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Summary: Precious
Review: You won't want to pass up this collector's edition. If you bought the first one you know how cool the Aragonath bookends look! Here's what you can get with this year's version: A collectible Gollum polystone statue created by Sideshow Weta.
Bonus DVD on the Weta Workshop and how the Gollum statue was created, featuring interviews with Peter Jackson. A printed companion piece showing how Gollum evolved from pencil sketch to sculpted maquette to digital character. The extra DVD makes this set more exclusive thatn FOTR - which included the National Geographic special that could be bought separately. Fans will not want to pass ths up! Oh yeah, plus there's the movie itself with an added 43 minutes of footage. We'll get a glimpse of Denethor, father to Boromir and Faramir. Boromir will also make an appearance in the special edition. Faramir's anger will make more sense after you see what you missed from the theatrical version. Two Towers is a staggering film. Helm's Deep might just be the finest battle scene ever filmed. The visuals are simply stunning. The film does not follow the book but that's for the better. The book is very linear and that would not have translated well into a movie experience. I only wish they could have somehow packaged the theatrical version with the extended edition.
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Summary: The Best Movie Of The Twenty First Century!
Review: "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy are fantastic movies! "The Fellowship of the Ring" amazed me very much. But it was "The Two Towers" that really did filled me with anticipation and excitement when I saw it in theaters. The Warg battle, the battle for Helms Deep, the battle of Osgiliath, and the when the ents attacked Isengard are the most anticipating, exciteing, and intense parts of the movie. The visual effects, acting, and musical (score) "The Two Towers" has to offer are brilliant! And the action, adventure, drama, fantasy, and romance in the "The Two Towers" are terrific!
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Summary: Two Towers Special GIFT Edition!!! Why get the Gifts?
Review: I'm sure if you're reading this review you would also like to know why you should purchase the GIFT SET instead of the normal Special Extended edition. Well here's what's included for the extra $35.95 -First off the packaging will be illustrated by Famous Artist, Alan Lee.
-4-disc Platinum Series™ Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
-Collectible Gollum polystone statue created by Sideshow Weta
-"The Evolution of Gollum" exclusive:
Bonus DVD on the Weta Workshop and how the Gollum statue was created, featuring interviews with Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, the cast and more!
-A printed companion piece showing how Gollum evolved from pencil sketch to sculpted maquette to digital character That's it! But what does the Special Extended Edition DVD contain? DISCS 1-2: THE FEATURE FEATURE (approx. 214 minutes) -
A new version of the second installment in the epic trilogy! The film includes over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film, made especially for this video release: -Widescreen (2.35:1) version of the Special Extended Edition
-Dolby Digital EX 5.1 Surround Sound
-DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound
-Stereo Surround Sound
-Four audio commentaries by director and writers, the design team the production team and the cast featuring more than 30 participants including Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom and Academy Award® winners Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Randy Cook...and many more DISCS 3-4: THE APPENDICES Two discs with hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design/photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: DISC 3
-Adapting the book into a screenplay & planning the film
-Designing and inspiration for locations in Middle-earth
-Storyboards to pre-visualization
-Weta Workshop visit - See sculptors in action as they create the weapons, armor, creatures and miniatures from the film
-Atlas of Middle-earth: Tracing the journey of the Fellowship
-An interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process
-Galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists DISC 4
-Sending actors to battle - preparation for sword fighting
-Principal photography: Stories from the set
-Digital effects including motion capture and "Massive" (a program to create armies of Orcs) -"Bigatures" - A close-up look at the detailed miniatures used in the film
-Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos
-Post-production - editing it all together
-Sound design demonstration
DVD-ROM CONTENT: Includes access to exclusive online features Seeing as I'm such a huge fan of LOTR, I will be purchasing the Gift Edition. But for those who are not such huge fans its really up to you whether you want those little extras. But remember....Its my PRECIOUS!
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Summary: Lord of the Rings: Two Towers on DVD! MY PRECIOUS!!!
Review: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is the second installment in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. But what does this Epic of a film treat us with if we purchase this Special Extended Edition of the DVD? Well, this review is about to tell you! DISCS 1-2: THE FEATURE FEATURE (approx. 214 minutes) -
A new version of the second installment in the epic trilogy! The film includes over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film, made especially for this video release: -Widescreen (2.35:1) version of the Special Extended Edition -Dolby Digital EX 5.1 Surround Sound -DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound -Stereo Surround Sound -Four audio commentaries by director and writers, the design team the production team and the cast featuring more than 30 participants including Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom and Academy Award® winners Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Randy Cook...and many more DISCS 3-4: THE APPENDICES Two discs with hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design/photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: DISC 3
-Adapting the book into a screenplay & planning the film -Designing and inspiration for locations in Middle-earth -Storyboards to pre-visualization -Weta Workshop visit - See sculptors in action as they create the weapons, armor, creatures and miniatures from the film -Atlas of Middle-earth: Tracing the journey of the Fellowship -An interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process -Galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists And much more! DISC 4
-Sending actors to battle - preparation for sword fighting -Principal photography: Stories from the set -Digital effects including motion capture and "Massive" (a program to create armies of Orcs) -"Bigatures" - A close-up look at the detailed miniatures used in the film -Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos -Post-production - editing it all together -Sound design demonstration And much more! DVD-ROM CONTENT: Includes access to exclusive online features I for one will be purchasing this Special Extended Version come November 18th. The Special Extended Version of Fellowship of the Rings was definately the best buy of DVD's in 2002 and I believe this will be no exception. Come onnnn...I know you wanna buy it! We all need out PRECIOUS!
