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Summary: A 5-Star PLUS movie
Review: The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers is by far one of the best movies ever made. It rates right up there with The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring. In my 44 years I have only 1 other time actually paid out my very hard-earned money to go to the theater to see a movie more than once - even before the advent of video tapes - that was for Life is Beautiful. Mr. Jackson never claimed, nor even pretended, to make a completely faithful adaptation of the book. And I believe Mr. Tolkien would have thoroughly enjoyed the film adaptation - by far more than the animated versions, but I guess that goes without saying!!! I may not have read the books 37 times (YET) but I find that with each re-reading since watching the movies I so completely am engrossed with the literature that the movies serve only to aid my imaginations. I have to say a wholehearted THANK YOU to Mr. Jackson. I wish I could sit down with him and talk about these movies. THEY ARE SUPERB.
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Summary: Ignore The Tolkien Purists Because I Sure Am
Review: This is indeed the best movie of 2002! It is 10,000 times better than the movie musical "Chicago" and has a lot of anticipation. The Tolkien Purists don't think "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is a good movie because they basically worship the book trilogy. Just ignore them! "The Two Towers" is a wonderful movie that is the winner of two well deserved Oscars and is better than it's prequel. I have read the book trilogy and read them twice within four years. I liked them, but I didn't worship them. The Tolkien Purists actually think that "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" could have gone PERFECTLY with the book trilogy. Well, guess what?! Books and movies are two totally different things. And to make a movie go by the book and please critics and audiences there has to be changes, cuts, and added parts in a movie based on a book because there is something called budget. "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is a spectacular movie with great acting, wonderful visual effects, phenomenal music (scores), a well done plot, and good drama, romance, action, adventure, fantasy, exitement, anticipation, and fun.
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Summary: Words cannot describe
Review: Having read the book when I was a child, it never occured to me that anyone could make a movie worthy of the book. What Mr. Jackson and the cast and crew involved in the making of the trilogy have done is nothing short of miraculous. I have seen The Fellowship countless times and I will continue to watch it. Some have said that this is the greatest movie of all times. I fully agree. But, I must also add that The Two Towers is equal to The Fellowship. I cannot wait for the Reteurn of the King. Once the three movies are out, then we can truly say that this is the greatest work of all times. There is no miscasting in the series. I have tried to visualize other actors in these roles, it has been futile. The cast is perfect, the settings are perfect, the music is perfect, and what can you say about the special effects. I cannot believe that the esteem Academy did see fit to give the Oscar to this effort. The series seriously outclasses the competition not only visually but in every other aspect. As a lifelong fan of the literary wonder of The Lord of the Ring, I cannot be less than that for Mr. Jackson's epic motion picture rendering.
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Summary: Tolkien Purists Need To Chill Out!!!
Review: There is nothing wrong with this movie! So what if it didn't follow the book PERFECTLY. Many critics, and audiences, love this movie. So the negative reviews the Tolkien Purists are posting on this site will not bring "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" 4.5 star rating down; so give up! This movie has outstanding visual effects, a wonderful musical (score), great action and adventure, good drama, and spectacular acting!
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Summary: Terrific!
Review: "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" theatrical release was terrific! It was filled with a lot of excitement, anticipation, fun, action, adventure, drama, romance, and fantasy. Being a huge fan of the book trilogy I was not too dissapointed in the changes that director Peter Jackson, and his crew, have made in the movie: making it a little different, but better, than the book. For those of you who are a little, or very, dissapointed in the changes that director Peter Jackson, and his crew, have made in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" I have something to tell you: BUY THE SPECIAL EXTENDED DVD EDITION OF "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS" WHEN IT IS RELEASED IN STORES! It will have fourty one minutes of extra scenes that were not seen in theaters. A lot of those scenes should relate to "The Lord of the Rings" book trilogy, by the author J.R.R. Tolkien, very well. I, for one, am going to buy the Special Extended DVD Edition of "The Two Towers", as I did with it's wonderful prequel "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", the day it will be released in stores which is on November 18, 2003. Well, Anyway, now back to "The Two Towers" theatrical release. This movie was even better than it's prequel, which was "The Fellowship of the Ring", because the plot moves on a lot quicker and it has even better visual effects, a better music (score), great acting, and best of all there is a lot more action and adventure in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". Now I cannot wait to see "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" when it is released in theaters. That movie will be even better than the first two combined. In fact since it will be the third, and last installment, of "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy I am sure Peter Jackson, and his crew, will do their best to make it follow the book trilogy. But, for now, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is the best movie ever, as "The Fellowship of the Ring" once was, until the release of "The Return of the King" which I am sure will be a phenomenon!
