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Summary: okay, well
Review: saw it on valentine's day. for the second time... decided that i really, really and i mean, really love this movie.forget what i complained on my first review. this is just a damn good movie. have decided that i can live with the "artistic liberties" jackson took with this movie. i mean, i guess i can live with the fact that movie-faramir is just totally different from book-faramir... i may not like it, but i can swallow that. good gawd, i have to say that i absolutely love the fighting scenes in this one. man, it blew my mind away!!! it was just totally crazy and beautiful at the same time... i'm speechless really... one of the best entrances yet has to be when gandalf and eomer arrived on the eastern side of the mountain on the fifth morning. stunning and breathtaking. gawd i love the scene where the riders descend from that frigging steep mountain side... *looks like stunned fish* just amazing... and yes, this is definitely a movie for a girls' night out (or even v-day for singles like moi)... come on, there's like, what? nearly a half dozen of exceedingly beautiful male main characters? not to mention tons of other good enough to eat extras thrown in for good measure. you gotta be kidding me if that is not a good enough reason for girls to go see it... *grin* but heck, this is way beyond anything i've seen before. and it's a darn good movie too. kudos to jackson for not letting down the hopes of the legions of fans... good news is that LotR: the return of the king promises to be even better. the bad news is we have to wait for a freaking year for that one... i'm counting the days, man...
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Summary: "The Lord of Boredom"- A supreme dissapointment.
Review: Exciting? Definiately not! This movie makes abseloutely no scense whatsoever, and you would think the action would make you on the edge of your seat every time. Rong. Instead you get an overated, 3hr. long, compromising ..., repetative actions scenes that are suppose to resemble a movie. The actors are dismal with little acting experience, all the action reigns way to long, and talking trees?- Thats just crazy. All in all, I do not recommend this subpar "thriller".
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Summary: breath taking :D
Review: hey the first one was pretty cool why not see the second one i thought to myself i want see what happens next well when i saw the two towers it just completely dwarfed the fellowship of the rings I STRONGLY RECOMEND WAIT SCRATCH THAT I STRONGLY ORDER YOU TO GO AND SEE IT RIGHT NOW YOU GOTTA SEE IT ON YHE BIG SCREEN
if you dont you'll be missing out on alot (any one who rates this under 4 stars dont listen to those ratings )if you didn't like the first one (then screw you)you'll still like this one any thing i say is an under statment i can only say go and watch it.
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Summary: just as good as the first
Review: this movie filled my expectations and then some. my man legolas kicked some major orc [behind], gimli was hillarious and aragorn was as serious as in the first movie with just a little more ferocity added in. the sequences with frodo, sam and gollum were well shot. lastly treebeard and the rest of the ents were some serious competitors for sauruman at orthanc. overall the movie was great, the soundtrack was great(everyone loves that uplifting title song) and the cg was state of the art. ...
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Summary: Fantasy to the Fantastic
Review: I will confess the first fifth of the film is a little bit slow. After that, run for your life. It's a blaze of medieval battle, twisted emotions, mythical creatures, magical powers, gorgeous landscapes, and massive strongholds. This being second in the trilogy, I think we were all worried it wouldn't be as good as the first: It's better! This one has dragons and probably almost an hour and a half of straight battle.
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Summary: A View From The Towers
Review: Looking back a few years it seems quite extraordinary that any studio would have even thought twice about plowing a multi-million dollar figure into making the rings trilogy. Even if the films were average they by law of averages would still have made a decent profit. When the first installment in the trilogy hit the screens last year it was an awesome sight, this was a film that blended todays modern effects with the traditional scenery that New Zealand had to offer to give a film that not mnay studios make anymore. It's sucess was deserved and it's snub by the major awards for best picture was a joke. Now we have the middle part known as The Two Towers. To see this movie you really have to have seen the first one and I'd imagine quite a few of us have. At the end of the last movie we saw the fellowship split. Frodo and Sam left to continue their journey towards Mordor. Gandalf was seemingly gone while Merry and Pippin were captured leaving Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli in the quest to find them. This movie picks up where we left off and follows each of the stories. Each one of them interwoven into the big picture as the ring controls the destiny. By far the most interesting part of the movie is Frodo and Sam's journey, this is because they are joined by Gollum, one of the rings previous holders. Gollum is a split personality, his former self Smeagol destroyed by the rings power. Gollum is a CGI creation voiced by Andy Serkis and is by far the best thing in the movie. The effects work is outstanding and the majority of the time Gollum is incredibly photo realisitic, there has been talk of an Oscar nomination and yes the work by Serkis by doing the voice and performance is that good. Elsewhere the big attraction is battle at helms deep, this is the big set piece that has been talked about for months and it doesn't disappoint. CGI and live action melt together to give the effect of over 10,000 orcs marching towards the walls of Helms Deep. This is sheer blood and guts action as swords cross with flaming torches while explosions reign seige and the rain hammers down. It's a stunning spectacle that has to be seen on the big screen. Because of these two plotlines there has to be somthing that is relegated to the background and that's Merry and Pippin's story, their altercation with Treebeard is great but it's pretty slight in the grand scheme of things and it just feels like we're cutting ack to them to keep them in the whole of the story. However at the end there is a big payoff and once again it's an outstanding work of special effects. I suppose the big question to be asked is "Is this as good as the last film?". I would say that it isn't purely because there is more than one story to concentrate on and at times you may loose track of what is happening. But compared to everything else this is still an amazing achievement in film-making and one that demands to be seen.
