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Summary: THE TRAILER WAS AMAZING!
Review: I only saw the preview but I already see that it's gonna rock!
All the new and old charecters, Helm's Deep, Gandalf as Gandalf
the white! Also Treebeard!!!!! AND SOOOOOOOOOOO much more is in the trailer! I already know It's gonna be good
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Summary: Will Christmas 2002 ever get here soon enough?
Review: Having viewed The Fellowship of the Ring twice in the theatre, I am very anxious to see this movie as well. I have not read the books - but plan on reading the first one (or "ones" if you count The Hobbit) and won't read the second one until I've seen the movie, because I don't want to spoil the movie, but the books will always be slightly different and have more depth to them and so the movie in turn cannot ruin the books. I first saw Fellowship of the Ring by myself and was quite impressed, and then I took three of my friends to see it - all who have not read the books either - and they are also spellbound. The funny thing is when it was over, my friend turns to me and she was like, "That's it?!" She said she would have much rather sat through a nine hour movie, because she didn't want it to end. Trust me, having seen Fellowship of the Ring, I don't want it to end either, and just wish I could sit through all nine hours with her. And I thought only The 10th Kingdom could allow me to do something like that....
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Summary: Amazing Movie
Review: Not only is this an amazing film, it is also an amazing boxed set that will keep you entertained and mesmerized for a long time. Not one aspect of the making of this film is left out as every detail is shown and lovingly presented. Four discs doesn't seem enough to contain how much Peter Jackson and his crew did to bring this movie to the big screen. As for the film itself, with it's added time, it is allowed to breathe and develop. For those who still don't have Fellowship, that is amazing too
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Summary: "LOTR" is finally brought to life!
Review: When John Ronald Ruel (J.R.R.) Tolkien wrote his novel, "The Lord of the Rings," and was published in the '50s, it became an imediate success. Through the novel, Tolkien created "Middle Earth," a world beyond your wildest dreams. "LOTR" isn't your average fantasy; rather than just reading about an imaginary world, you're actually IN that world. Tolkien has created a culture for the inhabitants of Middle Earth -- be they customs, style, or languages (Tolkien was good at that).With his novel, Tolkein tells the intriguing tale of the Hobbit (little man for your info) Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") and the evil "One Ring," forged by the "long-gone" Dark Lord Sauron years ago. Frodo is on a mission: to destroy the Ring!!! No, not anywhere else, but at the place where it can only be destroyed -- where it was created in, Mt. Doom! Frodo is joined by the "Fellowship of the Ring," and they embark on their perilous quest to destroy it. This is the beginning of "The Fellowship of the Ring," the first part of the trilogy, "LOTR." It later on continues in "The Towers" and "The Return of the King," considered by many to be finest in the trilogy. "LOTR" itself is considered a great novel, yet no movie treatment or adaptation was done (except for an animated version in the '70s). But it was not until the late 20th century that New Zealand director decided to film it -- and succeed, he does! His adaptation of part one ("The Fellowship"), was a huge success, winning four Oscars. This film, part two ("Two Towers"), was also a success, winning two Oscars. And its success was well-deserved; it took lots of hard work to create this film. For once, this movie version of "The Towers" has many elements to make it a good film. One such example is the use of special effects; yes, they use CGI, but in a good manner, and when they do, it results well (a perfect example is Gollum -- his moves were based on those of live-actor Andy Serkis, an original idea for a method!). But they filmakers were wise to not only use GCI but also actual materials, ranging from models to so-on and so-forth. They were also wise enough to make use of outdoor resources; most of the filming took place in New Zealand, the director's native country. And it was thankful that the "LOTR" trilogy was filmed there; Middle Earth has never looked good! New Zealand provides a perfect setting for the story, capturing the beautiful landscaping of Tolkien's world. The scenery was lush and the cinematography was excellent! Actors were awesome, especially Ian McKellen ("X-Men") as Gandalf the Grey/White; when I think of Gandalf's face, I'll never think of any other face besides Ian! Christopher Lee ("The Man With The Golden Gun") did an excellent job as the wicked wizard Saruman, capturing his evil and charisma. Hats are also off to Sean Astin ("Rudy") for his excellent portrayl of the steadfast, loyal, and lovable Sam. Andy Serkis was great as Gollum, especially the moves and voice-work. Howard Shore's musical score was all you can ask, capturing the mood of the story. Whether they are the haunting choirs used to capture the Elves' mysterious yet fascinating ways or drums used for the evil, charging sounds of Morder, Isengard, and the Orcs, you can't deny that Shore made beautiful music for the movie. The costumes and sets look lovely, and it's a fact that Alan Lee ("LOTR" book illustrator) took part in making the film. Although orginally nearly four hours long, "The Two Towers" -- like most of the films in the trilogy -- was trimmed to a mere three hours, thus reducing some of the story. But fear no more, for a Special Extended Version is available! You'll find the EE more enjoying. For those who were angered by Faramir's portrayl in the theatrical version, you'll find him lovable in the EE. The movie is controversial to many devout fans of the books; they say that it isn't accurate to the books. But let's all remember that all movies based on a book have some sort of a change. "The Two Towers" movie (except for the Aragorn falling off the cliff scene) is about 85 percent faithful to Tolkien's work. Some have complained about the lenght; it's an EPIC movie, duh! They're supposed to be long (check out "The Ten Commandments" or "Ben-Hur" -- they're VERY long). Thus, for all movie fans, "The Two Towers" is a treat.
