How was it to watch The Fellowship of the Ring for the first time in 2001?
>>215111845The vhs was crazy
>>215111845Idk. I was born in 2002.Past a certain age, still posting on 4chan can be a bad thing.
>>215111845The second one was more mindblowing
>>215111874Come on dude, by 2002 most homes had a DVD player.
The movies are ass, you should read the book instead.
>>215111845all 3 movies in cinema were a historical experience, felt like a true adventure and was a feast for the eyes.
Watched it on dvd at my aunt's, she had a big ass CRT TV and I was mesmerized watching it
>>215112240I feel the same no movies come even close seeing the trilogy in cinemas as a kid was truky something else and here we are over 20 years later and nothing has been nearly as good, sadge.
>>215111986Nah more like 2005
>>215111845hm honestly it looked better than anything else beforebalrog was sick
>>215111845The way it ended with Aragorn saying “let’s hunt some orcs” it was like fucccccck I have to wait a year until the two towers drops
>>215111845I read the books before hand, I was pretty happy it stuck mostly to the book.
>>215111845Like a bag of sand
>>215111845It was unbelievable in theaters. I went to go see it probably 3-4 times with my dad and my family when it came out. Same with the other movies. No other movie experience compares to how mindblowing those movies were when they came out.
>>215111874>>215111845It was fantastic and i had the vhs for the first one
>>215111845I didn't appreciate how good it was at the time, kino was just a regular occurrence
>>215111845It forced me to read the book when I was far too young.
i was 13 and had read the book a year or so before, it was the most incredible thing that i could possibly have experienced
>>215111845it was boring in theater, i had to get up to piss several times.
I saw it with my mom for some reason and enjoyed it very much but found the ending to be lackluster (still do).
I was 4 and jizzed my pants
Pretty good, I watched it twice in cinema
>>215111845Was crazy to see middle aged people beaming with pride coming out of the theater, never really seen that before it was so surreal, just big smiles, walking taller, feeling like they won something for the first since in years, nay, decades.
>>215113128i wasnt even paying attention to any adults, too busy to rave about the movie with my wibbel friends
>>215111845Saw it twice in theatres, didn't really care for the others but the first one was special
>>215111845ebin, simply ebin.>>215111897You’re here forever friend. Enjoy bragging about being young while you can.
Watched it for first time around x-mas with my parents and was very impressed with this masterpiece.
>>215113168The second one had the most fucking badass opening of any movie that time. No one expected Gandalf falling and fighting the balrog to be the start of the movie.
>>215111845It was the perfect moment in time between practical effects being relevant and CG still being impressive
>>215111845Cool special effects in the theater the scene that got me sacred was when they enter that cave and stuff and they fight the troll and also the orcs come from them from everywhere and the baldur it was awesome, then we watched the return in vhs, it was cool too more action, and i was a thirdworlder kid in Peru
I was absolutely mesmerized. My (actual) boomer dad hated it>"that's it? 3 hour movie and hey didn't even get there!">walk him to the Barnes and Noble and showed him the nearest box set>"dad it's a trilogy there are 2 more"Still have that box set. Funny enough I went digging through the old VHS collection and found the Rankin/Bass Hobbit, which I knew I'd seen but didn't know we ownedMiss you dad, wish we could watch more kino together like we used to
>>215111845watching the beacons scene with that music on imax, awesome
>>215111845pretty good. i remember my friend was super psyched about us watching it in class and i had more fun listening to him describe it to me during recess than actually watching itappreciated the movie itself more over the years but two towers was the one that really gave me that special feeling. i don't like beginnings/endings
>>215111845i still havent seen it. probably should at some point
>>215112044After multiple pages of Tolkien blathering on about the grass and nettles and weeds and trees and bushes and other green shit, I gave it up
>>215115113Of the three movies it's the one that most feels like the books. Although my dude Tom and his bitch Goldberry are left out.
My dad took me out of school to see it. We read the books together when I was little. It was kino.
>>215111845i didnt watch it in 2002 but probably in like 4 or 5, when i was 10 or 11i was scared of moria the whole time. i was PETRIFIED of skeletons and corpses as a kid, so i just held a hand over my face and would close a finger over my eyes when there were skeletonsim pretty sure i liked the rest of the movie though because i wanted my dad to show me the rest
>>215111845Great, and then the sequel was one year later. Seeing how things work now I'm not so sure slavery was a bad idea.
It left such a profound mark in my psyche and formation as a kid (8 to 10) watching all 3 movies on the the cinema I'm pretty sure it was one of the main reasons/factors I was saved from becoming some godforsaken homo commie later in life and instead it turned me into a deeply reactionary paleolibertarian/catholic traditionalist monarchism kind of personLefties who watch these movies and/or read the book and ''like it'' didn't get it at all.
>>215115595>reactionary >paleolibertarian>catholic>traditionalist>monarchism
>>215115595
>>215113848And the culture and society still not being infected by woke shit in all its sectors and dimensions.
>>215115663>not being infected by woke shitThey literally made Arwen an action girl in the movie because her character in the books was too trad.
>>215112301I read that sentence wrong
>>215115619Tolkien himself said he considered his political views some kind of anarcho-monarchism.>>215115644that gif should mostly be used towards euphoric atheists tbqh fampai
>>215111845Still havent.What the fuck is it even?
>>215115689I rewatched it recently and realized I didn't remember any of the arwen scenes. I guess that explains why.
