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Title: this review actually refers to the VHS...
Review: ok. i bought Lord of the Rings on VHS because the movie was magnificent and i did not at the time have a DVD player. Big mistake. The film to tape transfer is terrible and the special effects that in the film were vivid and realistic now look cheap and poorly done. The Riders in the scene with the water horses look like paper cut outs and even the opening sign that says "Lord of the Rings" looks like dull plastic. If you enjoyed to film for the special effects, do not buy this VHS tape. Maybe if you never saw it in the theater or on DVD you wouldn't notice, but overall it is not worth it. It's like they made the VHS crappy on purpose so people would buy the DVD. Now I have a DVD player, and Lord of the Rings on DVD, and am very pleased. But the VHS is a dulled down version that shames the intricacies of the creative process behind the film.
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