The Reel Rejects - THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

Episode Date: November 24, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ The Saga BEGINS as Roxy Striar & Tara Erickson embark on one of the most landmark cinematic and literary epics, giving their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the first film in the trilogy - adapted from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and directed by Peter Jackson (King Kong, Dead Alive, The Hobbit)! Fellowship of the Ring introduces us to Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins, Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey, Viggo Mortensen as Strider / Aragron, Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee, Andy Serkis as Gollum / Smeagol, Hugo Weaving as Elrond, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, John Rhys-Davies as Gimli, Dominic Monaghan & Billy Boyd as Merry & Pippin, Sean Bean as Boromir, Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins, Liv Tyler as Arwen, Christopher Lee as Saruman the White, & MORE!! Roxy and Tara REACT To all the Best Scenes & Most EPIC Moments including the Fellowship Assembles Scene, You Shall Not Pass! Scene, Arwen Rescues Frodo Scene, Gandalf vs. Saruman Scene, The Cave Troll Scene, Bilbo Disappears Scene, Sam Goes With Frodo Scene, & Beyond! Follow Roxy Striar YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhirlGirls Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxystriar/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/roxystriar Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Is there anything else that I've missed to tell the people? No, I'm just, I'm excited. This is going to be a thing. This is a thing. Yeah, this is a thing. This is a thing. And I'm excited. It's going to be a wild ride. Hold on to your... Hold on to your birds. Go into possibly Middle Earth.

Can I tell you something? Yeah. We just launched the Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship. of the ring and I did not remember one single second of that movie. I think I was just, I must have just been too young to like, yeah, because what year did you say it came out? 2001. Okay, so I saw it in 2001, one time I was 10 years old.

Oh, wow. So I didn't remember anything at all any part of it. That was like, yeah, I was 10 and I don't think it hit me the same way. Like, I just remember thinking like, ooh, elves or whatever. like I didn't it just didn't like affect me the way that this just did I can't believe by the end of the movie I was I think you were too tearing up yeah that was beautiful yeah it was especially in the flashback of Gandalf who you know runs as like almost a father substitute throughout this journey when he's you know thinks back on what he told him just just use the time that

you've been given that's what really got to that's what that's what I really felt I I I I agree as people who have lost people that post, that's all you have. And when somebody is gone, all you can have are those memories and the things that you told, they told you and the lessons you take from them and the life you try to live for them. And that's what we see in that moment. And then I love the juxtaposition of like, okay, I'm just going to let go and go and go in the, I have, this is my fate and I must follow it. Yeah. To Vigo Morton's character who's like, no, we fight. And we're going to choose to go save those two hobbits because that's what makes the fellowship.

And it was like, those are two different journeys now, but that I'm equally excited for, which I'm assuming is going to be the second movie. Yeah. I mean, I have Tower, Tower, Tower of Terror. Something to Towers. Not Tower of Terror. The Ride of Disneyland. The Towers of Terror, Lord of the Rings. Yeah.

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And just movies in general. Okay, I talked a lot about favorite character. Do you have an immediate, like, who you connected to the most? That's a tough one. I mean, it's kind of like I see Sam at the end, but Sam didn't have a lot to say. And it's like you want to go with Frodo because it feels like this is a lesson in growing up and taking responsibility for something huge. like we get to see him get this ring from like a father figure from from bilbo and then he gets it and then he has to go and grow so much so much so that he's to he realizes he has to do it on his own without all of these people that were going to help him when before he was like he's like I can do it but he didn't feel I don't think he felt like he could go alone so it's like he's kind of in my head of like wow this is such a story.