>>215115689I always felt that the whole Eowyn arc was kind of feminist-lite but that shit is literally in the book so I guess its ok.Arwen does feel like grrrl power shit too in the movies, tho still extremely light if compared to what we see nowadays.
>>215115595based
>>215111907mindblowingly shit
>>215112044>BUT MY TOM BOMBADIL>DID YOU KNOW ABOUT TOM BOMBADIL>NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT TOM BOMBADIL>WHY WASNT TOM BOMBADIL IN THE MOVIES>JACKSON IS A HACK FOR NOT INCLUDING TOM BOMBADIL>THE MOVIE WOULD HAVE BEEN 10 TIMES BETTER IF IT SPENT 40 MINUTES ON TOM BOMBADIL SINGING SONGS AND FUCKING TREES>MOVIEFAGS DONT KNOW ABOUT MY TOM BOMBADIL
>>215115595Holy fucking buzzwords man
>>215116008Eowyn's scenes went harder in the book."Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known.'Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!'A cold voice answered: 'Come not between a Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye.'A sword rang as it was drawn. 'Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.''Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!'Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. 'But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am,Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.'
>>215116098Nah, they skibidi ain't
>>215116085I don't think any real person is upset about the exclusion of Tom Bombadil. The problem is what Peter Jackson chose to include and either did not understand or willfully chose to try to "improve"Reminder that Return of the King was going to end with a swordfight between Aragorn and Sauron until the very last second lol
>>215116301kek
>>215116215SHAMONE!!!!!! EE-HEEE-EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
>>215113338I remember everybody cheering when that happened, it was so fucking badass. Helm's deep prelude and the entire fight was fucking awesome in theaters, you could feel the sense of tension everywhere.In ROTK, people cheering with the Rohirrim charge and in the fucking final fight everybody was silent. God I wish I could go back to those days...
>>215111845My father absolutely hates fantasy and is also constantly stoned since he was 20. My brother and I dragged him out of his history channel chair to watch this. He absolutely loved it and now sometimes will do his gollum impression if pressed. Thank you for reading my blog.
My friend keeps listening to the grey havens song on loop I'm starting to get worried
>>215116348>Rohirrim chargeI bet there is no cinematic experience that comes close to the absolute kino, thrill, glory and amazement that was felt seeing it for the first time in the movies. It was like the whole place became a unified egregore, like every single watcher was connected. Everyone cheered and got watered eyes together in unison. I felt like running head on towards a wall. Fucking 11/10 experience.
>>215116452Can you truly blame him? It is indeed a nice & comfy fucking song.
>>215111986Well mine didn't, you disingenuous fuck
>>215111845I don’t remember if I saw fellowship in a theater. I definitely saw return of the king because I remember struggling to hold my piss, since I didn’t want to miss anything. I didn’t fully appreciate the movies until years later. Fellowship especially is a masterpiece.
>>215111986If you had a DVD in your home by 2002, chances of you or your father/brother being massively gay are of about 87%. Saw this statistic in a documentary on the Discovery Channel back in 2010 or so.
May it beHow the fuck did they get enya to sing for q movie
>>215111845It was the first movie I rented on DVD, the difference to cassettes was night and day, the movie was very comfy
>>215111845I was a kid when my dad took me to the theaters to watch this. Needless to say I thought it was fucking boring and fell asleep. Watched it again about 5 years ago and finally got it, one of my favorite film series.
>>215116141Damn, it does go harder indeed. Had forgotten much about it, since last time I read LOTR was over a decade ago.
>>215111845Absolute fucking kino.Went in blind growing up on lotr. Soon as it cut to the real shots in the intro my older brother involuntarily said "holy shit.">in the land of Mordor>in the fires of Mount DoomHad goosebumps all through the intro and battle sequence.Will probably never have a cinematic experience like it again
>>215116465>the music as Theoden finishes his speech and begins leading the charge
>>215117637That scene also went harder in the book.“At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden!Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!With that he seized a great horn from Guthlaf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Eomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first eored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Theoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. his golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.”
>>215111845The best thing everThere are people who didn't know what we had in the 2000s, but I wasn't one of them, I knew we were experiencing the peak of virtually everything
I didn't watch fellowship in theaters. In highschool I thought it was gay as fuck, didn't know anything about the story, thought it was some dungeons and dragons stuff, more interested in athletics and drinking. Two towers came out and a few of my dork ass friends I quietly hung out with after school at night kept inviting me for weeks. I didn't have a date lined up the weekend it came out so I went with them, having no idea what was in store or anything about the story. Hearing the music and the opening scene over the mountains with the echos of gandalf and frodo yelling, then cut to the balrog standoff on the bridge gandalf falling frodo screaming then it cuts to gandalf following the balrog down to beat his ass with that musical score, I was fucking hooked, I didn't need to know anything about Lord of the rings, I knew it was something special and it changed my cultural world view instantly. Thanks for inviting me guys.
>>215111845I was a kid at '01. The beginning was a masterpiece, everything else was boring. I preferred Star Wars.Of course now that my brain hardened, Lord of the Rings was a very good series.>>215112044>Read 3 different songs after Boromir diedNo thank you. I think Jackson did a masterful adaptation of the trilogy.
