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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: I have something to say to the Tolkien Purists and the people who hate "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" movie. This movie is brilliant! It is now the winner of two Academy Awards. Even though this movie does not go perfectly with the book, wich I have read, it is still phenominal. A lot of critics and people love this movie. So whether you like it or not "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" is one of the best movies of 2002.
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: Best movie ever made. Brilliant acting, unbelievable score. I watched it a dozen times.
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Summary: I don't get it, Mr. Jackson...
Review: ...In the first movie, I completely understood why Tom Bombadil had to be left out, sad as it was. That is a scene which even in the book is rather isolated and ultimately has little to do with the advancement of the plot.
Why, then, did you choose to make changes in the Two Towers which not only were very contrary to the spirit of the involved characters, but actually SLOWED THE MOVEMENT OF THE PLOT DOWN!!? If Faramir had behaved as intelligent and honorable as his character was written to be, poor Frodo and Sam wouldn't have had to spend half of the movie going to some place in which, in Sam's own scripted words "everything feels wrong. We're not supposed to be here!" Faramir is much more in control of himself than Boromir. He understands the peril of the ring, and decides to let the hobbits continue on their duty... he NEVER TAKES THEM ANYWHERE AGAINST THEIR WILL!!!
The Ents... they have the Entmoot and decide, eventually, that they are very, terrifyingly, angry with Saruman, and they also decide to go after him. Forcefully. Treebeard is not tricked like some weak foolish old man into "walking by" Isengard. The march of the Ents is ferocious and implacable. Not delayed.
It would actually have allowed you to make it a tighter and more accurate movie to stick closer to the book in at least those two respects. Instead what we have is an oddly timed movie that takes too long to get to the conclusion... which unfortunately, due to time constraints, was left for the beginning of the third movie. God knows how you're going to have to mangle the third book to finish the movie now. The scouring of the Shire is a shining moment in most fans minds... if that is left out, you will have completely disregarded the love Tolkein had for his characters.
But other than all that, well done.
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Summary: Movie review of "The Two Towers"
Review: If you are a Tolkien fan, you will add this film to your favorites list! I don't think anyone could have made this film better than Peter Jackson - as politically correct to Tolkien standards as possible. The book, The Two Towers, was the least interesting in the series but not the movie. Jackson rounded the story out by including information from The Simirilian and from Tolkien's Appendices that, if otherwise left out of the movie would have left gaps in the overall adaption. I found it rivoting - enough to see it 3 times at the theatre. Since Tolkien's ring trilogy is second only to the Bible in literary popularity, and since you are reading this review, you will no doubt also injoy the movie.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: This was a fabulous movie. It had a lot more action in it than the first one did. In this movie, Aragorn begins to emerge as the King he is. He has a longing to go and become King. He also is lost, he has told Arwen to go to the Gray Havens and not come and marry him. Frodo and Sam, "befriend" Gollum, and his takes them to Mordor. They also meet Faramir, the brother of Boromir. Gandalf returns, and meets up with Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas and tells them that Merry and Pippin are safe and not to fret. When Aragorn, Gimli, Gandalf and Legolas reach Rohan, the sword maiden falls in love with Aragorn, who refuses to return her love for the hurt he still feels. All in all a great movie, worth being in the theater for three hours.
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Summary: The best movie ever!
Review: I think that Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers surpassed the first movie. Legolas is such a great character. He befriends Gimli, a drawf who hates him. In this movie they become great friends. I can't wait for next movie.
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Summary: A Great Movie
Review: "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" is the best fantasy film ever! But the Tolkien purists on this site do not think so.... This is a great movie. I like Tolkiens "Lord Of The Rings" books too because I have read them. I happen to think that even though this movie does not go PERFECTLY with the book, it is still a great movie.
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Summary: Only 50% of what it could have been.
