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Summary: Don't forget to watch the two bonus DVD's!
Review: It's an amazing movie and the extra 43 minutes makes everything flow much more smoothly even for the novel readers. The thing I would suggest is to watch the bonus material first. It makes you appreciate everything more and look at details that you may have overlooked before. It's amazing that Peter Jackson and everyone involved could do such a wonderful job given their time and budget. Watching the extras makes you wish you could have been a part of the production...this is a must own DVD.
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Summary: YOU MUST OWN this Extended Edition of The Two Towers!!!!!!!!
Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was a great movie and a tremendous achievement in filmmaking. It reminded me so much of what George Lucas accomplished with The Empire Strikes Back, and the movie has that feel that it is a medevial Empire Strikes Back. But Lucas has now disgraced the Star Wars franchise with Episodes I and II. Thank God we have a director named Peter Jackson, who has more than made up for our disappointment with The Lord of the Rings. This Lord of the Rings film trilogy will be embraced by audiences for years to come.But is all this praise good enough for Jackson? No. Jackson wanted to go the extra mile and present to us fans the second part of a trilogy, the movie that he knew we wanted to see in theaters. And he presents it to us in this Extended Edition of The Two Towers. This movie is not just 43 minutes longer, it is 43 minutes BETTER! The only way you will ever see a movie like this in a movie theater is on Trilogy Tuesday, prior to The Return of The King, on December 17, 2003. What will you get in this Extended Edition? A lot. I mean, A LOT! I do not want to spoil it for any of you, because it is best that you just stick the DVDs into your DVD player, push Play, and just watch the movie to see what a difference 43 minutes makes. But a couple of scenes I will mention include Eowyn asking Aragorn on how old he is (87, BTW) and a homage to Tom Bombadil (yes, finally, for those of you thought that Tom Bombadil was permanently left out of The Lord of the Rings, Jackson has listened and responded!). Oh, and Miranda Otto showcases her singing during a scene where they bury King Theoden's son. This Extended Edition of The Two Towers also requires a superior sound system. The movie has been remastered in DTS 6.1, which is superior digital surround sound. You will notice the difference. When Saruman announces that "A new power is rising" to 10,000 Orcs, the chants are loud and furious!!!!! Imagine being in a football stadium of about 80,000 screaming fans. That is how loud the chants are. And the Battle of Helm's Deep...run for cover, it is an earthquake. I have yet to browse through discs 3 and 4, but I can say that Peter Jackson has clearly developed a tremendous adaptation of one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written. The Extended Editions of both The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers prove it. Now we have to wait another year for the Extended Edition of The Return of the King!
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Summary: Extended Version makes even a great film much greater!!!
Review: Adds more depth and fleshes out characters more fully than the theater version. Hours and hours of special features will keep you entertained for a long time. This is the version to buy. Fans rejoice!
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Summary: As Indiana Jones Said, "NO TICKET!"
Review: Greetings one and all,
I must say that I'm a hardcore lOTR fan. This box set is great and all the special features fill my mind many times over. But there is a downside. WHERE'S MY FREE TICKET TO Return Of The King? I loved the fact that there was a free ticket in the fellowship box set but now we all get the cold shoulder for the last movie. Whats the deal there? Great Item but lacks the expected return.
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Summary: Problematic Prince of Ithilien
Review: Lord of the Rings is my all-time favorite novel!!
And Peter Jackson's outstanding interpretation and adaptation does Tolkien's creation the most justice it has received since its original publication.
This said, I have one very small, but justified complaint on Jackson's take.
WHY, oh why, the Faramir-as-Boromir character cloning?? Faramir, as everyone who's read the book and loved his character, will tell you, was Frodo's best friend next to Sam in his trecherous journey through Middle Earth. To lose this comrade and help is to MAR the beauty of Tolkien's vision. We encounter too much repetition in a movie that is already full of it! (repetition of men being depraved and power-hungry slaves, repetition of Arwen's tossing away immortality, repetition of Frodo's struggle with the Ring...) While reminders do need to be dashed in here and there, as the movies are released one year apart, this was disappointing. The refreshing character of Faramir could have served as a reprieve from the chaos and uncertainty that poor Frodo and Sam faced, as it did in the novel. This violence and urgent movement from Faramir that PJ and cohorts think necessary absolutely was NOT necessary to keep the audience interested. I think it would have made more of an impression had Faramir been portrayed as the unique, truly-good, Aragorn-like character he was and not the brooding, rejected, less-favored, yet determined-to-be-well-thought-of son of Denethor into which Jackson made him. Tolkien's character is fully worthy of this speech: "I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and glory." This is a much different Faramir than in the movies, despite where he ends up when they part and his "quality" is finally shown. His "quality" was shown in that speech, would they have only left it in!
I can understand and did enjoy pretty much everything else: the flowerly love story of Aragorn and Arwen, something I thought was beautifully shot and necessarily emphasized. The madness of Helm's Deep was perfect! The endless fighting and hopelessness they at times felt was right on.
I liked the interpretation of Treebeard and the Ents. I enjoyed Eowyn and Eomer immensely and Theoden, despite his uncharacteristic stubborness. Though they did not empty the city, this gimmick works rather well. The urgency to keep Helm's Deep standing is not amplified. While mountain dwellers lived there, we did not have the time to be introduced to them, and their fate thus seemed unimportant. To have an entire city threatened was very clever indeed. Theoden's "exorcism" scene was an improvement upon the novel's subtlety and implied control of Saruman. His metamorphosis back to his original self, touching. Wormtongue was slithering, bastardly creepiness in the clever hands of Brad Dourif.
And Gollum was perfection and everything I (and countless others) imagined him as, from as early on as "the Hobbit".
