Pity the poor fools like me who bought the extended versions of these incredibly long films. However rest assured that this post will be a lot shorter than watching this film.
The first film in this trilogy introduces the middle earth characters containing hobbits, dwarfs, elves, orcs, a balrog, nazgûl, uruk-hai, and humans. To complicate matters even further many of the characters have multiple names or names that sound the same such as, Sauron, Saurman, Strider, Argon, Gandolf the Grey, Merri, Pippin, Bilbo and Frodo. The film is a feast of fantasy foolishness for the nerdiest of nerds playing fantasy card games at their local comic book store.
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| Liv Tyler, because I don't want to look at any more pictures of Hobbits, Dwarfs and Orcs. |
No argument that this first film looks great. It was filmed entirely in New Zealand with some magnificent scenery in the background to look at. This is probably a good thing because most of this film is watching characters walking, walking, walking. The special effects are at a very high caliber and the actors seem very sincere in their roles.
Since this is J.R.R. Tolkein's elaborate fantasy creation it is probably not unexpected that the first film would spend most of it's running time setting things up for the next two films. Still, this is a mighty long haul through the first third of this trilogy.
219 minutes.
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