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Summary: Darn Near Perfect
Review: The Two Towers is a fine film- I saw it several times. Visually, it is spectacular. The soundtrack works almost too well. After seeing the first film several times, the same music gets to be a little tired and predictable. They could have used a little more variety, but it does fit what you see. Its' real strength in is its' apparent central theme- resolute faith. Arargorn, Legolas, and Frodo waver a bit from time to time, but persevere in the face of seemingly impossible odds. Only Gandalf, Sam, and Gimli seem unshakable throughout this film. Separated and faced with overwhelming enemies, the various heroes of this film stand tall and give up neither on what they are fighting for nor each other. Though tempted to divide up and run, Men, Elves, Ents, Hobbits, and a Dwarf eventually all stand and fight evil simultaneously. The comic relief provided by Gimli and Gollum give the audience occasional relief from the intense action and moments of despair that run through this film.There are a few little problems with it. The Orcs that get killed early on can smell Aragorn from some distance, but get taken completely by surprise from a mass of horsemen. What happened to their keen senses? Legolas misses some critical shots with his bow as the Orcs blast a hole through the walls of helms deep. What happened to his astounding abilities as an archer? He makes far more difficult shots under pressure, but fails this time. Also, Sam never losses his gut, even though he complains of a lack of food and is constantly on the move. There are a few jokes about his girth, yet they make it seem as if he should be wasting away. Also, Gandalf's remark about looking to him at sunrise gives too much away. It would have been better to leave more doubt in the minds of those who had not already read these books.
These flaws are, however, minor. This is a great story, with great dialogue, scenery, and acting, and spectacular effects. The notion of a few standing against evil and resisting temptation, even against seemingly impossible odds is an old theme, but still works. It works spectacularly when an imaginative author can draw upon classic mythology (largely Norse) to create such a story. Modern technology helps to make this all look and sound 'authentic'. Two Towers is almost as good as 'Fellowship' and that is saying much.
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Summary: Superb on Many Levels
Review: Peter Jackson's second of three film versions of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is superb in many ways. As an adaptation of the book, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" this is as authentic as a film can get. Like its predecessor, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings", this film blends the perfect degree of realism and fantasy so that the viewer is comfortably ensconced between the two. Like the Middle Earth of the books, the one in this film is believable, yet clearly an imaginary world. The film picks up where its predecessor left off. The dark lord of a powerful evil empire launches multiple wars of aggression. In the process of doing this, he abrogates all the treaties that preserve the peace in Middle Earth, he destroys the environment, including living forests, for his short-term gain, and he deliberately targets civilians in his military campaign. The seemingly omnipotent dark lord possesses powerful weapons of mass destruction including an air force of invincible wraiths, artillery and mobile divisions of Orks and other insensate humanoids. Equally as powerful is his surveillance system, a large telepathic eye that provides him with total information awareness. Although his plans for global hegemony of Middle Earth really require no assistance, the dark lord allies himself with a formerly benign wizard who serves as the junior partner of his invasion plans. By the time the other nations of Middle Earth form a defensive alliance against the dark lord, it appears to be too late. Realizing that the only way to stop the evil leader is to destroy the ring of power, Frodo, Sam, and company head to Mount Doom in order to cast it into the flames from which it was forged. Realizing that he must prevent them from doing this, the dark lord launches a preemptive strike against Minas Tirath, and Gondor, with the eventual goal of conquering the third part of this axis, the Shire itself. The battle scenes that follow are fantastic, and I won't describe them in detail for fear of giving anything away, but it is safe to say that they involve multiple simultaneous effects based operations whose purpose is to achieve rapid dominance. This film is entertaining, largely faithful to the text, and timely.
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Summary: A dumb hollywood version of an absolutely classic story
Review: Don't be fooled. Apart from the most basic elements of the book's storyline, Peter Jackson's version is very different. Characterizations, dialogue, secondary plots, locations; nothing has been spared the poisoned razor of the Jackson crew. While it may be a 'big' film (in that it cost a lot of money and has been widely hyped), it is a real disappointment in terms of what it could have delivered. The changes in The Two Towers are so significant, an extended edition will only further the bizarre and shallow changes that were made. As for the people that claim that they understand why P. Jackson made the changes, perhaps you could explain it to the people that don't. This isn't Tolkien's Middle-earth. It's Jackson's, and it should be stated as such. I'm waiting for a version that pays homage to the beauty of the book's original dialogue (among many other things), and not a film rife with modern Americanisms ('let's hunt some orc!' Argh!) Strangely, the Ralph Bakshi animated version is truer to the orginal story than this soul-less blockbuster.