All in all, it's still a fantastic movie! Just a little flawed. The Prince of Ithilien still balks at his mutilated role, however, as do his faithful following.
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Summary: An already great film is made even better.
Review: At last we have the extended edition of The Two Towers. It was certainly worth the wait. Those of us who bought the extended version of Fellowship of the Ring know what to expect. A superior, richer version of the film and enough bonus features for ten movies. And that's exactly what we get. The extended version of The Two Towers improves on an already great film. The difference is not huge, but fans of the book will certainly appreciate the added detail. Most appreciated, in my opinion, is the extended finale which I think works much better than the abbreviated end of the theatrical film. The events following the Battle of Helm's Deep are greatly fleshed out in this version. I also loved the new scene with Merry and Pippin discovering Saruman's storehouse at Isengard. I loved all the new and extended scenes, and feel that the story is greatly enriched by them. Obviously, the extended version is going to be the one to own for fans, but it's good that the theatrical version is available also. Casual viewers may find the film's 223-minute running time a bit daunting. However, if you watch it in two parts, it's not difficult at all to sit through. For anyone who loves these films, the Extended Edition is an essential purchase. These are quite simply the most comprehensive DVD collections that have ever been produced. The films, Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers are among the finest of this generation. Return of the King will no doubt be the same.
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Summary: Two Towers TOWERS over other special edition DVD's!!!
Review: Without giving away any of the plot details, I must say that this special extended edition really does come out as special. The viewer sees so much that they had not seen before and fans of the books may be swayed into liking the filmed series that much more. The set comes with a new edit which has 43 extra minutes(!) and two extra discs FILLED with interviews, observations, works in progress, and galleries... I just finished watching the film with the extras, and must say, I was REALLY impressed. There are two discs filled with JUST supplementals, so the price for the set is WELL worth it. I am a fan of the books first, and a fan of adaptations second, but you cannot go wrong with this set, it will be a joy to behold. Enjoy!!!
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Summary: ¡¡amazing!!
Review: is one of the most memorable movies in all time....a leyend make movies..
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Summary: A bunch of liars...
Review: Yeah...I gotta love how these nerds come on here and talk about how they saw an "early" version of the new edit of Peter Jacksons epic The Two Towers, yet they say nothing but mindless rhetoric such as " I won't ruin it for anyone but..." or "IT IS BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL"...in CAPS. Thats about as profound and useless as football broadcasters telling us during the game that " the team that lets up the most touchdowns in this game is gonna have a hard time winning the game!". What a bunch of morons. This idiot probably hasn't even seen the extended version (prior to it's release date, but nerd boy probably was at tower records at midnight to be the first of all his nerd friends to get the first copy) but still had to come on here and make everyone feel like he had some kind of insider information about the new edit, which we know he really didn't. Look, fork face....say something worth saying or go back into your garage and continue your 78 hour long game of Dungeons and dragons with Skippy and the rest of the Information and technology department from your work and don't come out till you have killed the 3 headed dragon with a +25 hit damage dark magic mace. Friggin jerk offs.... For all you others.....See this movie. It is truely a spectacular acheivement in movie making. Nuff said.
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Summary: What more can you ask for in this? It's all here!
Review: First off, for those so-called "purists", I remember specifically in the Special Edition of FOTR that Peter Jackson stated that he and his entire crew wanted to make a movie "based" on Tolkien's masterpiece that would be suitable for those that have read the books and for those that have not yet done so and still stay true to the overall story. He has done that in my honest opinion. Therefore, in the scenes where Merry and Pippin meet up with the White Wizard, and when Aragorn falls off the cliff, the movie leaves the viewers who have not read the books in a state of suspense. It keeps their attention and adds some adventure to the movie. For those of us that have read the books, we know what the outcome will be. To me, there is nothing wrong with this at all. The overall story has NOT been changed. Peter Jackson's goal was to create a movie that would hopefully bring in even more fans to read the books and to introduce them to what JRR Tolkien had worked so hard to create: a world with it's own history, languages and people that pulls the reader in and makes them forget about the real world for a few hours. Peter Jackson has done that with his rendition of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. It stays faithful to the overall story, which is the quest for the one ring, and it's destruction. Unfortunately, the purists are selfish in their feelings, but they are in the minority here. In this extended version of the Two Towers, new scenes have been added while others have been extended. Over 200 new visual effects were added and Howard Shore once again has redone the musical score as they did for the extended version of FOTR. The appendices are excellent. The appendices in the FORT and the Two Towers are examples of how DVD's should be put together. Hours upon hours of behind the scenes documentaries exist that are not slapped together, but put into a logical order. As with the FOTR, you have the option to play all of them together with one press on your remote or to watch them separately at your leisure. The Map of Middle Earth is back to show the continuation of the journeys of the broken Fellowship, which to me is a wonderful tool. I know that once I got into the Two Towers and ROTK in the books, I had a hard time following where the events were taking place and where everyone was traveling. Those questions have been answered with this DVD. Also, there is a hidden Easter egg on the first DVD of the movie with Gollum and the MTV awards that is hilarious. Not as funny as the SNL skit on FOTR, but still hilarious. If you found the Easter eggs on the extended version of FOTR, then you'll know how to get it on the Two Towers. I'm eagerly awaiting the final chapter, interested in seeing how Peter Jackson has transferred the book to film. So far, I must say he has done a commendable job. I felt that the theatrical version of the Two Towers telling of the various stories seemed almost too short and slapped together. I think it's because so much of the story had to be left out that fleshed out the details, especially with Treebeard and the Ents. However, more of that story has now been added to this special extended version and this, like the FOTR extended version, is surely going to please the rest of us even more than the original theatrical version. This movie rates 5 stars in my book. It's an awesome adventure that I can watch again and again.
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