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Summary: Mindblowing Effects, Great Entertainment, Dream Come True...
Review: I have always been a big fan of SciFi and Fantasy genre movies. I saw the movies before I read the books. I think that was the way to go because I loved the movies and then the books had so much more detail and slightly different twists in the story but basically the same. Here are the things that struck me most in the Two Towers:
- Graphics were great as usual.
- Gandalf returns more powerful that ever.
- Aragorn walks in thru the double doors at Helm's Deep
- The Warg battle had great CGI- Gollum rocks (Andy Serkis was great as the talent behind gollum
- The Battle Helm's deep was overwhelming. I love seiges.
- Gandalf rides downhill to kick some Uruk and Orc butt !!! Overall, though there were many additions and many deletions to certain story elements within the books, I think as far as making a movie and captivating a movie going crowd as well as the not so fussy majority of the tolkien fan base, Peter Jackson did a helluva job. The plot of the moive was well thought of and I welcome the changes that saved us from too much detail as in the books. I like reading the books and imagining things and thats where detail helps, not in the movies. But the movies have a great amount of detail too and the Extended Edition always satisfies that desire for a little bit more. I plan to own both the theatrical and extended versions of all three movies. I wish they would have made the Hobbit also...... now I'm aksing for too much :-) I would give this movie and the extended a hundred stars if I could, but I guess five will have to suffice for now..
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Summary: A Great Movie Sequel!
Review: This movie is increadible! I can't wait to own the Special Exteded DVD Edition of 'Lord of the Rings: Two Towers'. It will be even better than the origional (which was awsome)!
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Summary: One of the Gratest Movies of are time!
Review: This is a superb movie! I have the Fellowship of the Ring Speical Edition and its great. It is a little expensive but for die hard Lord of the Rings fans its great. Its good for the hole family. There a lot of speical Features that I all so like watching. Hope I wasn't to Bies.
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Summary: Wow
Review: This is a movie that, to me, succeeds on every level...as entertainment, as cinema, a drama, as an astounding technical achievement. At risk of losing my geek cred, I have never read the Lord of the Rings books (I may yet, though), but the films in this series have just blown me away. I am especially impressed by Gollum, even though he bears a startling resemblence to someone I know.
And as for the "Tolkien Purists"...please be mindful of the different challenges that the film medium imposes. Try to appreciate Peter Jackson's staggering achievement for the labor of love it is. The Lord of the Rings is not history, it's a series of novels (i.e., the comment one reviewer made about Aragorn and "a battle he wasn't even in").
Just enjoy.
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Summary: A change in the trend
Review: I think it would be difficult to dispute that Peter Jackson is an excellent director. However, what remains to be seen is whether or not he is an excellent interpretor, and this seems to be the root of the mixed criticism regarding the second in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "The Two Towers". When Tolkien first published this epic trilogy, he honed every nuance and every phrasal reference to what he believed "worked" within the context of the books. As a professor of English, he could certainly do no less, and he protected his writing from publisher's changes.
Transferring a novel to a film will, of course, require modifications as what "works" on a page will not always work on screen. To this end, I believe the "Fellowship of the Ring" did a fantastic job, and retained the essence of the novels without betraying their thematic elements. However "The Two Towers", while visually appealing and ultimately epic in scope, almost seems a change in trend in the style of interpretation. As other reviewers have mentioned, elements such as Faramir's character, the battle of Helm's Deep, details regarding Isengard etc. were all massively rewritten to the point where themes were actually changed. Case in point, a central theme of nature (represented by the Ents and their forest), vs. industry (the Orcs), demonstrated in the novel by the Forest "consuming" the Orcs of Isengard destroying Saruman's army at Helm's Deep is somewhat uncreatively replaced by the elves coming to Man's rescue in fighting them off.
