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Summary: Stunning
Review: Jackson doesn't believe that the extended version would play well in theaters and that may well be true but I won't go to a theater to watch this trilogy as I want to see every frame he has recorded. He's contributed a beautiful piece of work that we can savor for many years to come.
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Summary: Even more than meets the eye
Review: This extended version puts back in all of the scenes that the directors wanted to keep but due to time restraints were cut out. But what I found the most interesting were the Appendices after the movies. These were just as long and were a pleasure to watch, showing behind the scenes footage of the movies. I would recommend this to anybody who liked the movies or the books.
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Summary: The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers (special edition)
Review: Great movie - great characters - great acting - wonderful special effects - and it even manages funny moments in the midst of parts favorite characters could die any moment. And that is hard to do without making it seem silly, but they've done it here.
And the Special Edition is worth the extra money. It includes deletes scenes, extra commentaries, and much more then the normal version of the DVD.
Recommended for everyone.
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Summary: The Moose Hole - 'Towers' Above the Rest
Review: After much hype and anticipation, it is finally here. The second installment of The Lord of Rings series enters theaters almost one year to the date after the first film became a huge success at the box office. New Line executives are hoping now famous director Peter Jackson can continue the magic not only in the beautiful film making but in the potential box office as well. The first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring, grossed an astonishing $300 million domestically alone with more rolling in as the film opened internationally and became on DVD. After a pretty moderate year based on the number of releases, New Line is hoping for bigger returns with the first sequel. The Two Towers will have many challenges ahead of it including the lessened amount of anticipation that The Fellowship had leading up to its release a year earlier. Can the ring of power rule the box office once more? If Tolkein fans have anything to say, they are just hoping it rules the Oscars as well.The Two Towers picks up where Fellowship left off with Frodo Baggins and Sam heading toward Mount Doom with the ring of power to destroy it. As they draw ever closer to land of Mordor, the two hobbits realize that they are not alone. The creature Gollum, who once possessed the ring, has been following them and later helps them in their quest. Meanwhile, Sarumen has nearly completed his vast army of 10,000 creatures and sets them out to destroy the human race, sparing no one. Elsewhere, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli travel in search of their hobbit friends and come upon the ravaged people of Rohen as they head to the fortress of Helms-Deep in a final standoff again the powers of Sauron. Though the end looks grim, the audience learns that there is hope in even the most desperate situations. Though The Two Towers comes in at a lengthy three hours (two hours and fifty-nine minutes if you want to talk specifics), Peter Jackson does a wonderful job at not making the film feel like such a long feature. The flow of the film is much more consistent then its predecessor which suffered from several lengthy breaks from the action sequences. There are less moments of no action which works all to this films advantage. Most of the characters are the same as they were except for a few new characters that are introduced in The Two Towers. One of those characters is the creature Gollum, who has conflicting emotions and an eerie consciousness of what is going on. But when he expresses those thoughts in the film, they come off more as comic relief then a great dramatic performance. Not an Oscar winning performance in the least. Elijah Wood continues his great performance as Frodo Baggins. He seems pretty confident with this character and though he not seen as much as he was in Fellowship, he plays his limited scenes very well even with the computer generated Gollum, which can prove difficult even for the most experienced actors. John Rhys-Davies' Gimli in turned more into the comic relief of the picture as was the situation with Ron Weasley in Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets but for some reason, it works better here. His character was meant to be the comic relief and those hilarious moments are needed to contrast the many dark aspects of the feature. Orlando Bloom is great at Legolas once again and many will look forward to his performance outside The Lord of the Rings in next summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Overall, The Two Towers achieves a rare feat of out doing its predecessor in almost every aspect of the film making process. Director Peter Jackson doesn't waste a single second of the three hour feature and stylizes everything in a wonderful style. The story is more consistent then that of Fellowship with action sequences spread out and less relay time between one battle sequence and the next. The actors and actresses within the films, much of which were also in Fellowship, seem more in tune with their characters, which is so important in bringing about a truly powerful trilogy such as this. The musical score wasn't quite as accelerating as the previous entry but its does get your heart pounding for the Battle of Helms-Deep near the end. He obviously is important to the story but is he intentionally that annoying? Does the movie-going public need more obnoxious characters like Jar-Jar Binks or Dobby the house elf? At least in the more dramatic moments they could have made him less annoying but made their attempt was to make him as pathetic as possible. Outside of those squabbles, The Two Towers is nothing short of a masterpiece. Fans of the fantasy film series won't be disappointed for sure and those not familiar with the Ring series will find the feature delightfully surprising. Anticipation has already started to build up for the final installment, The Return of the King, next Christmas.