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Summary: For a long movie, it's my favorite
Review: I would see it over and over again if I could. It's a great movie with action, suspence,fantisy, and it keeps you wondering, "Are they gonna make it?" For a second there, I thought that Gandolf was dead. He's pretty brave to fight that Shadow monster while they're falling over 50 feet. Aragon and Legolas are my FAVORITE. I like Legolas's bow and arrow skill. I like how the beginning starts with the three people are running and that dwarf is trying to keep up. Newayz, it's a great movie which I recommend everyone see, even if you're not into non-reality type movies.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: The special effects are wonderful. They did the book some justice. Well done.
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Summary: The Turn of the Tide
Review: Here a wizard is reborn, a king is reawakened, a war is joined, and the dawn finally breaks. I was fortunate enough to see a pre-release version of this DVD in widescreen. Based on this I am quite willing to call this one of the finest films that I have ever seen. This applies to the quality of the acting, the dramatic power of the script, and the believability of the special effects. Personally, I didn't see a single flaw. And I understand that the commercial version will be even better with added scenes and features. As for those purists who find fault with this film, well, I've read the trilogy through at least three times over the last quarter century and I saw nothing that was significantly unfaithful to the original story. If anything, this version reminded me of many details that I had forgotten. Believe me, if there would have been anything that rang false to the spirit of the original I would have spotted it. Now all our hopes lie with two small hobbits in the wilderness- I can't wait for the release of the third part to the saga.
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Summary: Review of the theatrical version
Review: By far the best film of the year and possibly the best film ever.
You don't neccessarily have to watch Fellowship to understand this movie, but it would definately make you enjoy it more.
Also, if you are aren't one of the 100,000,000+ people who have read the book, do yourself a favor and begin reading it today. Together, the book and the movie are the greatest source of legal entertainment around.
Rating:
Summary: a masterpiece
Review: I don't have much to add to what has already been said about this wonderful movie. I just wanted to take a few minutes to say that I really loved it and that I am very grateful to all the people who worked hard to bring us this film. The actors all did wonderful jobs. The costumes and visual effects were stunning. There were some changes made from the book but I didn't mind. I realize that changes have to be made to accomodate the differences between movies and books and so that those who haven't read the books can understand and enjoy the movie as well. I think that Peter Jackson has done a wonderful job adapting Tolkien's books. I saw the movie four times in the theater and I will buy both versions of the film on DVD.
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Summary: It's Better Than The Movie Musical "Chicago"
Review: "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" did win two spectacular Oscars, but it was robbed by some terrible movie musical so called "Chicago". "The Two Towers" should have won more than just two Oscars! It should have even won the Oscar for Best Motion Picture of the Year. But no! It was robbed by some dumb movie musical! "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is the true best movie of 2002, not "Chicago" (which stunk)! Oh well. Maybe "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" will do better at the Oscars next year. But, anyway, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is a wonderful movie! It had an awsome battle scene, good drama, and mind blowing visual effects. "The Two Towers" is even better than it's great Oscar, winning, prequel "The Fellowship of the Ring". "The Two Towers" is my favorite movie until "The Return of the King", which will be it's phenomenal sequel.
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Summary: ~Fa_v~Movie~ever~
Review: This movie dis great. it has everything a movie has da ofer. i hav read tTt and ~the fellow of the ring and is nearly finished the return of king. pete changed it alot. Gollum is suprisingly funny.(LOL)i thought hed be scary. gimli is also funny. pippin is no longer funny but treebeard is lololololol. it is a bit messy but day only had 1 year. the urukai at da beginning are cool.Grishnak chases pippin and Merry for a while. The battle with legolas,gimli and aragorn are cool. At helms deep Haredk`(galadriel's husband)dies sadly(Spoilers ahead). Saruman is gladly happy to send 10,000 orcs to edoras at grima's worry. treebeard and the army of ents help destroy whats left of isengard. gondor isn't really in dit but you see da city. the nazgul fellbeasts are wicked. So what is next.(SSSPPPOOOIIILLEERR)who will die with the ring??~Will It Be SaM,frodo,aragon,grimalegolas,gimli or thats right GOLLUM!!!!!
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