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Summary: Some People Would Rather See Chicago Than This Movie
Review: ... The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is ten thousand times better! It has action/adventure, drama, and good romance... The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is the true best movie of 2002...
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Summary: If You Are A Tolkien Purist Then Hear Is What I Think Of You
Review: Why can't you just stop complaining!!! This is Peter Jacksons movie! So whatever he thinks is right for the movies then he'll do what he thinks is BEST for them! And like I care if this movie goes by the books very well or not! I like them; but at least I don't worship them! The movies are better than the books even though the director made it a little different from them.
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Summary: overcoming obstacles
Review: The Lord of the Rings trilogy ranks up there with my all-time favorite books. I have read it many times. I have been waiting for a movie version since before computerized graphics were a reality, but have always understood the impossibility of reproducing the literature faithfully on screen. Certain liberties were bound to be taken. I am often disappointed with a director's chosen interpretation, but not so with The Two Towers, arguably the most difficult of the three books to film. the story line is there, both continuing the thread from the first and existing on its own. Excellent!
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Summary: Come on people, give it a rest
Review: I saw this movie in the theaters about a month after it was released. I have read the books extensively, and all I can say about the film is pure magnificence. It may not follow the book to the letter, but so what. Name me one movie, with the exception of the 1st LOTR, that even comes close. I'll give you 5 minutes to come up with a response............actually, forget that, because I have already thought about it, and can't find a single one. One question, are you the same people who hate Disney films, cause they don't follow the story....anyways back to the review. The cinematography was nearly flawless. The direction superb. And when you realize that Peter Jackson did a movie this technically amazing, and with this much depth for around $33 million a movie, well it kind of puts Titanic at $200 million, and Harry Potter at over $100 million a movie into perspective. Peter Jackson is showing every director who has ever been given a smaller budget to make a "Hollywood" film, how to do it. And also showing up most other directors who in essence throw away $100 million dollar budgets to make their own "Hollywood" movie....not naming any names *cough* Michael Bay *cough* Pearl Harbor *cough*. The acting was top notch, and not exactly what you would expect from a cadre of semi-unknowns. Not that they are independant film actors, but I would not call this "Hollywoods" A-List. When imagining Gandalf and Aragorn, I think I always have seen Ian McKellan and Viggo Mortensen's type of actor in either roll. An amazing job of casting. So to summarize, all of you who have given this movie a bad rating because it did not follow the book, give it a rest and just try to enjoy the movie for the masterpiece that it is.
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Summary: Epic Moviemaking at the apex!