The symphony in my city does a yearly screening of Lord of the rings and the orchestra plays the entire sound track during the ENTIRE FUCKING TRILOGY in one go. There's a wait list for years to get tickets each year. I managed to get in there once a few years ago and it amazes me that it still has such an impact that people go fucking bananas to cheer and hoot and holler in ecstasy over these two scenes >>215113338>>215116348 The symphony also has an amazing sound system so the thing fucking slaps for 10 hours.
>>215116506It's a very sad song for me
>>215111845great
>>215111845fell asleep in the theater. i was too young and dumb to appreciate it at the time and it was super long for a movie.
>>215111845Mindblowing. Lifechanging, even.
>>215117697
>>215117637>>215113338
>>215115230Wtf, LotR is actually very compact.>>215115595Based.My brain got rewired by LotR too (and Silmarillion to an extent).
just as boring then as it is nownearly fell asleep in the multiplex
Gandalf did not move. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.
>>215111845Fellowship was amazing. Two towers and ROTK were jacksonslop.
>>215115230Stop lying, you've never opened a book
>>215111907>Let's make this character who is an honorable badass warrior in the book into a fucking joke because that's what tolkien would want.
>>215116517>disingenuousHey retard, you’re not using that word correctly.
>Wait, that was the end?Everyone who saw it in the theater
>>215118936I, not knowing the books, stood half way up three times.
>>215111897You weren't even alive to experience life before 9/11. You technically aren't even human. 1996 here
>>215118695That whole scene with the witch king was kino in the book and garbage in the movie. He nerfed Gandalf too.
>>215112240when I saw this moment in the Cinema my heart rose in my chest and it was a religious experience, I'll never forget
When the black riders creep into the inn in Fellowship was one of the best horror sequences ever filmed.https://youtu.be/jCoBTitxFD8?t=100
>>215111874Used to get home from school(latchkey kid), put one of the trilogy in the VHS and be scared in broad daylight of Gollum, especially when he's not fully Gollum yet, and eat various pantry ingredients in lieu of food
>>215111845I want them to make a movie set in the Lord of the Rings setting. It takes place after the defeat of Sauron. Most orcs are hunted down and exterminated or enslaved. The plot focuses on a young orc girl. She is captured and sold into slavery. She hates humans and elves. But then she is sold to a young human master. He is very kind to her. He keeps her as a house maid, does not abuse her or use her for hard labor. And eventually she wants to pay back for his kindness with sex. She knows that she is not as pretty as human or elf girls and so she is really nervous and awkward. And some time later the orc girl has a wholesome relationship with her master and he makes her his wife. Because orc women are very fertile she gives birth to many human children.This is a romantic movie.I've been waiting for 5 years for them to make a movie like that.
>>215111845i remember we watched it in the theater for school for some reason. i think maybe the english teacher wanted to show tolkien. it was cool. i remember the sound during the cave troll bit in the mines was awesome, first time i'd heard it rendered like that. it was a great movie, very few low points.
>>215117697goddamn chills every time
>>215115689I'd agree if they had her show up in Helm's Deep instead of Haldir, but only that scene where she rides a horse is fine imo, she would be lighter as a woman and an elf.The alternative would have been to introduce Glorfindel for this one scene, and give the Arwen/Aragorn romance even less screentime.
>>215111897That age is 10 anon.
>>215120468Would Tolkien approve of such a movie?
no wonder we got 20 years of marvel and marvel styled movie making if lotr made you guys shid and coom your lil baby panties so hard.
>>215117697Why is Theoden so fucking kino?Half the good lines in Two Tower and RotK are his.
I didn't know shit about LoTR.We went there with a bunch of kids for a friend's birthday party.It made such an impression on me that I got the book and literally devoured it at such a rate that I had to force myself to only read one chapter per day.
>>215111845It was glorious, it was a great adaption of the source and had the feel of LotR right down to its core despite the numerous changes from the books. Directors don't make huge movies like this these days, they tend to film actors in front of green screens and add landscapes in post to create a false sense of scale. These films felt physically expansive as the scenery was real and part of the narrative.
>>215120424>and eat various pantry ingredients in lieu of foodProtip: Those are food, too
>>215121005Because the old decrepit former badass coming to life again trope is almost always awesome.
>>215111845I was still a kid so I was asking my dad a lot of questions during the movie
>>215121082Bro I'm talking syrup on a big spoon, a fistful of nib sugar, sucking on a piece of star anise, just wildin
>>215121165...and all of that is still food, anon
>>215111986I remember watching half of the dvds across multiple occasions with my mixed asian friend in his weird entrance hall area because that's where the tv was
>>215111845Lame. I'd been a fan of his movies like Dead Alive and Meet the Feebles for almost a decade so I was expecting at least a hint of that. But in general that year I was just basically seeing every single movie there was in the theaters. So I really didnt even go for any particular interest anyways.
>>215121203Fair enough, just sayin, I'd never give my kid that experience, it is not nostalgic at all, a hot pocket and a DS would have gone a long way
>>215111845the only thing i really remember about seeing it at the cinema is bursting to piss and having to rush out mid way, it really needed an intermission. I rewatched it on DVD so much that i really dont remember anymore about seeing it the first time than that.