of almost like self-discovery and growing up and like taking responsibility in such a short amount of time um but i don't it's to be honest this movie i feel like that's it's like an evil question like if i had watched all of them someone's like what's your favorite character i'm like mean because you love them you really love them all there's they write them in a way where the ones that all nine of them have something different to offer and sort of a bright and cheerful side we get to see to each of them in their own way, which makes you just root for all of them. I completely agree. It's like unbelievable too that at the end we get that messaging kind of where you were just talking about him not being able to go on his own. Yeah. But then

finally he realizes, okay, I can trust. nobody. I can only trust myself, but then the world forced him to be like, actually, F you have to trust somebody. You have no choice. Sam's coming with you. So the lesson isn't. It's all on me all the time. It's like move forward and then the universe kind of provides for you what you need, not to get all woo-woo on people, but like you can either choose to accept what the world gives you or you can decide to fight against it and both things are valid at different moments. But like, I just thought that that was so interesting. And I have a million more things to say that about why I love this,

but one nitpick, and I know that the people aren't going to really like this. And I guess it's not really a nitpick as much as I'm curious about it. We have nine, like you just said, you love all nine. And I do too. I love all nine. It's hard to, yeah. There are all nine men. Yeah.

And it would have been cool if Galadriel was one of them. Yeah. or if Liv Tyler's character was one of them, just because that's our main nine that we're following on the journey. Yeah. And of all nine that are protectors of this ring with Frodo being at the helm, it would have been nice to just have like a little feminine energy in there, especially because I really did like Live Tyler's character,

not that there's none in the entire movies. And again, it's not even like we won't see more of them. Right. But this is a movie about nine. Yeah. And so. At least they gave us that. deeming quality that Liv was the badass that took him when he was dying.

And she really was. And I'm like, oh, thank God. They let her go with it rather than giving it to Vigo. I think that's why, though, which I thought was very wise. And I loved what they did with Galadriel's character, too, where she's strong enough that she doesn't take the ring. So I love what they're doing with their women characters. I agree.

Yeah. It would just be cool to see them a little bit more. Absolutely. Because they have been so badass, which I'm sure we'll see in the second one and the third one. But I think it would also bring a different dynamic to the team because right now as a team, we only see them like in bro and out brocode totally yeah you think the people are going to hate that i said that no i feel like i mean we don't we haven't read you know the books we don't know the books of course that's what's in the books exactly but i mean like we're not aware of all

of like the metaphors and the lore of this as to why it would be the nine men right like we don't know there could be more backing to it all totally right um um totally and uh i also feel like this movie is a lesson also in like the protection of friendship because at the very end we see froto going off on his own and then sam's like yeah you are i'm coming with you right yeah which i love that line i think it's so great and then the the protection that vgo and them go as long as we stick together we're going back for the little ones right and that's the we see that protection there on the other side and then I like that we leave us on a bit of an air of hope of like we may we may see them again you know Frodo's like we probably won't but

Sam's like we may just like hold your horses on that and I think they will yeah I do too yeah I do too I also think not just a lesson in friendship but a lesson about greed and what it does to you and how you stop being who you really are when you start being greedy. Totally. Like this takes over. Yeah. And this ring really does. I mean, obviously we know about the current state of our world, but it's like this,

this ring represents a lot that's really relevant to today about like what there used to be nine rings over here, five over here, three over here, peace in the, and then there's the one. And when somebody has too much power. too much on them, too much greed, then everyone else around them suffers. And we see that time after time with people choosing this ring or when you put on the ring

and we see it even with good people when they get greedy like Bilbo. He literally turned into a different person for a second. Yeah. I mean, you have to check yourself before you wreck yourself. So I don't know for a fantasy movie, I just found this to be like unbelievably relatable. Yeah.

I absolutely agree. And it gives us a good visual picture of what greed looks like because it's with Ghalem. But Ghalm, as Gannoff was explaining, saying he loves and hates the ring. But like it's as though Ghalm is our example of someone who stays like too long with the ring or something. I don't know why he just looks so damaged. He goes absolutely to the full spectrum of like the. ring will destroy you and that's what gallum looks like which is probably why he hates it and loves it my assumption with that even though i haven't seen anything is that gollum put on the ring too much

and it aged him all the way down where he's like let's ride the ring out although that could be absolutely wrong but i i do feel in what you were saying that gollum is a great representation of what greed looks like in this movie Yeah, yeah. The problem with, I really want to look up things about this, but the problem is I don't want anything to get spoiled for us. So I think we just won't. Like I want to know, at the end, we'll do trivia, but I don't think for now. Because we can't be spoiled. I also loved how they introduced all of the lands. And it was so great how many times, like I needed them to repeat people's names. And I needed them to repeat where we were. And I needed them to know, listen, this is fantasy for.

