheap that you see it in at least 3 out of 5 movies. Willow was so incredible because, at the time, a movie like that only came along once every 2 or 3 years.

Granted, lord of the rings would have been MUCH harder to do without CGI. practically impossible. But it would have been a better experience if I hadnt already seen Harry Potter in the same week.

I don't think that is a bad thing, as a matter of fact I guess it helps somehow when they're actually doing the movie, sometimes they just can't get it all real and they need a little help, like for example, gladiator I guess?? the coliseum people was done by computer (as so other effects which i don't remember right now) and it didn't take out the magic of the movie, I think it helped somehow to create it.
There are so many movies using 3d technology nowdays, like matrix, Lord of the ring, gladiator, etc, and I don't think they were so bad?
I guess it depends in how is the technology being used in the movie.

I wouldn't say 3D is cheap.  Have you ever seen a company bill for the 3D services they do, its not like you could afford it.  By the time you pay the entire crew, the workstations, the render farm, the software, the bill has already had time to grow.  I think its more realistic to say that 3D is cheaper for what you get out of it.  The real power of 3D is that you can continue retooling and refixing things unlike traditional special effects methods like stopmotion where you have to get it right the first time.  Plus its all digital which makes it easier to import and use with today's compositing tools.

Even though I work in 3D I agree that its way overused.  But as Say said its also how they use it.  Hollywood producers think that 3D is the IN thing and you will sell movies with it.  I personally prefer movies that use 3D and that I don't always realize it because its so well integrated and used to embelish the look of the movie not to establish it.

When it comes down to it, if you don't have a good story, good actors and a good director you'll have a crap movie.  Which is what happened with Episode 2.  The story had potential, the actors we know are capable of giving oscar caliber performances but there director just couldn't bring those elements together which is why I dispised that movie.

Say, yes I do like Spiderman.  He's a great action hero, he's down to earth and we can relate to him.  But I know him more from the various tv series than the comics so as my friend Phil says I am not a "true" fan.

True or not I guess you're a fan already and that's not a bad thing at all, there are some factors I guess.
I'll take an example, I used to buy witchblade.... yes I did, then the tv show appeared and I started to go short on money and well I skipped a few... then I didn't mind about it, and yes i was pissed off about it at the beggining 'cause the tv show is like a different thing all over, the concept of everything is a whole new thing and well, then I just had to deal with it and just watch the damn show lol, but hey, I love witchblade still and I don't feel like a bad fan
She won't give me the money to buy her stuff right now  ;)

but Rich if  you would get to know a bit more the comic story!! honeslty, you would realize how dark it really is, and how it truly is it's real shape, on tv i never said it was bad, is way fine, but i don't know, maybe i was really into that sweet drama in the comics that now this looks totally different for me.
For example Nothingham is more misterious than tv, on tv he kinda looks like a nice guy, always saving her and stuff, it kinda puts everything in another perspective

look we started on LOTR stuff and now we're heading to witchblade.... hehehe  :P

Well Witchblade is cool too.  Lord of the Rings is awesome, but its not the only thing in the world.  Besides this is one of our biggest topics, and no one cheated here.  All posts are relevant more or less which is really sweet.  Sometimes its intresting to see where conversations can lead.

I don';t know what to say on this thread

 ;D

Oh look Cesar as always sticking his nose everywhere, he cant help it! ;D

 ::)

this got quiet in here all of a sudden, maybe Rich stopped watching witchblade  or something ;D
(maybe he just got bored talking to me :P)

hehe, just kidding  ;D

It could be true anyways  ::)

'Tis not as quiet as you think, I'm always around the corner..............as melodramatic as ever! ;)

YAY at least someone is reading me
 ;D
I thought i was forgotten
 ;D

wow long thread! I thought I'd better stick my nose in! Well I wasn't a giant tolkien fan. Before the film cam out I'd only ever read the hobbit which was good. But as soon as the film came out I went and bought the trilogy and devored it in one month.
 Oh yea someone said earlier on about the mistake when gimli(the dawarf) saying that his cousin gloin was living in the mines of moria. This was because no one but gandalf and saruman knew what had happened in the mines. Oh and Say Frodo keeps the ring till the very end(almost anyway) but I'm not going to spoil it!
 Oh yeah and whats all this witchblade stuff??? I saw an advert for it on ICQ but it hasnt come out in the UK yet.