>>215121413Get filtered, bladderlet
>>215111986no, they did not. around 2004 they did
>>215111845early 2000s was epic trilogy kino time: star wars + lord of the rings + matrixyou had to be there
>>215111897>Idk. I was born in 2002imagine not knowing life before the internet. analog tech, being able to play outside
>>215111845We were unbelievably shocked. Hollywood has always been mostly shit, and guaranteed to be shit when adapting well-liked books. Also, "Peter Jackson" was a name synonymous with shitty B-horror gross out flicks. Literally no one expected this movie to be anything beyond "well ok", and it was amazing.LotR and Fight Club are the only two times in film and TV history that "based on a book" isn't guaranteed to suck.>basically we were expecting what happened in Jackson's The Hobbit movies.
>>215121413That got easier the more Gollum scenes there were, since they were all bad.
>>215121458Prequels were fucking garbage. Literally no one born in the 20th century enjoys them. Kids don't count bcuz kids like anything you shove down their throats.
>>215121372They were once men.
>>215121522>Prequels were fucking garbage. Literally no one born in the 20th century enjoys themKeep telling yourself that. By the way, reddit is down the hall to the left
>>215119130I was raised on the RB cartoons, and then read the books, so literally everything about the Battle of Minas Tirith pisses me off.>ruined Denethor>ruined the EPIC Gandalf vs Witch King standoff>ruined the "black sails" plot twist and Aragon's entire journey>King Theoden doing the Return of the Jedi death speech for no reason>Witch King being as threatening as a wet fart>Minas Tirith cleaned up by glowing green soap bubbles The cartoon wasn't great but it did some things better.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x6De3KgUO4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srZziu3TF9s>kino soundtrack too by the Frosted Flakes tiger guy
>>215121511>what is The Godfather>what is Jurassic Park
>>215121522Prequels are better. Virgin hero journey versus chad tragedy
>>215111845It was fucking awesome. I think I saw a teaser for it as early as The Matrix, promising one every Christmas for three years in a row.
>>215121643nah, you dumb.
>>215115595>>215116098this is what too much internet does to a retard.
>>2151119862004 when more people were getting ps2 and DVD players were down to a hundred bucks.
>>215121643>Fart Fart Binks is GOOD>Wooden lifeless dialogue is GOOD>Rave Glowstick epilepsy is GOODThanks for proving my point zoomie.
>>215112044I've tried the 40 hour audiobooks, and the fucking songs are terrible. The guy sings them all really the same way, and there are so damn many of them.
>>215113338This. I didn't catch the first movie until DVD, but this was rad on the big screen after 4-5 beers and some rips of that good 2002 blueberry strain.
>>215121689>t. I was always more of a "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" guy anyway
>>215121638>book is FAR superior>book is FAR superiorMovies adapted from books are for illiterate niggers who can't read, regardless of skin color, people who refuse to read books ARE niggers. Movies are made from books so the nigger can pretend he's experienced the story and feel "normal" and "smart".That's why we were surprised when LotR didn't suck.
>>215111845I feel like I must have seen the first one on like vhs or dvd or something. I know I saw RotK in theaters, but I don't think I saw fellowship in theaters
>>215111845It was amazing. I was reading the Harry Potter books over and over again at the time, but after I've seen The Fellowship of the Ring at the cinema right before Christmas I got all the LOTR books that Christmas and for the next few years LOTR, Warcraft 3, hockey and football was basically the only things I cared about.
>>215121511>>215121638>>215121725the lotr books are better than the films. jackson added a bunch of retarded shit
>>215115663Oh fuck off with that.
>>215112567So much this, 3 hours gone like nothing.By the third film it had already become a nice christmas tradition
>>215116260What "problem"? No one was disappointed by the movies. Book nerds have never been so satisfied.
>>215121689Rob Inglis, from the 1990s. I have a self-edited version that cuts out all the songs and the "Gollum voice" parts, so it's otherwise okay.It's hard to believe for zoomies but even in the 1990's LotR was considered semi-obscure nerd shit. So the audiobook and the BBC radio play were made on shoestring budgets. Phil Dragash's version is slightly better, and Andy Serkis did one but I haven't heard it.
>>215121372yeah, no shit, he was written by a well off english catholic who was born in south africa in 1892
>>215121725See, this is how I know you're a fucking retard who has no idea what he is talking about, or what he wrote in his own post.You wrote "guaranteed to suck". So according to you Jurassic Park and The Godfather are both bad movies.AND you are saying that the Godfather book is better than the movie, which you wouldn't say if you actually read it. The Godfather movie is a much better movie than the Godfather book is a book.Unless you're some degenerate who enjoys reading about the adventures of the girl with the big pussy and Johnny Fontane's Hollywood antics.As for Jurassic Park, it's more subjective. I enjoyed the book a lot, but I wouldn't say it's "far" superior, but it's different and anyone with a non-brown IQ will understand that for making a movie you can't just adapt the book 1:1. In other words, Jurassic Park didn't really lose anything in the adaptation, unlike e.g. Blade Runner, which completely raped the book and if Scott didn't have a bunch of tardwranglers it would have probably raped it even more.YOU FUCKING RETARD!
>>215121522This. We watched them, but they didn't have the magic. It was like going through the motions; you watched new Star Wars expecting at some point it's going to find the sweet spot. You talked to friends about how awesome the CGI was because there's nothing else to praise. There movies were boring and stupid aside from being eye candy. They succeeded off of the goodwill supplied by the oridge tridge.
>>215121522just say you're filtered by epicness and be done with it
>>215111897Do you need help changing your big boy diapers, son?