the masses and I need to know where we are who we're talking about and I felt like us in the know sometimes when I'm watching fantasy it gets so in the weeds so fast yes they're like oh no I've been introduced to 15 characters and 45 locations in 30 seconds and I don't know how impossible going to remember all that right this felt so effortless it felt like it really painted all the locations the lay of the land it showed us it told us I agree and then it introduced us to the characters in like a nice rollout in meaningful ways and each time. They all had very distinct personalities. Yeah. Yeah, that was just really, really cool of them. Yeah. And I like that they took us to so many locations in the adventure, um, of just seeing

it go from green, luscious land to then they're in the snow and now they're in the mines, which are, he didn't realize it's not his minds anymore and it's become a tomb, which is sad. And, um, I find it like, I know and in the way that they instilled a type of love for Gandalf in this movie that we're introduced to him, you know, at the top and we realize he's a wizard and he's like, Frodo's got to take the ring. We get this clock of that his internal like moral code is a good one and he's going to, when Frodo's like, I got to go, I'll do it. I'll take the ring. and Gandalf's like, I'll be as long, I'll be with you as long as I can type of a thing. And it's like, yes, it's a three-hour movie,

but when Gandalf dies, it's so heart-wrenchingly sad. I'm like, are you for freaking real? You're going to kill Gandalf? But he is a wizard, so I just feel like we're going to, I have to get more flashbacks of it or something because it seems so central to the story, which I do want to see,

and it's a cool way to keep him alive. I also wonder, are we going to get more built, though at some point. Yeah. Because... Because he didn't go. No. Right.

So he would still be at the little land. I forget the name. And he's with Liv Tyler's character. And he's with Liz Dad. So I feel like they're probably going to end up at some... God. That scared the crap out of me. I'm so sorry, honey.

Jesus. Greg walked in the room, y'all. Tara didn't just have a... Ugh. That happens to me every time we're filming and I don't know. Anyone's coming in and I freak out. We weren't even watching a horror movie. We weren't.

But, like, I don't know. Like, get out of the... Get out of here! Okay, I'm fine. It's all good. That did scare me, though. We loved Lord of the Rings.

So good. What was I just saying? Oh, my God. You're going to ruin my train of thought, Greg. I'm going to kill you. God, I had a good point. What do you want? He doesn't want anything.

I did shut. Get out. I wrote down. Don't come in and scare me. Yeah, it was really helpful. It says, Sauron Sildor

2.5,000 years Gollum has ring Bilbo Arwen Frodo Eragorn Gandhal Who I wrote Gandal Names names

Names Gendalt But I meant Gandalf No plot No story Strider Pipp and Mary Names

Camilly Just names Yeah but did I Forget some I know I did Forget somebody's name She was about to argue me and did she forget

somebody's name Who was the one of I'm not it pronounced wrong. Oh, my favorite. Aragon. Aragorn. But the Boston of me said Aragon. Yeah.

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of mountains. It was like just absolutely grand. It hit you like a ton of bricks. It was so overpowering at times and like overwhelming in the best way possible. Really move the story forward. Help that three hour runtime like crazy because that did not feel like a three hour movie. Like it's like the beats per minute with the orchestra in some scenes were like when they're running through and it's and it they're like running it's such an a light and airy even though they're being tracked at the beginning of the movie and then we get to more of a darker like orchestral type of a sound obviously we go to like mortar and stuff like that but even as the movie goes on we're introduced to that like choir operatic sound which is like kind of gets in when it gets darker we're introduced to that

which I found, like, also very ethereal. It was weird the place that it took me while also watching something that was very dark. Like when Gandalf was thrown out and then he's at the top of that weird dark tower, we had that choir singing. And I was like, oh, this feels very ethereal. And yet we're in a very dark time. Man, if you want to know my least favorite character, you just mentioned that tower. That guy.