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Summary: Special Features List from Pop-Up On Official Site!!!!
Review: FEATURE (approx. 214 minutes) -
A new version of the second installment in the epic trilogy! The film includes over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film, made especially for this video release:
Widescreen (2.35:1) version of the Special Extended Edition
Dolby Digital EX 5.1 Surround Sound
DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound
Stereo Surround Sound
Four audio commentaries by director and writers, the design team the production team and the cast featuring more than 30 participants including Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom and Academy Award® winners Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Randy Cook...and many more
DISCS 3-4: THE APPENDICES
Two discs with hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design/photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:
DISC 3
Adapting the book into a screenplay & planning the film
Designing and inspiration for locations in Middle-earth
Storyboards to pre-visualization
Weta Workshop visit - See sculptors in action as they create the weapons, armor, creatures and miniatures from the film
Atlas of Middle-earth: Tracing the journey of the Fellowship
An interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process
Galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists
And much more!
DISC 4
Sending actors to battle - preparation for sword fighting
Principal photography: Stories from the set
Digital effects including motion capture and "Massive" (a program to create armies of Orcs)
"Bigatures" - A close-up look at the detailed miniatures used in the film
Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos
Post-production - editing it all together
Sound design demonstration
And much more!
DVD-ROM CONTENT: Includes access to exclusive online features
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Summary: The One and Only
Review: The Original Two Towers was awesome and I cen tell taht the Extended Edition will clear up little confusions and issues. I am so excited this edtionis supossed tobe 45 minutes longer and with tons and tons more extra stuff. I give this five rings
o o o o o (hint,hint)Can 't wait until I have it shipped to me. This one is greater than the first movie and much, much richer. I recommend this film to everyone. You won't be dissapointed.
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Summary: You have to see this movie
Review: Ok, you have to see this movie, if not for the story than because the guys in it are so freaking cute!
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Summary: What has Been Included...and Skipped
Review: Some observations about the film trilogy so far: The total length of the harcover trilogy (not including introductions and appendixes) is 1032 pages. The Fellowship of the Ring - 397 pages
The Two Towers - 340 pages
The Return of the King - 295 pages Jackson's first film ("Fellowship") covered all 397 pages of book one (skipping the Old Forest and Tom Bombadil scenes, which did not bother me) and about 10 pages from (the book) "The Two Towers", for a total movie "page count" of 407 pages. This film, however, covers only 221 pages of (the book) "The Two Towers". It still requires about 220 minutes in this extended edition to cover only a little more than half the written material covered in the first film. This leaves a total of 404 pages (from "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" combined) to be covered in the third film. The reason for the small amount of the trilogy covered in this film is evident in the Theatrical Version...a single chapter in the book (The battle of the Hornburg/Helm's Deep) takes over an hour of the film. This is not a bad thing...but there will have to be a tradeoff. The book "The Return of the King" includes an even bigger battle (Pelennor Fields)...will it get an hour? It should...but it's hard to imagine how even just the most critical scenes not yet covered will all fit in the final film! In his audio commentary on the extended DVD version of "Fellowship" (which is a must listen!), director Jackson reveals he will *not* be including the final battle of the book trilogy (The Scouring of the Shire) in his movie at all, extended or theatrical. This does bother me. Without this scene a main theme of the trilogy is lost. It seems likely that many scenes that occur after the defeat of Sauron will not be included. I can only hope that the extended version of "the Return of the King" will run 5 hours...it will need to.
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Summary: Increadible!!!
Review: The lord of the rings the two towers was simply the best film I have ever seen. It is a more than worthy successor the the fellowship of the ring. Weather you like watching frodo and sam creeping around Mordor or Legolas shooting an arrow through orces' necks it is a simply amazing. Excellently ending with the battle of helm's deep this is a fillm that absoultly anyone can enjoy.
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Summary: One of the best movies ever made!
Review: This movie is absolutely one of the greatest movies ever made. This has a great story as well as great acting and amazing, I mean amazing special effects. Gollum is the best CGI character to date, no questions. Peter Jackson is doing a great job on bringing these films from book to movie. There is a difference between the movie and the book, but so what. To some movie goers 3 hours is way too long and if you put everything that was in the book in this movie, you would have WAY more than a 3 hour movie. This movie ROCKS and if you haven't seen it, DO SO! This Extended Version is going to be awesome (Just like The Fellowship Extended Version was). With up to 43 minutes of added seens, how can you go wrong in buying this. This is the ultimate DVD for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers!
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