>>215121796It was super obscure. Some hippies in my town named their kids Bilbo and Frodo and no one knew the reference. My friends in middle school were all into the Sword of Shannara and that series of books and we'd never even associated it with Lord of the Rings. I kind of vaguely knew of the cartoon and the Hobbit cartoon, but thought it was the same thing. The movies kind of came out of nowhere for a lot of us. Without the internet there were pockets of stuff and you may be completely unaware of something.
>>215111845It was amazing. I was half afraid it would have been a complete travesty, but it ended up delivering and then some. The trilogy as a whole is some of the best times I've had in a theater.
>>215111845>2001, fellowship of the ringi didn't understand shit>2002, the two towerseverybody jumped on the sit at legolas jump on the horse's back>2003, return of the kingfell asleep
It was good. In 6th grade we had two different teachers, a dude and a woman.Around the end of the year she had the class watch Pagemaster and said only G rated shit, the cigarette smoking dude rolled in the CRT television and put on LOTR. Light vs Dark, Good vs Evil. Ugly orcs getting impaled and falling in waves before a volley of arrows. Abomination ring wraiths riding spikey death horses like they're straight outta the apocalypse. Magic rings and a sick ass wizard, demons from the mines & octopus monstersBut at least the modern day equivalent of an LGBTQIA+ woman teacher tried to emasculate us with the page-master, get shat on by a master ring forged in secret BITCH ;)
>>215112935nice broi was like 10 and it was intense i still remember the cinema, walking up the carpeted stairs with my slurpee, dad making sure we had been to the toilet and that we had our brown paper bags of mixed lollies hidden.thanks dad.im gonna call him tomorrow.
>>215121458>early 2000s was epic trilogy kino time: star wars + lord of the rings + matrixSo true. And all of them had epic DVD sets full of bonus features.
amazingit was snowing that day and me and the boys had a snowball fight after the movie
>>215111986Gonna have to agree with the 2004 anons. I remember watching RotK in both vhs and then dvd. By 2005 dvd was already the norm
>>215119212Them walking by so smoothly with all the swords at the same hight is so kinoThe wide shots, of Gandalf falling into the mountain lake with the balrog, of the landscapes, of the armies, all were absolutely stunning in theaters. Arguably were all looking to relive it. What we end up with is tron ares
>>215112044The books and the movie are stupid fantasy bullshit or the worst kind. kys Tolkienfags.
>>215111897>2002Whats up zoomie?
I was 11 when I saw The Two Towers in a theater. Didn't know what the fuck was going on, I don't think I saw the Fellowship before.Seeing he battle of Helm's Deep is still the single best experience I have ever had.
>>215121613Denethor is whatever, but the Witch King and Army of the Dead are two major missteps which is why I think RoTK is the weakest of the three films.
>>215111845I think I watched it in 2002 or 2003it was a beautiful experience, by the trailer itself I was hookedespecially that was in the day where everything simpler
honest opinion, usually when confronted by a new type of film you never seen before its almost a new cinematic language you need to learn.So at the time on first watch it felt a bit weird. Like the lore aspects were like...okayand then the actions scenes are what pushed the movie.It wasnt until rewatches that you really appreciated the atmopshere and the uniquness of it
I watched it on a pirate DVD where the whole film was tinted red. Not just the grading shifted to the warm side, but completely red.
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001):Tom Bombadil omitted entirely from the story.Arwen’s role expanded, taking on parts of Glorfindel’s actions from the book.The timeline compressed – events that take months in the book happen over days in the film.The Two Towers (2002):The Ents’ storyline changed – Treebeard initiates the attack on Isengard earlier and with more urgency.Faramir’s character altered – he briefly considers taking the Ring, unlike his noble depiction in the book.Battle of Helm’s Deep heightened with added battle drama and cinematic sequences not described in detail in the book.The Return of the King (2003):The scouring of the Shire omitted – the books end with Frodo and friends cleansing the Shire of Saruman, which the films skip.Arwen’s storyline given a romantic arc and more screen presence, especially regarding the coronation.Denethor’s death dramatized – in the book, he doesn’t attempt to burn himself and Faramir alive in the same way.
>>215113338This opening goes hard.
Fellowship of the Ring dazzles with scenery and spectacle, yet beneath the grandeur, it’s a bloated march of exposition. Characters glimmer but rarely breathe; pacing drags under the weight of Tolkien worship. Magic feels earned more by cinematography than narrative, leaving the story hollow where wonder should live.
>>215115595Lotr is alpha male hypno
>>215112044I am currently on a reread.I forgot how good Three is Company is and I really liked Gildor.
Amazing. I was 11 at the time and saw it in the cinema.
I missed Fellowship in theaters. I think it was for the better because I was still reading it for tje first time and I believe it would have tarnished the experience.I saw it when it came to DVD and saw the rest in theaters. It was for the better since I was able to keep pace ahead of the films. I think i was halfway through Return by the time Towers was out.
>>215120424Are you me?
>>215116348>>215116465Theoden's speech always makes me tear up brosIt's just so beautiful and tragic>Ride to ruin and the world's endingAnd now he's gone brosNo more kinos
Theatre was packed. With families. White families. Everyone was quite, polite, and well behaved. It was a wonderous and fun experience that we will never get again and young people will never experience. Sad, really.An elegant reminder, of a more civilized age.