Sarah Dorner, I forget Sauron. You wrote it down. Samaron. Saramon. Saramon, Samon, Samon, man, Soramon's a prick. Yeah, he built the army.

Saramon can ask my D. Saramon is the worst. Saramon's that guy who pretended his whole life to be good. And, you know, it's hard to be mad because I understand that you're under extreme pressure, but it's like, Saramon is, whof, man,

he's just brutal, brutal. Lemon strudel. Just no, no, no. this movie was so good man as i'm going through my head like in all my favorite scenes there was just so many excellent ones this movie lives up to the hype times 10 is the second one and the third one supposed to be as good as the first one i hope so i i also think that's the one that got all the oscar nominations well i'm not gonna know i mean i could have been this one this could have been this good could have been this one but with sarahmon i feel like he was friends you know when when he's like

what is this, this gray wizard coming to meet me for to talk about it? And I just feel like that's so interesting that they were friends and he was turned to the darkness and turned so hard that he's raising an army for Saradorn or Saradorn or Saradon, whatever. Yeah, the Sauron for the demon. It is annoying that Tolkien did that. We're Sourmon, Sauron, Sauron. Yeah, I'm like, couldn't we make it different? Yeah.

I'm just going to call him white robe guy is working for the devil. Right? And it's funny to me still the colors that they utilize in this because I thought, oh, are they trying to throw us off because all of the nine of them are in very warm kind of colors, muted kind of coloring. And then we see these, the epic guy, the white rogue guy. He's in all white. Yeah, but that's because on the outside and Gandalf thought he presented a certain way. He was good. It's not that I think they're trying to throw us off. I think they're telling us, don't. trust presentation don't always judge a book by its cover right looks this way he's got the long beard like he's a wizard he looks like gandolph like he's a wizard he's in all white good god no you can't trust it i agree i also felt like well are they going to show us that there's some way to bring that wizard back from the darkness because we also playing with when live tyler's riding on that one white horse against all the dark evils they're all on a black horse right And then we see Kate Blanchett.

She's kind of all ethereal and white. And a lot of this movie is between light and dark. We get that. And when they say that the darkness is going to come over and cover Shire, we do see it in that, in the visioning that he has, that Shire is just taken over by those trolls and set on fire. But we don't know. We don't know.

Because she did say, you know, that may come to pass yet. Right. May come to pass. So we're not sure. but it it did seem in the warning when Gandalf was first saying he's like the darkness can come over shy if if the devil gets the ring or whatever that's what he's going to want to do the darkness takes over the world um if Sauron gets the ring you're saying then that he will take he covers darkness yeah he wants the darkness just to spread which I get and we're we're just

hoping that Frodo in the end is strong enough to throw the ring from where it came from once it came so that must be the third movie right yeah we get to that like the next movie must still be about the journeys it it must be because i mean we're on the journey to find the little ones and that may and pippen a story b story because this is this had a very interesting structure to it because they knew that they were going to be doing a trilogy and they know that they're following the books we end at a cliffanger but we still told the first chapter, but it did have a very strange structure, which leads us to at the end we finally separate. So there really is no A and B story the entire time. We really stay on Frodo for the

entire movie. Yeah. And we follow him everywhere. The only times we leave him is briefly when we go to Gandalf, who is not there where Frodo is yet dealing with the white wizard Saramon. Right. So, and that was such a small portion. Then Gandalf gets back with us but the next movie i'm assuming we've got a full a storyline and a full b plot yeah a plot is that is sam and froto going to get the going to try to destroy the ring and the b plot is their friends trying to get back their other friends exactly it's a completely different structure going into to tower of terror and the twin no not twin town to the two i got to stop talking Yeah, end it, Roxy.

I agree with that. And I also think, oh, man, what was like, I just had the thought of, oh, that him with the ring in this movie, because we were mainly just following him with the nine, is that it's also introducing us to the power of the ring and the fact that he had to use it like three times. And two of those times was to get away from one of the nine, right? From Ned Stark, I know. Sean Bean.

