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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Directed by Peter Jackson

Fantasy | Adventure | Action

Most recently watched by CaptainBigTime, sensoria, DaNiedabaya, scottfinn, seanCduregger, SIxBORG, themarc, schofizzy, jenerator, lordofthemovies

Overview

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

Rated PG-13 | Length 179 minutes

Actors

Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Viggo Mortensen | Sean Astin | Billy Boyd | Dominic Monaghan | John Rhys-Davies | Orlando Bloom | Sean Bean | Liv Tyler | Cate Blanchett | Christopher Lee | Hugo Weaving | Ian Holm | Andy Serkis | Brent McIntyre | Sala Baker | Lawrence Makoare | Craig Parker | Marton Csokas | Peter McKenzie | Mark Ferguson | Harry Sinclair | Noel Appleby | Megan Edwards | Sarah McLeod | David Weatherley | Ian Mune | Michael Elsworth | Cameron Rhodes | Martyn Sanderson | Billy Jackson | Katie Jackson | Alan Howard | Victoria Beynon-Cole | Paul Bryson | Lance Fabian Kemp | Phil Grieve | Lee Hartley | Jonathan Jordan | Semi Kuresa | Sam La Hood | Jono Manks | Ben Price | Chris Streeter | Clinton Ulyatt | Peter Jackson | Chris Ryan | Bret McKenzie | Betty Adams | Timothy Bartlett | Bob Blackwell | David Houma | Jo Surgison | Liz Merton | Zo Hartley | Norman Cates | Jeff Kingsford-Brown | Marta Martí | Riley Brophy | Phoebe Gittins | Taea Hartwell | Shane Rangi | Jed Brophy | Paul Shapcott | Alan Lee | Larry Rew | Gino Acevedo | Xander Forterie | Richard Maybery | Sabine Crossen | Gareth Jensen | Ben Britton | Kester Fordham | Jarl Benzon | Sam Kelly | Matt Appleton | Blair Morton | Ray Henwood | Ralph Johnson | Jonathan Harding | Jørn Benzon | Ben Fransham | Tim Kano | Sacha Lee | Thomas Robins | Randall William Cook | Rachel Clentworth | Lani Jackson | Sharon Maxwell | David J. Muzzerall | Winham Hammond | Mana Hira Davis | Warren Green | Stu Johnson | Peter Lyon | Peter Daube | Samuel E. Shore | Rodney Bane | Daniel Andrews | Siaosi Fonua | Ken Stratton | Lynden Berrymen | Ryan Carey | Tack Daniel | Shane Dawson | Branko Dordevich | Greg Lane | Tim McLachlan | Dean Morganty | Greg Morrison | Andrew Munro | Grant Roa | Vincent Roxburgh | Mike Stearne | Andrew Stehlin | Tim Wong

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

Discovered that my go-to cinema had a cheap matinee for the new 4K update in IMAX so of course I went and was fortunate to get a private screening, which is nuts but then again not sure who cares to see this in the theater right now during the daytime hours. But it was cool for me given that I haven’t viewed this in over 10 years (pre-logging days). When the 4K UHD release happened late last year I finally had a hankering to revisit this trilogy but all my discs were packed up already. Then I saw it was returning to theaters so that gave me hope… until I saw the prices of the IMAX screenings (still haven’t reactivated my AMC Stubs). So it was nice to see this showing pop up at a price lowered than a normal non-IMAX screening.

I haven’t had the desire to revisit these films over the past 10 years or so bc as I’ve mentioned in notes for other action adventure flicks this trilogy has been beaten into the ground by my playing of the LEGO video game adaptation. The LEGO game has all the story beats and cutscenes from the films albeit in LEGO form and to achieve all the rewards and whatnot one has to replay the levels many times. I’ve done this both on XBox and PS3. That killed any interest in revisiting the films b/c I had seen (played) these sequences so many times! However, it’s now been several years since I’ve played those games so I’ve been wanted to watch these movies again (esp. when I see many folks on my TL do the trilogy during the recent holidays).

So it was nice to see this film on the IMAX screen and it looked really nice. Having not seen this movie in so long I was surprised at how much of this movie is shot in close-up angles. Like so much of this movie is close-up shots to the point where the character’s top of their head is off screen. So wild to see that as well as the medium shots that make much of this look like TV. Even the action is captured very close which doesn’t do it any good. I’m sure this was intentional to give those wide pull away shots more grandeur and it mostly works. But there’s a small percentage of those wide angle shots compared to the close-ups.

Anyways, this is still a fun movie but a lot of table-setting for the next two. I kept thinking that I’d rather be watching those next two films than this one simply b/c everything is established and you get the epic battles and action beats. Everything in this movie feels small (close-up shots add to that); the action, the battles, etc. all are smaller in comparison. I don’t think I’ll be able to view the other films in IMAX but hopefully I can catch up with them soon enough.

Didn’t realize until logging this that this year is its 20th anniversary. Just bananas as it really doesn’t seem that long ago but yeah. wow

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