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Seeing this in a theater must have been beautiful, magical

posted 9 years ago by flowerythethird
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I wouldn't be able to get it out of my head for weeks if I saw it for the first time on a big screen!!!!!!!!!

I saw it on VHS about a year or so after it came out. But getting to follow the story, and see Middle-Earth in all it's beauty, with a good crowd would have been an all-time great moment in my life. If you had this moment, DON'T take it for granted! You were part of something special.

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[–] MyCousinMose (86) 7 years ago

I saw the Fellowship 3 times in theaters, it was as epic as you imagine.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Ironically, I went into FOTR in the cinema in 2001 hot off my absolute OBSESSION with Harry Potter only one month before, and it tried to colour my expectations of LOTR, but they were both great fantasy movies, LOTR more so, especially when the others appeared. True, my Potter obsession took a couple of years to die down, but by then LOTR had won out. I LOVED ROTK!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

It was. I got misty when you first see The Shire. Jackson captured Hobbiton perfectly.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14484) 6 years ago

Well.....it was a very powerful and exhilarating experience, but I had some problems the first time I watched it. I went with grandpa to one theater, and my family went to another, and I felt very alone in the seats. To make matters worse, they turned up the sound too high, so the sound of the shrieking Ringwraiths cut into my ears when Frodo and his buddies were being chased.

It was better the second time around, considering the sound was lower, and I had my family with me. After that, we all went together to the other two LOTR films and the Hobbit movies.

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 5 years ago

I was 12 when I first read the books, so the story's been in my head a long time.

It was definitely an epic experience - and I wasn't able to get it out of my head for weeks, so the OP's got that absolutely right.

More than that, though, I was struck by how "complete" the story felt. I knew there were two more films coming, and of course I'd read LotR many times myself. But I thought then and still do think that this film could stand on its own as the story of the "fellowship" itself, how it formed, how it fared, and how it ended.

Obviously I'm in a minority ... there were actual annoyed sighs from people in the theater who, apparently, didn't know that this was the first of three movies and only part of a greater storyline. Oh well.

[–] Rocky15 (509) 5 years ago

Best cinema experience I’ve had, I knew nothing about the story as I’d never read the books and none of it had been spoiled for me.

I was blown away by what I saw.