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Summary: Spectacular action and extreme boredom.
Review: The first of the series LOTR's was a slightly better than average movie, but an excellent adaption of the books. This trilogy actually gets better as it goes along. Once I had both enjoyed and suffered through LOTR I, I was able to savor most of TWIN TOWERS, but there were parts that just made me want to take a nap. I am not a fan of extremely long camera shots of facial expressions, especially given the limited range of expressions emotted by some of the hobbits in particular. Liv tyler also only had one facial expression, her grim poker face. I give LOTRF 4 stars and RETURN OF THE KING 5 stars. The special effects and the masterful battle sceens are an absolute WOW! This is the best trilogy since Star Wars, and due to the evolution of cinematography, is aguably now the best trilogy in existance.
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Summary: Great Movie, Really Long!
Review: Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers is an awesome movie. If you thought the first one was long, get out the popcorn and get comfortable because this movie has tons of footage not seen in the theatre! I don't suggest this for kids under the age of 12 because it is so long and they might get bored easily. Other than that, there is nothing except a violent war scene that would be bad for them to watch. I love the excellent extra features which explain how the movie was made, and has commentaries with the people that made the film. What is better than that? Overall, this is a must-have DVD!
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Summary: Great if you haven't read the books.
Review: I have seen all 3 LOTR movies and LOVED them soooo much, but if you have read the books, some parts don't seem that great. The first movie (Fellowship) probably fallowed the book the best. The worst at fallowing the book was definantly the 3rd one, but The Two Towers was alright. It has several stupid parts in it, especially where Legolas "grinds" down a staircase in the middle of a battle. Everything else was alright though. I wouldnt reccoment it for young children though, because my 9 year old sister hated it~~ there are a lot of battle scenes and gory parts, plus the oarks can be kind of freaky looking. The story might be hard for younger children to fallow so they might get bored faster. It is a kind of complicated subject but Overall, it is a great movie, though.
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Summary: why split up the movie? to make more MONEY!! >:(
Review: i absolutely HATE the fact that both extended LOTR editions split up the movie on two discs. That's absolutely absurd. The Gladiator DVD has TONs of material on both discs, so the technology is definitely there. DVD's can hold way more than 3.5 hours that the movie is. Other than that annoying trait that's obviously not going to change (because they can charge more for 4-discs than 2), this is a great edition that fills in a few more blanks that the theatrical version had to have to fit into studio preferred time limits.
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Summary: Building excitement
Review: Character development, building stress of the conflict, all of this is done to perfection in TTT.
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Summary: A Trilogy Review
Review: I decided to hold off reviewing this beloved epic until I have seen it in its entirety and now that I have I confidently and enthusiastically cry out a big WOW for the most impressive epic film ever made. Every single aspect of this film is infused with Peter Jackson's (director) ingenious and exquisite vision. The colossal production is very evident throughout the trilogy and the mesmerizing special effects are exactly that ... mesmerizing. Filming this epic in one shot was perhaps the most brilliant idea Peter Jackson had for this film. Over the past three years, every December fans take off from where we left off the previous year without feeling a discrepancy here or there in the characters, the landscape or pace. It's as if we were suspended in the no-time zone for a year after year ready to experience the magic of the Ring. The ensemble cast is magnificent as well. I cannot pick favorites (even though I loved Sam Gamgee) for that every single actor did an outstanding job depicting his/her character and together they played an ethereal symphony Beethovenian in caliber. J. R. R. Tolkien's characters represented the full gamut of human nature and Peter Jackson was able to recreate that on the screen with stark detail. From the peace-loving, innocent hobbits to the evil and sinister Orcs lies the perpetually confused, unpredictable man. The epic in a way represents the microcosm of life: a perpetually peculiar battle between perceived good and perceived evil. Fall from grace, confusion, dilemmas, hard decisions, community strength, courage and triumph are some of the many underlying themes of this universally adored work of art. Some people have dismissed this film as a "fantasy flick", but in reality it is an epic with an incredible impact like that of Ben Hur's, Spartacus' and Gladiator's combined! This film is one of my all time favorites and I do recommend it to all.
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