Review: I was spellbound by the previous Lord Of The Rings film, "Fellowship Of The Ring". The previous is more like an introduction to the characters of the trilogy. However, that one, as powerful, riveting, and astounding as "Fellowship" is, it is eclipsed by this second installment film in the three part trilogy "The Two Towers". The cast of this movie is perfect. The same held true with the previous as well.The thing that I found vastly improved was the grouchy dwarf Gimli. I wasn't fond of him as he seemed selfish, pompous and having a too big of an ego in the first LOTR movie but in the second LOTR movie, he was vastly improved in this movie. Gimli was much funnier expressed much more humor, and showed a much more heroic attitude to become one of the highlight characters in my opinion. The whole imaginative world that J. R. Tolkien built in his mind would've put anything that George Lucas or Steven Spielberg would've imagined to shame. No pun intended. He made up entire languages, entire language accents, entire worlds, it goes on. He would've been impressed by the movie screen adaptations. No other novel that I've read has been so well adapted to the big screen like 'Lord Of The Rings' has and I doubt it'll be surpassed for a long time if ever. What I find amazing about the LOTR movies so far is that things that make most other fantasy movies rather cheesy sometimes, they add so much to this movies power and emotion especially the talk treelike people, the Ents. Just trying to be able to put even a drop of the creativity that Tolkien had, onto the big screen seemed impossible but with the help of Peter Jackson, doing so succeeded in every way. Ian McKellen was perfect to play Gandalf. I especially find it wonderful to see the husky voiced Christopher Lee play the renegade wizard Saruman. Saruman is even more evil than he was in the last movie. The visuals are amazing especially with the Sauron's Eye, and the lightning above Mt. Doom, as well as the bird's eye view of Saruman's Orthanc Tower and the Gates of Mordor and also the schizophrenic creature Gollum. Gollum is the spotlight character on this stunning masterpiece of a movie. First, he is a completely computer generated creature but the way they created his form on computer is cutting edge and groundbreaking computer generated imaging. To me, it's this that makes Gollum the most intriguing character in the movie. It's also the dangerously conflicting personalities within him and no other computer generated character in any movie showed so much expression like Gollum does. It's hard not to show at least a little pity for his painful life with the Ring. Picking up where "The Fellowship of The Ring" left off where Frodo and Samwise were when they saw the fiery Mount Doom, the two run into the alienish looking creature Gollum, a former Hobbit named Sméagol, who found the Ring after it being lost and forgotten for thousands of years and being tormented by it's power for hundreds of years before Bilbo Baggins found it after Gollum lost it and Frodo now had the ring and is on his bid to destroy it in the fires of Mt. Doom but encounters Gollum, the one who found it after it was lost for thousands of years. Due to the permanent mental poisoning caused by the ring and his experience of the rings power, not to mention that he seems to suffer from schizophrenia, he guides Frodo & Samwise (who does not trust Gollum) towards the fiery Mt. Doom. At the same time, Aragorn, Legolas, & Gimli hunt down orcs that captured Pippin & Merry during the battle that claimed the life of Borimir in the last movie and involved the Fellowship being dispersed with Frodo going on his own. The two hobbits escape the orcs though and what lies ahead for them is well, let's just say, out of this world. This movie isn't without it's flaws though. There are a great deal of changes that were done to the storylines that made a small number of people disappointed. There are also a large number of characters who aren't even shown on the movie and it disappointed a small number of fans. Overall though, 'The Two Towers' surpasses the first on almost all fronts and the flaws done to this movie are so overshadowed by the incredible dialog and emotions that it's forgivable as there are so many books, events, and characters to play that it's completely impossible to put everything from the book onto the big screen without making each individual movie at least 5 and a half hours long! There's just no way that could happen. The same holds true with 'Fellowship Of The Ring'. The books have a lot more scenes and images that the movies do but the movies absolutely succeeded in portraying the major battle scenes from the books. There are quite a few scenes in the movie that will tug at your heart strings and make one feel bad but it's a mere taste of the sadness that real life events cause when evil strikes home and societies. To me, that makes the Lord Of The Rings movies so incredibly moving and touching and parallels the dangers our world faces these days. As for the DVD release, I would like to warn that whenever the DVD is first released, I would recommend holding off as possibly a gift set or extended edition might wind up surfacing later on so if the regular edition comes out, HOLD OFF, and wait until an extended or gift set edition comes out so you don't get duped by the marketing ploys. This is especially true of the first LOTR movie and it might become of this movie too so I just wanted to deliver a fair warning. Anyhow, back to the movie, TTT is a spellbinding masterpiece and it's a humongous crime that it only won one Academy Award! All I can do now is try to keep myself entertained as I now begin the excruciating wait for the cataclysmic finale 'Return of the King' and witness the final battle to save Middle Earth from the evil clutches of Sauron. Ultimately, these three movies will become legendary classics as the years progress and become favorites for generations to come. Their legacy will last forever.
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