From: immortal683
Just wanted to inform you folks at TheOneRing.net that “Lord of the Rings” has won the Rotten Tomato Award with 100+ Fresh reviews and 96% on the Tomatometer! Congratulations LOTR!
Barely edging out Shrek , Monsters, Inc. would have been the winner of this year’s RT Award if not for one movie. The best-reviewed movie of 2001 and the winner of the Third Annual RT Awards is Peter Jackson’s phenomenal adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. From its impeccable casting to its breath-taking cinematography, The Fellowship of the Ring is a far cry from the 1978 animated version. It’s a minor miracle that after sitting nearly three hours with the movie, patrons are left wanting more. Really, this is a triumph for director Peter Jackson and his crew for proving wrong the pundits who said the trilogy was too ambitious of a project. Congrats go out to everyone involved with The Fellowship of the Ring. We’ll be eagerly awaiting The Two Towers.
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Ringer Spy Frodo’s Girl sends along her 11th report from New Zealand! [More]
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Ringer Spy Valarie sends along her report directly from the SAQ awards in LA where she got the chance to meet most of the cast and take some great photos! [More]
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Lynne writes: I Have just heard directly from Odeon UK one of the biggest cinema chains here in the UK regarding the footage of TTt as mentioned by Peter Jackson rumoured to be added on 29th March. Signed by Matt at their Customer Info line he states “Sadly we do not have any date.It will be dependent on the film distributor(Entertainment Film) when they decide to release in the UK. Sorry we cannot be more helpful.”
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Sir Ian McKellen told a gathering in Beverly Hills Monday that some of his Oscar-nominated acting as Gandalf in “The Fellowship of the ring” was pure imagination. [More]
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From: Kansas City Star:
Sir Ian McKellen told a gathering in Beverly Hills Monday that some of his Oscar-nominated acting as Gandalf in “The Fellowship of the ring” was pure imagination.
Take that scene where Gandalf confronts Balrog on the bridge and yells “You shall not pass!” McKellen said he was actually shouting at a green tennis ball that was standing in for a special effect to be added later. To get into mood, he thought of the worst monster he could imagine. Hitler.
Later, according to the L.A-based column Spywitness, when Gandalf tumbles into the abyss after defeating the demon, the wizard looks directly at Frodo, who’s trying to come to his friend’s aid. His blazing blue eyes are filled with love, sorrow and longing as he shouts, “Fly you fools!”
“In the movie, Gandalf is looking at Frodo, but I was looking at (a former lover he broke up with back in 1972),” McKellen said. “Is that method acting? I don’t know. But I know it looks good on the screen.”
McKellen will appear on “Saturday Night Live” this week.
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