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Summary: At a loss for words
Review: I had already read the book by the time I watched Two Towers, unlike with FOTR. I liked FOTR, saw it twice in theaters and twice in DVD (original and expanded versions). And you know what? I never tired of it. Of course, I did have to stifle a yawn, but nothing that can't be cured by hitting the pause button, gulping a cup of coffee and resuming. So I had great expectations for Two Towers. I mean, I liked the book. The movie has to be very good. Somewhere before the end of the movie, when Treebeard - going back to his home after the entmoot concluded with the ents saying "this is not our war" - had got his first eyeful of the desolation around Isengard, the old ent was suddenly at a loss for words. Somewhere in the old Entish, he said, there must be a word to describe what he just saw, but couldn't figure out what it was. I almost wanted to scream: BETRAYAL! It would have been a perfect fit, both for what Saruman did, and for what the filmmakers did. I am not by any means a book fanatic. I've read a few, but the titles alone of the books I've NOT read will fill an entire book. But I've read the Lord of the Rings, and I know I don't like what I saw in the movie. My seat-of-the-pants meter does not lie, Two Towers left me cramped, tired and bored. I'm not sure I'll ever watch it again, or even buy it in video form. Yes, there are the character changes, not only to Faramir and the ents, but also to Gandalf, Legolas and Theoden. Those who justify those changes as necessary because time is too short to flesh out the narrative apparently ignore that the filmmakers actually spent considerable time too in showing the alterations. Those precious minutes could have been spent staying faithful to the story, or to its spirit. Faramir- IMO, the whole trouble of getting to Osgiliath and showing that Faramir was no more than a poor copy of his brother was a waste of screen time. Those who say the changes in Faramir's character were OK and consistent with the idea that the Ring is irresistible to men have not been watching/reading the story. The Ring is not irresistible, otherwise there would have been no hope. Tom Bombadil is not affected by it. Galadriel, a "senior" and wise elf, desires it (although she resisted), yet the Ring had no effect on young Legolas whatsoever. Gimli could have withstood it, after all, dwarves have always been difficult subjects for Sauron, and somehow, the Ring has no effect on Gimli either! Boromir fell to it, but Aragorn, as was plain to see, did not. The hobbits Gollum, Bilbo and Frodo found it hard to give the Ring up, yet Sam gives it away without much thought. Obviously the Ring's effect on people is not uniform. Now, suppose we stay faithful to the book and Faramir ignores the Ring and sends Frodo on his way. Is that too much to ask? Ents - in the novel, the Ents not only destroy Isengard, they also help save the day at the Hornburg. In the third part, in the Appendix, we see that the Ents also protect Rohan while Theoden marches to Gondor to aid Denethor. Instead in the movie, the Ents, after a long discussion, decide not to interfere ("This is not our war"), only to be roused by one cry from Treebeard. What is this, Pearl Harbor? And the Ents were not terrifying enough, they were too slow. Couldn't Jackson at least watch a marauding bull elephant on National Geographic and take it from there? Gandalf in the movie also regards Theoden as incapable of making sound decisions, and thinks that the retreat to Helm's Deep was an act of suicide. But in the book, it was Gandalf who tells Theoden to scrap the plan to go to the Fords and proceed directly to Helm's Deep. Above all his tricks (only few of which he displayed), Gandalf's greatest magical act is his capacity to TRUST the free peoples of Middle Earth, to see the good in them. He alone trusted the hobbits with anything important (Bilbo, Frodo, etc.) and he certainly trusted men. Also in the movie, Gandalf asks Aragorn to look after Theoden before the old man hurts himself. What was that about? Aragorn was a great hero, but the fact is, at the time in question, he had no army, and only his sword to offer. He's practically a guest, a freelance. He's supposed to look after the Rohirrim who are hopelessly clueless? And why leave them to the care of this weak-kneed movie version of Aragorn? This Aragorn could not have descended from Elendil, Elros, Beren or Barahir. Legolas actually lost hope in this movie, and it took Aragorn's "I will die with them" (a rare display of strength) to convince him the battle is worth fighting. I always thought Legolas had no fear, except when he saw his first Balrog. And he recovered even from that. Again, there is this tendency to prolong the battle scenes, obviously to sell the movie. The important reunion of the hobbits with their friends and their meeting with Theoden (Merry and Theoden, remember?) was omitted. All for an extended battle that still falls short of exciting. And what were the elves doing in Rohan shooting in unison? The fairest, most creative of the peoples of Middle Earth, reduced to mere automatons? Aragorn directing the archers? Didn't we see enough of that in FOTR's intro? Do I dislike the movie because of these changes? No, it's because the changes were not even worth the trouble. And oh, did I get tired, and bored and sleepy!