>>215111845Rented it from blockbuster when i was 10. Honestly, we thought it was boring and a bit dense. We'd never really seen a fantasy movie like that, and i think it was alot to take in for a friday night rental.Its kind of interesting that back then you could just rent something like lotr without knowing what it was. I feel like now people watch things knowing exactly what they're going to getEnded up reading the books and watching the movies later on as a young man and liking them.
>>215111845I never forget the description my older brother made about the movie when he saw it on the theater. I was just a little kid and had never heard about LOTR btw, just that the movie was popular.I asked him "what is the movie about?"And he said: "it's about some guys who have to go to a mountain to destroy a ring. The movie ends before they get there"I remember something controversial at the time was how long the movie was. I thought it was absurd. "A three hour long movie that doesnt even have an ending?" lmao
>>215111986Maybe in the US anon, but most posters here are brazilians :)
>>215111845I saw it when I was 10 and I thought it was boring.I still think its kind of boring and the movies really don't pick up until Two Towers.
>>215121497Curiously, they won't respond to that.
Pure kino. When the return on the king came out there was a marathon with the first 2 movies in the evening and then return of the king started at midnight. Best cinema experience of my life. People were dressed up like nazguls and elves.
>>215112044The books and better but the movies are alright. Especially Fellowship.>>215115230People always meme with this bullshit. Unlike you I actually read it and was surprised it was nothing like that.
>>215111845The Hobbit did it better
>>215124452Back in my day, trolling meant something
>>215124452One of the worst movies ever
I read the books in the mid-90s: it sounds corny but they helped during my teen years where i was very lonely (still is but wtvv). Watching the films was amazing, i feel very blessed watching such superb adaptations,- the movies didn't betrayed the books too much (even back then people were worried about hollywood meddling)- they nicely used the best visuals associated with the publications (alan lee' designs are essential to jackson films' appeal)- good vfx (I felt blessed when also witnessing the matrix films, independance days etc: it was clear the technology was evolving and that CGI was a revolutionary game-changer for blockbusters)- stellar cast- the hype amongst fans was huge: for years, we saw image previews and news, we knew something great was coming
>>215124969>good vfxSomething that people may not appreciate now is how many of the effects in these movies were practical. Tons of models, stop motion, extras, etc. That's why it looks so good, and why the parts that are full cgi look so dated now.
>>215124452>Watching the film>Expect the elves to use bows while the shieldwall holds>This retarded faggot shit happens>Stop watching
>>215111845I had never heard of it when I first saw it. It sucked for me, didn't understand shit about it until years later I found the Bilbo book while working. Read it the same evening. And holy manoly! You know the rest. In the movie, Souron, it would have been safer for him if he'd had the one ring to rule tham all as a penisring under some armor
>>215124452hobbit was cgi slop
>>215111845Some guy yelled out "puff puff pass nigga!" when gandalf starts smoking and everyone in the theater cracked up.
>>215111986My dad luckily was into hifi-stuff so we got the dvd, cranked up the surround shit and watched it with the family. I still remember my mom going "eww" when the first orc face came to screen in the intro lol.Though l wish I had seen it in theater on the first time. Only went to see RotK and it was the tits. I went to see the extended Fellowship this year and god damn it was epic. The music absolutely deserved an oscar. When the ending with Enya came, I was in peace. Had a big breakup with my ex at the end of last year and after that movie I felt alright for the first time in like a year. I highly recommend going if the extended versions are in kinos near you.
>>215111845no idea why but my town gave a shit about lotr and in the cinema we were maybe 10 people.it was really nice
I saw the fellowship at the cinema with some friends. I was around 15 years old. I remember one of my pals sayin it was mid and he was looking forward to the two towers since it had more action. I also remember I drank a 2l cola to it and had to run to the bathroom during the balrog-scene. I think I thought it was better than I had hoped.
I was about 2-3 years old when my uncle told my parents he'd have me watch tolkien. My parents left me with him for 4 hours. I've never forgiven them since.
>>215125716How was the game of cave explorer?
>>215125716How was the game of hide the hoagie?
>>215111845Lotr movies were the only ones I went to where there was so much clapping when the movie ended. Especially rotk. Amazing experiences tho arching them.
>>215125739>>215125843no, you sick pervets, I didn't mean it like that. it was just I found the movie boring and it made me dislike fantasy for so long so I skipped Harry Potter and only read them when I was adult and then realized what I had missed
I remember reading the series just prior to Fellowship being released, and being absolutely disappointed in Aragon's casting. Felt Viggo was the only actor who didn't fit the mental image I had of the characters from the books.Ironically, now I can't imagine Aragon being played by anyone else.
>>215126110>so I skipped Harry Potter and only read them when I was adult and then realized what I had missedHarry Potter is hardly an example of good writing. JK Rowling's best work is on Twitter.
>>215126197Movie Aragorn really was a completely different character from book Aragorn. Jackson made him the classic reluctant hero for the sake of the narrative. In the books he's been waiting decades to claim the crown of Gondor (and claim that sweet elfussy) and that's his main goal along with escorting Frodo.I get why Jackson turned a lot of the characters into archetypes but I'm not really happy with some of them. Aragorn's OK, the conflict is more compelling. But in the book Gandalf was a boss, Theoden didn't run, Gimli was thoughtful and eloquent, Faramir was incorruptible, Merry and Pippin weren't dumbasses, the Ents were angry from the jump, etc.
why isn't aragorn a nigger?
>>215126963cause he's not dating your mom
>>215121613It even has Black Speech subtitles!