Whether or not such revision is good or bad for the sake of the audience is a moot point, as "The Two Towers" was even more successful than "The Fellowship of the Ring". But films are a form of artistic expression, just as novels are, and when art imitates art, moviemakers must be careful not to paint over the authors work, while keeping the signature intact.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Fantastic acting, special effects, music (score), and cinamatography make 'Lord of the Rings: Two Towers' a brilliant movie sequel to 'Fellowship of the Ring'. I can't wait to own 'Lord of the Rings: Two Towers' Special Extended DVD Edition!
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Summary: Great movie
Review: I have not read the book, so I won't be comparing to it in this review. We did see this movie in movie theater and it is 100X better than watching it at home. I still can't get over all the special effects in this and the first movie. The landscapes are as beatiful and as creepy as human mind would imagine. Everyone
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Summary: This isn't a book, it's a movie
Review: "There were more than a couple of places where Jackson could have avoided overkill just by MAKING THE CONFOUNDED MOVIE THE WAY TOLKIEN WROTE IT!!!" That's what one of the reviewers wrote in his/her review. I hate to break it to all of you out there, but this isn't a book, it's a movie. All the one-star reviewers have been rating this as a comparison to Tolkiens books, but if they put aside the fact that this is not a book, but a movie, they might realize what an amazing film this is. The visuals and acting are amazing, and the minor plot changes that Peter Jackson inserts into this movie don't hurt or harm the movie, in my opinion. Sure, it changes your thoughts on some of the characters, maybe distorts Tolkien's original story, but without comparing it to the books, the plot is flawless. Also, the battles, contrary to the beliefs of some previous reviewers, are not pointless fighting. I admit, this is a very violent movie, but Rohan, Gondor, and the ex-fellowship are all fighting for a reason, and a very good one at that: the timeless struggle of good versus evil. The battles seem to come alive, with the costumes and sets and all. Also, the love story between Aragorn and Arwen is in the books, but it is in the appedices. All in all, this is an excellent movie, as was the Fellowship, and I expect The Return of the King to be just as good. I also expect the extended editions of the last two movies live up to my expectations. In conclusion.... just watch the movie.
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Summary: Amazing movie, unbelievably bad extra features!
Review: 'The Two Towers' - being the second movie in a tirlogy - is in a natural position to be a disappointment. It doesn't have the benefit of being 'new' (and therefore surprising) like the first, or being as grand as the third. But this wasn't a disappointment - at least to me. Nothing I can write here can convince any of the purists that resented the changes Peter Jackson & co. made to the story are OK. I hope they fel better knowing that The Two Towers was the farthest away the crew strayed from the original book. I still enjoyed it, regardless of the changes, and I'm looking forward to the extended version. This brings me to the only thing I found worth complaining about: the extra features are some of the worst I've seen on DVDs. The only one worth watching was the Return of the King preview. As for the rest - it would've been better to have no features at all. Most of them seem to be either the crew excitedly telling us how great Return of the King is going to be, or something to do with Sean Austin's short movie 'The Long & The Short Of It". With all due respect to Mr. Austin and his work, I don't find his work to be relevant as a part of this DVD. I'm sure the special extended edition of this movie would contain awsome features (jsut as the last one did), and the studio had les us know about the editions in advance, but it still doesn't feel good to buy a 'fanccy' 2 disk set, with the 2nd only containing about 5 - 10 minutes of something worth watching. Unless you are a very dedicated fan of the series, I would reccommend renting this DVD and buy the extended version instead.
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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: Sorry to say that I am not a big fan to Tolkien but I did read "Lord of The Rings" twice. Even by that I didn't effect by the "Tolkien Purist" fever. I think these film are fantastic (I mean both, The Fellowship of The Ring and The Two Towers), to my point of view the part of Elves Army come to Helm Deep meant something to the audiences and I do believed that, most people felt the jolt of hope for the people of Rohan. I do respect Peter Jackson, all cast and crew, they're worked so hard with pure determination to made these film come alive. So, if it was not exactly like the book and then do not see it. No Producers or Directors in this world can satisfy the reader imagination, that's the fact. I think even the most imaginative and open mind writer like Tolkien would be proud to these films. Praise them for what they did and what we cannot do.
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