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Summary: A lot better
Review: I have to say that 'The Two Towers" is a lot better than the first film (by far). I was fairly impressed by this movie and found it exiting in parts - which kept me awake. Generally better acting this time and with the introduction of new charactors, whom I always forget the wierd names, made for a more enjoyable movie. I noticed the CGI effects appeared more seemless and realistic - but unfortunately we are still getting sweeping aerial shots with thousands of minature people (still looks like a computer game). I'm a firm believer that CGI effects do not make a film better and in a lot of cases it tends to detract from the storyline. Some of the fighting sequences were brilliant towards the end - however the (Predator) Orcs appear to be incredibly week for their huge size - Aragorn and Gimli (apparently invincible) are able to kill vast numbers with ease. What holds this film above the 'Fellowship of The Rings' is the greater development of the main charactors and better pacing. I found Gollum was slightly overdone with the repeated screeching of 'precious' throughout the entire film. Besides this I found the film enjoyable and worth while seeing. Hopefully the third installment will be even better....
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Summary: THE best movie around to this day
Review: The Lord of the Rings the Two Towers is fabulous!The battle scenes makes you feel like you are in the war of the Two Towers! Treebeard and the other Ents was very funny ,and the return of Gandalf was surprising. Overall, the movie was action-pacted and the music was breath taking. I loved this film and definatly think that it is THE best movie around to this very day. See it, you'll be totally blown away.
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Summary: The Masterpiece Continues...
Review: After 'The Fellowship of the Ring' blazed across cinema screens in all its glory, it was really hard to imagine any film topping it off. Well, those who had read the book knew that what was to come would wipe the first film off the slate. Now, 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' is here, and it has done the impossible - it IS better!
The film seamlessly runs straight from the first to the second, where we get an even better glimpse at what happened to Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) on the Bridge of Khazad-Dum. The story then continues. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) are in pursuit of the hobbits, Merry (Dominic Monohan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd), who have been kidnapped by a band of Suruman's (Christopher Lee) orcs. But the hobbits escape, and hide in Fangorn Forest, where they are rescued by a walking, talking tree called Treebeard. The Three Hunters also go into the forest, where they meet someone they don't expect. Soon, these four are off to Edoras, the capital of Rohan, which is under siege from Saruman. Meanwhile, Frodo (Elijiah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) continue towards Mordor. However, they are being followed by Gollum still, and the hobbits capture the snivelling creature and force him to lead them to Mordor.
Once again, Peter Jackson has outdone all expectations. The internal, psychological elements that were so irresistable in the first are back better than ever. Gollum is the most well-portrayed character, giving the creature much more psychological depth than expected. And, as usual, the jaw-dropping special effects continue. The last ten minutes of 'The Two Towers' is the most amazing, breathtaking ten minutes of cinema ever created. It literally leaves you gasping for air.
When it comes to great movies, this film is there. When it comes to brilliant movies, this one is there. Even when it comes to the exclusive catagory of masterpiece, this film, along with its predesessor, is there. There is no doubt that 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' is the best film of the year. But the best thing is that, watching it, you know that what is coming up in twelve months time, the third and final instalement, 'The Return of the King' will be even better than this. After all, the only thing better than a Lord of the Rings film is another Lord of the Rings film.
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