Wow alex, you read the old post here, hahah thanks for the info anyways, but is that right ? ? ? I guess Frodo eventually dont keep the ring in one part I remember reading it I guess? oh well, maybe i should just go and get the book instead :P

 ;D

ohhhhh I remember! You're right Say but I'm not saying who takes it, it'd ruin it! And I was just browsing thru this old stuff and I wanted to look "knowledgable" or something like that anyway

hahaha I know what happens on the third part!!!!
but THAT would be like ruin it for those who expect with love the second part, thats why i just cant wait to see the whole 3 movies, because the third part is just... WOW and im so dying to see how they are going to adapt it into the whole -movie scene-
BESIDES! gullam gets back on the second part too, remember him? the ugly little thing that had the ring before that hobbit's would find it, I guess he has a "bigger" appearance now in this second part, gullam was his name? I dont remember much, my "knowledge" about it kinda sucks I forgot so many things by now  ;D

One of my friends at work says that there is already a dvd quality version of the Two Towers released on the net somewhere.  I don't know about you but I don't want to see it and spoil the movie, I would prefer to wait and see it in the theatre.

WHERE? hahahahaha that so weird!!!
OF COURSE I WOULDNT SEE IT, i wanna see it big big big on the teather with cool sound, and with my nestea beside me and popcorn to throw on the front people's seats   ;D yay!  ;)

Were nearing the end of September, soon December will be knocking on our door along with two of the most anticipated movies of the year : STAR TREK NEMESIS and THE TWO TOWERS!!!

Can they beast out SPIDERMAN for the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR?  Only time will tell.............but I am eager to find out!  SPIDER AIN'T GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!  Thanks to that sticky webbing of his.

eerr.... Rich? sweetie, I love you and everything but.... spiderman wasnt THAT good to be the movie of the year  ;D

*runs and hides*

Spiderman NOT GOOD ENOUGH to be the best movie of the year?   :o

Hehe well I guess thats a matter of personal opinion..........There haven't been that many memorable movies this year...........those I thought might be were a big let down.  So for me Spiderman still is #1.

It had its flaws but the interpretation of the hero was right on thanks to a great director and creative team!

I saw the SECOND trailer for Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers.  The first one was ok but this one really really really makes me want to see the movie.  I'm looking forward to December!

I've got to say, I've always been a fan of the Fantasy movie genre. I've seen just about any movie that ever involved swords, knights, wizards, or dragons. For the longest time Willow was my above all favorite movie. But it definetly lacked something that Lord of the Rings has surely provided. Its the difference between a great story, and a great Epic.

Lord of the rings has been attempted so many times in the past, from Orsen Wells to Ralph Bakshi it has definetly been the one greatest fantasy tale of all time. The most amazing part of it is the fact that Tolkien did it all first. Most people that play modern day rpgs see things like elves orcs wizards and goblins and dont even realize that it was Tolkein that gave them the look and feel that the Forgotten Realms universe has capitolized on so well over the years.

I was truly amazed by how well the first movie captured the essence of Tolkein's novel. Its not an fairy tale as much as its an Saga. The world although so apart from our own is so very realistic and beleivable. I cant wait to see the Two Towers, it was by far my favorite book of the three. I hope it is as amazingly accurate as the first movie was.

awww, lord of the rings, now that would be a top #1 movie like!!!

a movie i just cant get out of my head i saw on the teathers this year is Count of Montecristo, Duma's book has never been so amazing to me! yay, is like he couldnt pick better faces for that story, anyone read that over here? well if you havent seen it is really fun to watch ( I liked it myself but i dont think is the #1 this year, as well as not spiderman  ;D )

talking about heroes movies again, I CANT WAIT TO SEE X-MEN 2!!!!! I HEARD GAMBIT IS GONNA BE THERE YYAAAYYY, I love gambit, I really do :)

Gambit is cool, but Wolverine is still my favorite.  I hope tht they will start to introduce less humanoid mutants in the X-Men movies like Beast and Nightcrawler.  The first movie was okay because it was new but I think its time to delve into the more fascinating mutants of the series.

oh I loved sabertooth!
YAY!
I heard beast is gonna appear on the second part too, cant wait to see hows' gonna be it and all the costume and make up stuff, :)

The clock is ticking down to Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers.

The long talked about 4-Disc set will be hitting the shelves on the 12th of November.  You can read the IGN's 16 page review at http://dvd.ign.com/articles/374/374921p1.html

It should be an interesting DVD to watch!  ;D