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Simply Perfect

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Blistering performances.

This is a wonderful fan-made film that really surprised me. A friend recommended me to view this one - glad I did. Well acted, beautiful costumes and set designs, good directing and the CGI Gollum was impressive. The script is a little bland, needs a little bit more spice, but the action makes up for it. Overall it's worth watching if you enjoy Tolkien and fan inspired film-works.8/10

This is a short film written and directed by Chris Bouchard that cost £3,000 to produce which begs the question how does the average Hollywood cost thousands upon thousands of times thus ? Okay it's an amateur film with a run time of 38 minutes but even so if it was three times longer this would mean it would cost £9,000 . There's shockingly good about a bunch of amateurs getting together to make something so impressive or the other school of thought is it's absolutely disgraceful that Hollywood productions are so expensive in comparison and seems to illustrate how over paid a great number of people are over at the LA dream factory . The technical merits of THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM are every bit as impressive as those seen in the Jackson movies Of course there's a serious fly in the ointment and that is if you're having a film with Aragorn and Gandalf , even if it's a fan made non profit film for the internet then it's going to be a major disappointment if you can't get Viggo Mortensen or Ian McKellen in the roles . Aragorn and Gandalf aren't James Bond or the Doctor from DOCTOR WHO and no offence to Adrian Webster or Patrick O'Connor but they're not in the same league and you're fully conscious that Aragorn is played by an entirely different actor from the Jackson movies . Likewise there seems to be a contrived element that the audience don't get to see Gollum fully until the end of the film since he spends much of the story bundled inside a sack and one suspects his one full appearance at the end is courtesy of a clip from Wingnut Films Not to be too scathing and cynical THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM shows what can be achieved on an absolute shoestring budget and the entire look of the film totally convinces it was shot on location in Middle Earth . I'll repeat it again - what have Hollywood producers been spending their money on if a small fan made film like this that puts Hollywood to shame ?

Sniffing through my sister's hard drive i saw this movie being a huge lotr fan i immediately stole it. I really don't understand why it got a 7 rating here, i give it a 5. let me start by saying the pros good atmosphere good graphics acting is OK.it feels like a well done movie, but a true lotr fan would look beyond that. The title itself didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. when i started watching it i thought it would fit in with the movie storyline but i realized it hasn't been meant that way. Now in a nutshell, the biggest drawback is the director, i just think he didn't have what it taked, thus why i gave it a 5. the reason it depressed me is that after watching it i kept thinking how the hell should it stay true to the story, i mean while watching it, it just deviated away into an alternative storyline, and i kept thinking is it just me or what? im talking about how the movie made more sense if Gandalf hadnt known Bilbo and never been to the Shire, when in fact he had. The movies never contained or implied that they went looking for Gollum and capturing him, but Gollum was the one who found the hobits. which begs the question; why would they go look for him when he was already captured by mordor. so the whole thing only makes sense when u assume Gandalf never knew Bilbo. Now i kinda feel regret stealing this video, because it really didn't add anything to the experience. and then i realized its probably a bunch of kids who made it, and i shouldn't be stressed out about some fanboy video.

When this awful "thing" finished I said to myself: "Oh, God of Talkien, what nonsense I saw and I spent my time to". Please, make a favor to yourselves, don't even think of watching it. The essence of the films of Peter Jackson is for keeping it pure and in your mind. I prefer to have this essence than spending time and my precious nervous system to a farce. I have never seen - thanks God - such a unbelievable tragic way of ...acting (can I use this verb for this?), for walking, for talking, for the... unexpected nose of "Arwen" even! What an Arwen! This poor girl should have first operation to her curve - not nose, it's a curve - falling down and then to think playing a role of a poor girl on the streets (NOT ARWEN, for God's sake!) Make a favor to your night. Do NOT throw your time in garbages like this.