Review: First things first this is my favorite film. Everything else now. It's down right stupid. I don't think I'll change many peoples mind but being a historian and a fencer (sword fighter), I want to point out that the film was tactically a bunch of rot. ... First of all the arrows. I don't know what [person] was in charge of the films tactics department. I suspect they didn't have one. Am I the only one who's noticed that it take four slashes with a sword to kill somebody and one shot with an arrow? In reality it is the other way around. One hit with the sword would more likely kill a man than one hit with an arrow. ... Ever notice how the dragon only took one shot to send it running? Why was everybody so scared of it? Why didn't they just take one simple shot at it and get back to their lives. Hitting that thing isn't tough to do. Next. Archery tactics. The English sometimes began shooting at an enemy at ranges of a quarter mile, and the elves begin shooting at the last possible moment? Remember the battle of Helmsdeep? Next. When the short hand held ladders went up to the castle, why didn't anybody try pushing one off? ... They just stood at the top of the ladder and waited politely for their enemies to climb up. Next the big ladders: that contraption to hook it to the wall has to be one of the world's stupidest things. Number one the chances of firing that grappling hook up and hooking it just on the wall is probably mathematically a zero. Second the chance that one elf or human won't cut the rope that holds the grappling hook to the ladder is absolutely nothing. (I'm just getting started here!) The explosion that blew out the wall. Am I the only one who noticed they picked the absolute worst place to waste on explosion? Why not set the explosion against the base of the keep? If you look closely the outer wall did not defend the base of the keep; and the orkii had already reached the base of the keep they could have one the battle right there! ... Next when the horses charged out of the castle to meat Gandalf the horses had no armor?! And not one of them went down! What kind of code of honor do you think orkii have to not slash out a horses legs? No way! Those horses would have been downed in seconds. Again when the horses charged down the mountainside to save the day. They would have been murdered by all those spears no questions asked. (And don't tell me the light did them in remember in Fellowship of the Ring it was said that the orkii traveled by day. Sun was maybe not their favorite thing, but they could deal with it.) Next magic: what in the world was the director thinking? I think Gandalf has used magical abilities a total of ONE time this film. He's a wizard; he just doesn't do magic. ... When Gandalf charged over that hill he should have thrown out his staff and knocked back a hole for the horses to charge through. Now that combined with the sun and the surprise attack would have been a believable victory. ...
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Summary: Nothing short of brilliance
Review: Okay, the storyline is somewhat different than the trilogy written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1930's, it is still without a doubt the best serial movie since the first Star Wars series, if not better. I discovered Tolkien almost 30 years ago at a garage sale in Texas, and it not only had the trilogy, but his complete writings, including his Son's book The Simirillian. I was pleased at reading The Hobbit, and that he carried some of the charaters into the trilogy, and was so far ahead of his time, it is unbelievable. In many ways, it is like Steven King's The Gunslinger series (although he has yet to release the final chapter), you will not forget anything you read the year before. Tolkein has done the same with this series. And also true to Steven King's novels made into movies, there are few that match up to the book itself, due to the difficulty to portray what each character is actually thinking. I have read some here who say it is boring, or that it is boring compared to the first movie, if so, then obviously you haven't read the book. I am certian that the last in the series, it will keep you in suspence and promises to be spellbounding. If you miss this movie, don't bother to see the last until it is released in DVD or Video, or you will be lost, you must see the whole thing to have the desired effect, it is worth the $8.50 per person to plop down. If you miss it, it will be your own fault.
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Summary: Its not Tolkien...it's "Peter Jackson's World of Fantasy!"
Review: Absurd changes to Theoden, Grima, Gimli, Saruman, Aragorn, the Battle of Helms Deep, Treebeard, Gollum and the dynamic between Frodo and Sam, as well as some gratuitous special effects (why have the Nazgul flying scenes? How do they further the story?), make this, as a faithful version of the book of the same name, only a one-star film. What gives it two stars are the special effects generally, and the event-like nature of experiencing the film. Once those effects are no longer the "newest-latest" and once watching the film is no longer an event, I'll probably agree with every single awards list on Earth and patently ignore the rather horrid acting (except for Miranda Otto, who is perfect as Eowyn, even if she's been driven to a silly "love triangle" role in the script), and be forced to lower the rating even further. Dwarf comedy indeed... If Peter Jackson wanted to make his own fantasy film, why call it The Two Towers and use characters from someone else's work? It's not like Tolkien needed exposuure or anything; the literary work was valued so much that Lord of the Rings is the second-most popular book ever...behind only the Bible. Second most popular EVER. But instead of a faithful rendition, we get Aragorn over a cliff in a made-up Warg battle, and Faramir taking the ring to Osgiliath, in clear "violation" of who Faramir was? Again, PJ should have had the courage to make his own film, and conceive his own characters. To do much of that under the cowardice of making money off of someone else's characters and basic storyline, is rather sad.
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