Yu-kai's review on fellowship of the ring(82 pts) - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Reviews

I believe I should explain my reasoning for not liking this movie fast before everyone tries to burn me. I understand what is great about this movie, but it does not mean we can neglect the little things that they do wrong. LOTR is the most famous movie with the most glitches I have ever seen. I understand that making a fantasy movie like this is not easy to be glitch free, but there's too many. I have only seen the first part, the big battle of the 2nd part, and I decided no to watch the whole one and the third part. Since what's good about this movie is found everywhere, I'll just talk about why I don't like it. I'll include the parts I've seen on the 2nd one too since it's convinient to do so. First lets give some point values: Video: 92 Audio: 90 Scenes: 92 General Plot: 87 Specific Plot: 83 Intensity: 82 Consistency: 88 Glitches: -12 As you seen all the stuff are pretty solid. The only thing I can pick out of the movie, besides the glitches is the slow pace. The movie doesn't seem to have a fast pace, and with 3 hours of this, you get quite tired watching it. Yea, I'll get to the point, what are all the glitches that I am talking about? Well, first, glitches are more oftenly seen the 2nd time watching the movie, I have only seen it once, so ones I didn't identify doesn't mean it's not there. But I can already tell you a plethora of it: 1. During the first part, there was a place where the big fire devil(pardon me for not remembering much names, I'm not aquainted to Tolkiens' book and only seen the movie once. But one should not let the book influence rating on the movie) was chasing the fellowship. They were running on the stairs and the place is so crappy that their weight made the stairs fall down. If those little guys can make the stairs fall down, HOW IN THE WORLD DOES THAT FIRE DEVIL RUN AROUND AND CHASE THEM!???? Oh, maybe he can fly...but wait! He fell down with Gandolf! He can't fly, he just magically appeared to catch up to everyone. It looked more like a video game to me at that part where you keep running in one direction and someone is chasing you and will never catch you, when you finish the level, he catches up and you have to fight the boss....^^|| 2. Wraiths suck!!! From the description in the movie, wraithes are described as super powerful beings. There's 9 of them in the world and it seems like each one of them and defeat a thousand men. What I saw in the movie is.... The only thing they do is ride horse and scare short people. They are afraid of fire, they are afraid of water. 6 of them were trying to kill Frodo and 1 human with a torch scared them away.... I don't know what kind of definition of suck would you use, but they suck. My friends told me they're better in the book; the book doesn't count in the movie. My friends also said: "What makes them so powerful is that they can't die! You just can't kill them! Anything that can't die is scary and powerful..." Then i bring up my favorite analogy. You've played Super Mario 3 right? In it there's this skeleton turtle that when you step on it, it turns into bones and then it revives. Even though they can't die, THEY STILL SUCK! They have no threat. (I know you can find ways to kill them, but not my point). Anyways, the wraiths suck. Then my friend told me in the 2nd and 3rd one they become more powerful, and I said "Good! That's more like it!" But then I discovered they are more powerful just because they are riding on dragons!!!! Oh yea...I I heard one or some died because the girl stabbed a dagger in them.......point made. 3. The fact that the elf guy constantly have like 8 arrows left all the time and has time (explained in the book....) to pick them all back when surrounded by thousands of orc is just a little glitch. 4. The Dramatic place where the Dark Lord got his finger chopped off, starting the whole thing is kinda dumb. The human had a broken sword, he hit the dark lord's finger. The dark lord loses all the power and dies... This doens't make sense. The dark lord has all his powers, perhaps because the rings fulls his body with energy. The guy slashes at the dark lord, his finger, close to the ring, is suppose to be one of the lords toughest places. Yea they made it dramatic, but in reality situations, the guy would slash at the dark lord (first the dark lord is powerful enough not to let the guy touch him) and then when he hits the finger, the broken sword will instanltly turn to dust and the dark lord will laugh and all is to a end....yea, atleast they should make the dark lord fall in a more probable way. 5. This is more of an understanding part. Frodo puts on the ring and becomes invisible, where is the dark POWER? How come the dark lord doesn't become invisible? 6. The magicians fight...is funny. Goes like this. A shakes staff, B hits wall. B shakes staff, A hits the wall, so on. What the hell are they doing?? Are they playing RPG? I'm sure they are desperate on waiting their bar to fill and regret they didn't put more points in speed....WHAT ARE THEY DOING? It should go like this, A makes B hits the wall, and does it again, and again, and again, and again, and make him spin in the air until his bones shatter, and then make him hit the wall 10 times more...that's realistic fighting if they really have those powers! They are like, "Go hit the wall! Ok, now it's ur turn." And then the bad guy suddenly gets smarter and wins....wow, best fight I have ever seen. There's some really minor ones that I'm just too tired to talk about them now. We'll move on to the 2nd part. Realized I just watch about 20 minutes of it and I can pick out a few. 1. The Ent tree thing was carrying the 2 halfings for a whole day, and then he suddenly saw all the dead trees and got mad (He should kill humans too), he cried out loud and in 2 seconds the whole Ent race appeared ready for battle. Ummm...if the whole Ent race can appear in 2 seconds, WHAT WAS HE DOING WALKING FOR A WHOLE DAY WITH THE HALFLINGS ON HIS BACK?? Yea, maybe all the Ents were stockers. 2. The elf guy can shoot a orc in the head when it's half a mile away. WHen it really matters, when he should kill the orc with a torch 500 ft away, he shoots the shoulder, and then the other shoulder, and watches the kamakazi succeed.... 3. The dwarf jumped up and landed into the mass of Orcs...who had spears! Does no one know what a spear is for? Maybe they just wanted to make the movie less violent so they don't want to show raw dwarf on a stick..... 4. When they were on the bridge filled with orcs, they rode horses thru the bridge like knife thru butter and the orcs all fell off the bridge. Wait....horses are more powerful than orcs? 1 horce in front can knock aside 30 orcs? Well, maybe they are more powerful, but then WHY DOESN'T THEY JUST TRAIN 1000 HORSEMEN AND JUST CONSTANTLY RIDING BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH? That way all the orcs will die(if not damage) no? Well, anyways, those are the ones I still remember. Probably lots more. LOTR is really a good movie, but the glitches pulled it down alot, so it can't make my collection.Too too many.... If you can refute me, plz do. I like being convinced wrong, if you actually can. Feel free to e-mail me.