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Summary: This is the best of the three!!
Review: Usually, the second movie in a trilogy is the weakest. It doesn't have the freshness of the first movie or the finality of the final movie. The Two Towers, however, is the exception to the rule. For lack of a better phrase, it rocks!!! The extra material included in this extended version DVD really fleshes out the movie. After you watch it you'll wonder why Peter Jackson left it out; it makes the movie complete. The fight scenes at Helm's Deep are great, and you forget that a lot of what you're seeing is computer generated. Several new characters are introduced, but you feel like you've known them all along. The best part of the movie is the addition of a Boromir/Faramir scene. Of course, I could be biased. I love Boromir (Sean Bean). This movie is a cinematic masterpiece. It's great!!!
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Summary: Can I give it more than 5 stars? Please?
Review: "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is the second edition to this trilogy. This action packed movie is one of few that lives up to the original. The action isn't the only detail that attracts audiences. So do the special effects and most important...the genius storyline. Drama and elaborate scenes combine surely pleasing J.R.R. Tolkin, the book author. Peter Jackson, the director, the producer, and the writer, proudly presents his sweat and tears. He's worked nonstop since 1999 perfecting every detail. He leads the crew to make a seamingly impossible task look easy when actually, it's one of history's hardest movie creations. The set and the buildings look real, but the construction took almost a year to complete with just "The Two Towers". Every actor performs every drop of heart and soul as did Peter Jackson in his duties. Elijah Wood proves as Frodo Biggings that he'll perfect more demanding roles in the years coming. Other Oscar worthy performances are noted by Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom, and others. They give their characters the necessary emotions for the audience to feel in their hearts. Those interested in this movie are advised to watch "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" first. Otherwise, one will be clueless to many scenes. This is the continuation of the journey to destroy the ring before it takes over the world; therefore, creating widespread evil. "The Two Towers" keeps the audience's eyes wide open waiting for the next intense action scene. Afterward, watch the special features. It includes a sneak preview of the next trilogy chapter, "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" with a behind-the-scenes look. Sean Astin's short film feature is viewing worthy. It stars four "Lord of the Rings" crew members including the legendary Peter Jackson. The WB-special originally aired on November 2002 informs how "The Two Towers" was made. All other features are worth watching. The ensemble will not leave the audience disappointed.... It'll be.......their precious.
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Summary: Each successive one becomes my favorite....
Review: How could they have topped "Fellowship of the Rings?" The casting, scenery, music has become so entangled with the book that they're virtually inseparable. Plus, this addition gives us 43 minutes enhancements to tell more of the story and the characterization. I love getting lost in Tolkien's world for 3 hours or more.
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Summary: Contining the tale of Frodo Baggins and his ring.
Review: Lord of the Rings and the Two Towers continues where the Fellowship left off. It introduces the Characters Gollum, Farimer, King Theoden, Treebeard (and the ents), Eowyen, Eomer, Wormtounge and brings back Gandalf the grey as Gandalf the white.
Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas continue their search for Merry and Pippin, they enter the kingdom of Rohan chasing after the Urah-Kai. They meet with riders of Rohan that where banded from the city by Wormtoung a survant of Saruman the White. Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas learn that these riders destroyed the Urak-hia but did not notice the hobbits. They continue to find the remains of the Urah-kai in hopes of finding the two hobbits. Aragorn uses his leadership skills and found traces of the two hobbits that lead them into Fangorn Forest. The three travelers went warrily into the old dark forest.
In the forest they meet up with a wizard assuming he was Sarumon, and attempted to attack him. The wizard was to strong for the three of them, only after they realized they couldn't attack him the three realized he was Gandalf, their old friend. Gandalf leads them to the city of Rohan to the aid of King Theoden. King Theoden is be-spelled by Saruman the white, who now has a strong hold over him. Gandalf fights Saruman and free's Theoden from the spell. They meet Eoywen the neice of Theoden. Theoden then realizes he was betrayed by Wormtounge who was helping Saruman.
Theoden bans Wormtounge from Rohan and Gandalf informs him of the upcoming war with Saruman and Saruon. Theoden decides to the dismay of Gandalf to run into the mountains and hide at Helms Deap. Gandalf wishes Theoden to stay and fight, he leaves Rohan to search for more fighters. All the people of Rohan ride to Helms deep, on the way they are attacked by the wolves of isengard. Aragorn falls into a river and is assumed dead but the group must continue to Helms Deep. They later find that Aragorn is still alive, and continue prepairing for war.
