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Title: An awesome movie, but...
Review: Critics everywhere have heralded Jackson's Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring as a visual masterpiece. And truly, it is. The sets are wonderfully done, every detail is there. The movie stays very true to the book, except for a few understandable omissions (the Old Forest and Tom Bombadil) and Arwen's role is considerably more important. The actors fit perfectly in their characters. I cannot help but quote Orlando Bloom who said he always believed elves "moved like alert cats". So why is there a but? Let me just say that, aside from the movie, the extra material in this DVD fall short of my expectations. I wonder why the New Line company had to make three different DVD versions of this film, when two could have sufficed. All in all, I believe that the edited scenes are cruelly absent in this version, and that I regret not waiting for the special edition DVD. If you're still hesitating on which DVD to buy, be more patient than I was and wait til November.
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