>>215111845it was inspiring. I was in 6th grade and every single boy and girl at school saw it in theaters and we all talked about it non-stop. We pretended to be Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli on the playgrounds and we bought action figures and daydreamed about fantasy adventures.My brothers and I would run around in the yard after a big snow with sword sized sticks fighting invisible orcs, bundled up in our snow pants and snow jackets, we'd slash the snow into the air with our sticks and pretend it was blood.As kids we'd be inspired by movies and then invent a million stories of our own we'd play together outside. I would come up with the story and my character and my little brother and cousins would be like players in my D&D game and I would explain the scenarios to them and we'd battle monsters and orcs and explore new lands and find powerful weapons... it was a wonderful time.
>>215124452I don't think I've ever felt as much second-hand embarrassment in the cinema as back when I watched this dogshit movie. I missed a lot of scenes because I facepalmed so much
>>215111845I was 14 and didnt have a clear idea of what the movie was about. I fell asleep for a decent part of the run time
>>215111897oh shit a little kid
>>215111845Honestly, life changing. My mom was a huge fan of the books growing up, and she took my siblings and I out of school early that day to see it. I had only a vague idea of what I was seeing, and I had seen the trailer and it looked like an epic fantasy adventure, something I hadn't seen before.The prologue was amazing, gave me chills and really set the entire mood. But the scene that made me really realize how profound what I was watching was, was when the music swells and plays the triumphant fellowship theme after Aragorn and Frodo make it across the falling steps to the rest of the fellowship. That entire Moria sequence with the battle and Gandalf's death remains one of the best "roller coaster" tension building, release, build, release scenes of any movie, and remains my favorite LOTR film.
I wish I actually remembered my specific reaction to the movie itself, but in 2001 I was 12. I know I loved the movie, because I went on to get the special edition VHS for Fellowship, and then the DVD for Two Towers, but I don't remember my specific moment in the theater seeing it. I did go on to read the book (I had a one-volume copy that had a picture of the Nazgul from the Fellowship on the cover), so all in all it was a huge deal for me, I just wish I could remember the actual theater moment.
>>215111845https://youtu.be/wJXJQfR0oOw?list=RDwJXJQfR0oOw
>>215121497Is it really their fault we flooded the country with spics
>>215111845sorry to tell you this OP, but you'll never experience these feels.
>>215111845It was me watching my dad snore the whole time while holding my ears 15 minutes after it started. This movie holds the record for putting my dad to sleep the fastest. Barely made it out of the opening credits.
>>215129654Your dad is a pussy
>>215129494Have you tried Sloppy Toppy.'s Pizza?"Pizza sauce all over your face..."
>>215129682yeah he was, a major pussy cause he likes LOR
>>215111845It was awesome. Watched it at the cinema with a friend after recommending him to read Tolkien.
If you are a zoomer, you can picture it like this:It was like Endgame, but for the 3 movies, and your dad was innit with you.
>>215111845Watched the first two moives on DVD when I was 9, and watched Return of The King in the kinoplex. I will never forget watching the charge of the Rohirim.
>>215111845It was kinoI was 10 and my dad took me to see it in the kinoplex and I loved it
>>215111845tedious. 3 hours of fucking fairytale bullshit,even at 16 I was too old for that stupid shitcan't understand how this nerdy dungeons and dragons bullshit ever caught on to the general public, anyone into this childish shit was mocked and bullied, and then these movies come out and all of a sudden everyone is into elves and dwarves lmao. another case of gatekeeping being good, and nerds, being the spineless pushovers they are, fondled the ball hard with this series
>>215129893Zoomers didn't watch the MCU, gramps.
>>215121522I was a kid and loved the prequelsPodracing go brrrForce push go wooshLaz0r swords go btzzztbzzztpsssshhhh
i got a headache because of all the weird swirly panning birds eye shots
>>215129654Same guy as >>215129986I went to watch it with my older brother (the one who showed me the dvds) and my parents, they didnt understand shit as they did not watch the previous movies but dad found Gollum hilarious.Even now, 22 years later he sometimes says "my lord frodo" in a squeaky voice.
>>215111845It looked like an advanced video game then whereas it looks like an aged video game now.
>>215115595The right wing has gone 180 to just being tumblr a decade ago.
>>215130187>Bololy going where no one has gone before
suck my bololy
>>215115595>paleolibertarian/catholic traditionalist monarchismWhat?
>>215111845I remember I went with my cousin and my mom to see it in 2001, when the credits rolled and we stood up my cousin turned to me and said "That was fucking gay."
>>215130410It means vaporwave edits of renaissance statues on twitter.
>>215130377The fuck you said to me, you fucking piece of bololy?
>>215130410Meme ideologies that don't have to deal with the practicalities of actually being in power because they aren't serious, fwiw
>>215115595>reactionary paleolibertarian/catholic traditionalist monarchismI really want to believe this is bait but this site is so fucking stupid these days that it might not be
>>215124201LOL!!!!!
>>215121949Nah fuck you, Pagemaster is kino and so is LOTR
>>215111845I had already read the books, so it felt a little Hollywood, but it was still good plus I was a young teen and easily impressed, the next two films weren't quite as good.
>>215111845I don't really remember but somehow I remember watching the trailer for it in the Cinema and being hyped. I didn't know of LotR before the trailer. It reminded me of Baldur's Gate which I played on PC. I remember watching Return of the King well enough at least. Getting old and forgetting stuff sucks.