To the suprize of the men of Helms Deep they see a group of elven warriors come to form another alliance. The Urak-hai shortly arrive after this and the war at helms deep begins. After fighting and several lives are lost and the fortress is taken over the King rides outs with Aragorn and the remaining men and elves and attack the urak-hai head on. They meet back up with Gandalf and win back Hemls Deep.
Merry and Pippin do not meet back up with the fellowship until the Return of the King, they meet Treetbeard, an ent, also known as shepards of the forest. He starts to take the two hobbits to the end of the forest so they can go home. Merry and Pippin convence Treebeard to take them the other direction closer to Isengard. Treebeard sees that the white wizard has torn down several of his trees, and is greatly disturbed by this. He calls the other ents and wakens the trees and attacks Isengard.
Frodo and Sam finally meat Gollum, and to Sams dislike Frodo orders Gollum to lead them to Mordor. Sam never trusts Gollum, who later plots to kill both him and Frodo to take the ring back as his own. On the way to Mordor the cross a swamp land called the dead marshes. They then go through a forest and meet the captin of Ithilien another son of the stuard of Gondor, Faramir. He attemps to take the ring to save Gondor but realizes that the ring does no good. He realizes Sam, Frodo, and Gollum and they continue to Mordor.
It has all of the same stars as the Fellowship also stars new characters:
Bernard Hill as King Theoden, Brad Dourif as Wormtounge, Maranda Otto as Eoywen, David Wenham as Faramir, and Karl Urban as Eomar.
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Summary: NO SHELOB!!!
Review: I went to the movie expencting to see the fat spider at the end. Nothing. I knew when the credits rolled that they saved this scene for the last movie and it really pissed me off. The first book has more of a "to be continued" feel and they had it right in 'Fellowship'. Two Towers has the climatic battle at the end and the screenwriters couldnt leave it in? Thats garbage and alone deserves 1 star. Add to that the fact that the length makes it unwatchable expecially if it ever makes it to T.V. I can understand not everything from a book being in a movie but adding stuff that never happens is frustrating when total time is 3 hours. I dont care if you need excitement in the middle you dont have Aragorn cliff jumping with a Worg. It never happened in the first place, dont add it. If you could somehow go into these movies flush out all the stuff that Peter Jackson added and extended youd be left with 3 watchable movies each with a length of 2 hrs. As they are are no ones going to go back and watch these 12+ hour sleepers.
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Summary: The winds of war
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Picking up directly where THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) left off, this dark and near-despairing second chapter plunges the now-scattered band assembled in the first film into a cold hellish landscape of war and waste.
Plucky hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) are traipsing torwards the dark kingdom of Mordor, where Frodo must destroy the malevolent ring of power in the burning maw of Mount Doom before it falls into evil hands. The scrawny, desiccated Gollum (acted and voiced by Andy Serkis), who once possessed the ring and was warped and twisted by its insidious influence, agrees to lead them, and Frodo is persuaded by the sorry creature's whining and cringing that the potential for good still stirs beneath hi wizened skin. Skeptical sam fears the ring is beginning to cloud Frodo's judgement. Meanwhile, fellow hobbits Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) remain prisoners of the fearsome Uruk-hai, unnatural warrior beasts created by the wicked wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee) to destroy all human life in Middle Earth. In imminent danger of being eaten by their cannibal captors, the hobbits escape into the fearsome Fangorn Forest and fall in with an ancient, sentient tree (voice of John Rhys-Davies), who spends much of the movie deciding what to do with them. And in yet another location, warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and his companions, Gimli (John Ryhs-Davies) and Legolas (Orlando Bloom)--a dwarf and an elf, respectivly--are en route to the Kingdom of Rohan, which lies directly in the path of a massive Uruk-hai army. They seek an alliance with king Theoden (Bernard Hill). who must first be liberated form a spell by the unsubtly named quisling Wormtongue (Brad Dourif). Aided by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), now white-haired but otherwise inscathed by his apparently fatal encounter with a fire beast in the previous film, they join forces with Theoden to stop 10,000+ Uruk-Hai in their scaly-clawed tracks.
While the first film in Peter Jackson's epic adaption of J.R.R Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy was weighted in favor of establishing charactors and developing the relationships that bind them, this second installment is heavy on battle sequences, which will thrill most viewers more than others. Several significant charactors from the first film, notably Aragon's lover Arwen (Liv Tyler) and elf queen Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), make token appearences. New players are added, including Faramir (David Wenham), belligerent brother of the late Bormir, and no-nonsense princess Eowyn (Miranda Otto), who might be a new love interest for Aragorn were it not for the fact that romantic love in Tolkien's tales is so often unrequited.
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