I'm interested in this, but not if it's a ton of 18 year old girls who've never touched a Tolkien book in their lives...
If the films are only mentioned briefly, then this film will be perfect for me. I don't want to see "Lord of the Rings fans", I want to see "Tolkien fans".
'To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!'
I just finished watching it and it starts off with when Tolkien wrote The Hobbit. The fans are genuine fans of the movies and books and not just adolescent girls screaming. It was very well done and I enjoyed the special features as well.
sharePlease, the 18 year olds are the best of the bunch.
It's those little prepubescent Orlando Bloom/Legolas fans that you really need to watch out for.
it's got everything, from fans of books to fans of movies to fans of both to girls that just think elijah is cute. this one girl ramble about how elijah and orlando are such great names and *beep* it was annoying, but funny.
shareThe shot of the fangirl obsessing over Elijah at a convention was almost too much to bare, but the priceless look a guy in the background gave her made it all worth it.
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Elessar --- you will be pleasantly surprised by what RINGERS is truly about. The film does not take stock of the Peter Jackson films only. It starts 50 years ago with the publication history of the Hobbit and LOTR. Then it moves forward like a time capsule of popular culture as the 60's movement embraces Tolkien, and the publishing scandal of how the ACE paperback books were published violating the copyright and not paying Tolkien anything (and how hippie students stepped up to protest the illegal books. They supported the real Ballantine paperbacks.) Then the rock and roll discussion begins (all about Led Zeppelin, RUSH, and other progressive rockers), and moving into the 70's RINGERS looks at the other animated film versions (and how the Beatles attempted to launch their own comedy/adventure adaptation of LOTR), and then the fantasy explosion of the 80's, and the internet fan explosion of the 90's. Finally RINGERS looks at Peter Jackson's success in the last 15-20 minutes of its runtime. The entire documentary has a strong PRO LITERACY slant -- we see parents are enthusastic about handing the books down to their kids, and getting their interest in reading piqued because of their shared love of the story. So it's all about the BOOK influencing other forms of popular culture and other artists over 50 years. It's a sweeping, overall look at how much we all love Tolkien's master work, in various ways. The screaming fangirls (who are admittedly entertaining) are kept to a minimum :-)
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