>>215123122>The Fellowship of the Ring (2001):>Tom Bombadil omitted entirely from the story.Bad>Arwen’s role expanded, taking on parts of Glorfindel’s actions from the book.Very bad>The timeline compressed – events that take months in the book happen over days in the film.Good for the sake of the film's pacing. Same deal for the ages of the likes of Frodo. Wasn't he 60 or so? Nobody would care.>The Two Towers (2002):>The Ents’ storyline changed – Treebeard initiates the attack on Isengard earlier and with more urgency.Same as above, good for the pacing of the movies>Faramir’s character altered – he briefly considers taking the Ring, unlike his noble depiction in the book.Very bad>Battle of Helm’s Deep heightened with added battle drama and cinematic sequences not described in detail in the book.Both good and bad. Obviously it made for an epic battle and cemented itself as one of the best siege scenes, while also reinforcing the theme of how evil in LOTR is an absolute force and all other beings need to gather together - which is also why I'm willing to forgive Aldir and the elves being asspulled in. Bad because obviously it's all headcanon stuff.>The Return of the King (2003):>The scouring of the Shire omitted – the books end with Frodo and friends cleansing the Shire of Saruman, which the films skip.Bad, but it would have felt anti-climatic and perhaps even shoehorned to have "the Big Bad" defeated and then having an emergency situation back home so I understand why it was omitted.>Arwen’s storyline given a romantic arc and more screen presence, especially regarding the coronation.Bad. As is Eowin's being turned into a Le Badass Girlboss instead of a faithful and prideful woman of Rohan defending his kin and king.>Denethor’s death dramatized – in the book, he doesn’t attempt to burn himself and Faramir alive in the same way.I liked the scenes, but I have to be honest and admit I don't remember much of book!Denethor.
>>215113338bollywood tier
>>215113338>approaches sword>ShhhhHHHHHIINK!Absolutely cinematic
>>215131243>I don't remember much of book!Denethor.Denethor in the book tries to burn himself and Faramir pretty much the same way. Only in the book, his guard holds off the servants with the torches, Gandalf grabs Faramir, and then Denethor burns to death on the pyre after revealing he'd spent months gooning with the lost palantir.I don't think the movies fucked with his character all that much. I guess they didn't make him seem as wise or imposing as he was in the books, and they didn't bring up the palantir poisoning his mind. But for the story that's not hugely relevant.
>>215111845I was born in 1996 so gollum scared me, especially the part where he was tortured. We got it from blockbuster when it was the new movie that covered a wall
>>215115595dude, get off 4chan for a whileyou're getting the buzzwordism
>>215125528I did see the extended rerelease and the audience completely ruined it. They cheered nonstop at every stupid scene. They even cheered when Figwig showed up midway through the third film. Fuck fandom culture.
>>215112044The Hobbit book is by far the best thing Tolkien ever did.
>>215111845It was gangsta
>>215111845Nunca fui fan, así que no lo disfrute como debia cuando lo vi por primera vez. Solo pude entender que tan buena era tiene ver El Hobbit.
>>215132620>But for the story that's not hugely relevant.Huh I disagree after reading your postI think it was better that way, like it was poisoned like Theoden, but gandalf couldn't get there in timeI think that's better than "he's an asshole and oh wait he huh remembers he has a kid maybe when he's burning"
>>215111986my dvd copys are all fullscreen versions, they will prolly be worth something someday eh im guessing, widescreen stuff even back then didnt add anything to the left and right of the screen to make it worth italso widescreen on a crt tv looked like shiti think i saw the 3rd movie in theaters maybe even the second, way to long ago to even recall, i know i didnt see the first in theathers
>>215135133There's a lot of stuff in LOTR that's interesting but doesn't really drive the main plot. I can see why a lot of the details got cut. Like Theoden was a chill old dude who got overcome by listening to his corrupted advisor. Denethor was a powerful, arrogant man who thought he could match wills with Sauron and got his brain fried instead.
>>215136228Also Denethor wouldn't have suffered letting anyone try and save him. He thought he knew better than Gandalf in the end.
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>>215136228>>215136241whatever people say, I'm glad they cut scouring of the shire, and add the elf squad to helm's deepI think those two elevates the tolkien work x10000
>>215111845it had been hyped for a few years in magazines, and i had read the books and been bored to tears by them, so i didn't care muchthen people told me it was good, and that fucking intro blew my fucking mind, and how the scenes with the crazy camera angles, the lighting, the sound design, the slow mo, the props, everything in it felt revolutionary. i had to watch it in parts and take breaks to process what i was watching. never felt that about a movie ever since, maybe it hit me at the right age and as movies were changing from practical to cgi, from film to digital cameras, but they still had the movie magic that today's movies lack2nd and 3rd movie are inferior but still alright, 2nd has greatness with the rohan bits
>>215111845Most boring POS movie I've ever seen. Do not get the hype at all.
>>215119145What the fuck, you are gay as hell. The cinematography is not even good, how does that overwrought CGI crap elicit any emotion from you? Must be an animefag.
>>215111845>When I watched for the first time, Gollum, the uruk hais and that cursed swamp scared the living shit out of me. Thw scene of gollum eating the rabbit messed me up and the secondary duo riding along with the uruk hais scared me to. For some reason, I loved that other scene where they are carried away by that tree spirit