Yeah, yeah. From him. What was the other one? And then he was at the, oh, no. And then he was at the bar. Those were the bad guys. Yeah. I don't think he used it to get rid of where from one of the nine, except for that time.

Except for that time. So I liked that when. But he did use it a few times. He used it a few times. And I feel like because when he's with safety with Sam, I mean, he may have to use it again with Sam. But almost like when he's in safety in this time, because they've passed through their minds that I'm like, we may not need to see him use the ring as much, and that may be why this is utilized in the first movie.

Sam is so pure of heart that I would be shocked if this movie goes there that Sam is greedy for the ring. It just doesn't feel like what they're going to do for. No, no way. They're going to kill him. They're going to wrench our hearts out. Yeah, they're going to do something evil. These movies love to do that now.

Before we leave, let's predict right now, who of the nine makes it out of these movies alive? does Frodo Aragorn No do we it does Frodo Yeah it's foot So you think Frodo lives I don't know

I think it's Aragorn You think Aragorn makes it out alive I think there's no way Erigorn makes it out alive Do you think Pip and Mary Make it out alive? I think Gimley's gonna die Yeah he will for sure

We know Bormor died Yeah I think that maybe it will be the two besties maybe sam maybe sam and froto will stay alive i don't know i think they maybe do maybe maybe all it's a hard one it's a hard one i just take out my notebook for this one it's a hard one she just wrote down the name thank god we got also wrote 2.5 000 years because i thought that's because they said it has been two and a half thousand years that that was interesting but i also like that I had to write

Gallum has ring my blessed see now you're into it he did have any final words Tara no I love this movie

can't wait for the next one yeah this is a blastoroni can't believe it that was so good I'm so glad we're watching these together she checks for life

and we'll see you guys for whatever that tower movie is mackale Lyndon if there was someone who I feel like would be a great member of the Fellowship of the Ring. Oh.

It would be Mikhail. I would love Mikhail to be a part of the fellowship. Why, John? What's your angle? I got an angle. What's yours? I mean, I don't want to steal from your angle. If we're on the same angle, we will ride the wave together.

Okay. Well, I was thinking that since... Well, how much James Bond is involved in your... James Bond is not involved at all in my angle? Oh, good. Okay. How much of a pun is your angle? Okay, where are you...

I was just going with like how he lives in like the mountain areas and could probably travel lands. You could guide us through the mountains. That's similar. Yeah, and there's a lot of mountain traveling. And so I was trying to avoid what we always do. You could be the keeper of our maps and scrolls. What's your James Bond angle? I didn't know if you had one because I was like at first I was like,

oh, you must have, you know, like is your angle playing? off of some kind of joke about Mikhail or pun about I was trying to be like he lives in Mountain World so he does he's able to he's a mountain he's could probably explore better and handle that weather and any door any problem I mean knowing where he's from they probably still use compasses

they brought a navigation system and actual like maps that you have to roll open with those big you know like yeah tombs scrolly that haven't been updated in decades rolling pin things yeah yeah but somehow we still just trust them even though there could be completely out of date by

no exactly So I feel like that's where I mean, because where's you from again, Sweden, Switzerland? Sweden. Yeah, yeah, mountains. Yeah. So I feel like he'd be able to do it. You know, the Sweden Alps. That's right.

The Swedish Alps. Yeah. We love them. And, hey, you know, we wouldn't get caught in no snowstorm. We wouldn't have to take a shortcut through no mind. You would know the exact fastest route to Mount Dewam. And his language kind of sounds elvish. That is true.

That is true. And they look, elves kind of look Swedish. They are very Eastern European. So I think he would fit right. Eastern European. It would look like we have an elf on our team. Definitely. Oh, yeah.

No, and I just imagine the way to speak. We did no James Bond. We didn't do any. Or Indiana Jones. Or Switzerland. Or Switzerland. We avoided the Swiss. He's not from there.

Have a good time being not from Switzerland.