Lord of the Rings, The: Book I - The Return of the Shadow

Review by Varilion — February 14, 2009 @ 1:24 pm

*This rating was given before reviews were required*

Review by TMBTM — February 7, 2009 @ 10:11 pm

5/5 to me. But I think it is because the Tolkien angle fits good for this first part (the suspens about what happened to Gandalf and the nice cliffhanger, for exemple)
I wonder how will look the following edits…
Technicaly I did not notice anything wrong. Great job!

Review by Sunarep — March 8, 2009 @ 1:51 pm

A very good edit, this is what fanediting is all about, taking us to a familiar movie but with an all new spin,

The flow of the edit is very good, the progress of the story from happy Shire, to Gandalf uncovering the truth (great place to put in the flashback) to Bree, Nazgul and so on and so forth, the only tiny problem might be the Gollum part, because we as the audience don’t know about Gollum – perhaps it would be possible to rearrange a few of Gandalf’s lines and add Gollum finding the ring and Bilbo getting it to the Isildur story? – just a thought

I am really looking forward to the rest.

10/10

Review by buddythegoon — February 5, 2009 @ 7:43 am

Ditto from what white43 said. I am amazed at how much better it is by the mere cutting of Liv Tyler’s lines. Many of the other edits to this movie were total hackjobs, yet this one seems to be put together seamlessly, especially the ending scene at the Ford of Bruinen. I also appreciated the incorporation of material from the theatrical version at the beginning. I wish more people would vote. It would be a travesty if this one does not win the prize this month.

Review by white43 — January 29, 2009 @ 3:04 pm

Just finished watching this and I have to say I’m impressed.

The new titles and Christopher Lee reading out the ring verse is impressive, this was blended perfectly into the start – well done – it looks very professional.

Now I have to say, this is so seemless, that I didn’t even notice things missing until like the last ten minutes. Even then it was because I remembered things were missing – not that I’d noticed. The sound, picture and editing are simply flawless.

Even your added bit of subtitle matches the other perfectly – I thought it was original – in fact, I had to read your list of edits to notice what had been cut as I noticed nothing!!!!

Fade and end credit – really professional looking.

If this is the taste of things to come with this edit – I’ll be the first in line.

5/5 easy. Well done Kerr.