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Summary: If you can't wait, don't cry...
Review: If you can't wait for a widescreen/special edition version, than stop complaining when you end up with a full screen version. Production companies may very well be trying to get more money off of people buy releasing different versions. But all you need to do is WAIT for the version you really want. It's not like whining will change the mind of a corporate exec.
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Summary: Easily one of the best DVDs ever!
Review: We all know that special features are a very important part of the DVD buying experience. This DVD will keep you busy (and interested) for hours. Long after you've watched this extraordinary epic, you will continue to be entertained by the entire cast and crew of the Lord of the Rings. DVD editions like this are the reason we have DVD players. If you don't own this movie yet, or if you own the standard edition of The Two Towers, please, please buy this special edition for your collection.
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Summary: so much better
Review: This extnded release of this series is by far better than its theatrical release. I loved every second of it. It was well worth the time.
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Summary: deserves every last star
Review: The Lord of the Rings. What can I say? Is it a good movie? I would definitely say so. Absolutely. No parts where you have to listen to actors cussing at each other, no parts that you have to skip over because of......certain things....all good. Excellent.
It sounds weird, a book where the main bad guy is.......a Ring. Sounds weird at first. And then they make a movie about a Ring? But hey, if you think it's gonna be dumb because of that, you are so wrong it makes me cringe.
The Two Towers especially. It picks up about three days after the FOTR ended, continuing the journeys of Frodo and Sam, Merry and Pippin, and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli. And #2 has some pretty good battle scenes. Helm's Deep. Oooohhh baby......watch those Elves fire arrow after arrow after arrow and never miss......watch those Uruk-Hai growl and hack their enemies to pieces....watch as Aragorn slices and dices them to pieces effortlessly......yeah.
The special effects are amazing. The models, the scenery, all of it is beautiful. And the music is the best I have ever heard. Ever. Howard Shore, congratulations. You deserved that Oscar for Fellowship of the Ring and I hope you get it for Return of the King this year.
I just love the triumphant scenes in this movie. Two Towers closes with an amazing scene of Gandalf and 2,000 Rohirrim charging down a ridge to Helm's Deep into the faces of thousands of insane, reckless, fearless Uruk-Hai. The music in that scene is awesome. Best. My favorite scene in TTT. During the credits they play the "Gollum Song", which is sung by Emiliana Torrini--a half-Italian, half-Icelandic singer with a freakish voice. The Elf music is haunting. Beautiful.
One good movie, and Return of the King is even better. If you think Helm's Deep was something, wait till you see Pelennor Fields.....(picture this: 250,000 Orcs, along with Trolls, huge siege towers, and Haradrim with their Mumuakils).
All you people who have written stupid pointless reviews calling this movie "crap" (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE), think what you want, but it's a fact--Lord of the Rings rules.
Peter Jackson, my thanks
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Summary: Great movie, flawed adaptation
Review: I am a Tolkien fan; Lord of the Rings is the best book I have ever read, therefore I hate all the changes Jackson decided to make. Why make changes, when the story is already good? Why make changes that will not improve the story? But even saying so, I think this movie is a great one, and this dvd set the best. How can I think both things at the same time? Let me explain myself. First of all, as I have said I am a Tolkien fan, and that means for me that The Lord of the Rings is primarily a book. The great memories and moments I have had with middle-earth come from the books by professor Tolkien. There are today many LOTR fans, but they are LOTR movies fans, and there is a huge difference. That is the reason why the movies for me are just subsidiary material for the books, and I don't care too much about the changes. I don't take them too seriously. It is the same thing as when you see a Tolkien ilustrator and you don't like the picture, because you do not agree with that vision of middle-earth. The pleasure I find in the movies comes not from the hope that they will be exactly like the book, but that there are at least some images of my most beloved book on film.
Having said so, let's talk about the Two Towers movie and extended edition. I will not point out the goods things which are many (the best of all is Gollum) and you already know, I would prefer to make some comments on the flaws I found. Jackson says that the books must work for people that have not read the book, let's test the movie on this ground. The extended edition is a better version, because it is a complete film. The one we saw in theatres is an editing disaster. Let me give you two examples. Aragorn is lying at a river side and a horse comes out of nowhere to pick him up. In the extended edition we learn this horse was Theodred's, that after his death it was impossible to control and that Aragorn advices to free the animal, so there existed a connection between Aragorn and the horse. Faramir tells Frodo and Sam that Boromir is dead, how does he comes to know this? (I know how because I've read the book, but we must pretend that we are just ordinary non Tolkien readers that are in the theaters just to see a movie) In the extended edition we realize that Faramir has found Boromir's horn broken in two. Was it impossible to put a 15 second phrase in the theatrical version? So the people who have not read the book have no idea how Faramir know this.
Now I want to refer to the changes between book and movie. There are many changes I can understand, and that I accept because of what I have said above. I can understand that they invented a scene of Sam falling in front of the black gates, I even like it. I can understand the flashbacks of Arwen and Aragorn's romance. I don't think you need them in the movie, but it appears that Jackson, Walsh and Boyens were committed with stubborness to make Arwen a greater character than she is in the book. Anyway, I preferred the love story, which in a way is true to the book, than the original idea: we learn in the DVD appendices that Arwen was going to fight along Aragorn in Helm's Deep; it seems that the internet harsh commentaries influenced the change, thank God! I can understand that they eliminated (Erkebrand) and give Eomer a different part to play in the story. I can understand that in the last battle the riders come from the east when they should have come from the west.
Those changes I can understand. But I can not understand why the ents are presented like selfish beings that doesn't understand the implications of Sauron's menace. Treebeard is one of the wisest characters in Middle-Earth. He knows what have to be done right after speaking with Merry and Pippin. The ents defeat Saruman and they send the uhorns to destroy Saruman's army in Helm's deep. There would have not been any victory for Rohan without the Ents help. In the extended edition we see the uhorns and its role in the battle, although the sequence was a very short one: it is almost impossible to see the huorns going fron Fangorn to Helm's Deep, we see Treebeard, Merry and Pippin, then the uhorns and a slight move of leaves, then Treebeard again with Merry and Pippin; I thought that they cut the scene out of the movie because of it's lenght, now I don't know what to think. Was it too much to ask to put one minute of film that includes the uhorns sequences in the theatrical version? Anyway, not even the extended edition makes justice to the role the ents played in the war against Sauron. But the biggest mistake that Jackson's team made was the elimination of Shelob. Their reasoning was flawed from the beginning. Helm's Deep is not the conclusion of the story, it is the central climax. The final climax is what happened in Shelob's lair. But Jackson decided to make Helm's Deep the end of the story and from that decision originated all the abominations of the movie. If Frodo and Sam don't face the Shelob danger, then they have to invent one: Faramir became the opposite of what he really is. Not even the extended version presents Faramir as a disciple of Gandalf, an scholar of ancient lore, one in who the old blood of Númenor is restored, and one who is so wise and noble that can resist the power of the ring and understand inmmediatly Frodo's quest. Once you have a fake Faramir, Frodo has to go to Osgiliath and face the Nazgul, but this creates problems for the third movie: if the nazgul saw that Frodo carries the ring how is it going to be possible that Sauron thinks it is Pippin the one who carries it? If Helm's Deep is going to be the last sequence, they have got to create an action scene to be in the middle of the movie: the wargs attack the rohirrim and Aragorn falls from a cliff. And after all this, there is no time to show the encounter of Gandalf and Saruman, and the finding of the Palantir. They said: that will be in the third movie; the problem is that now they think it doesn't belong there and they just cut those sequences from the Return of the King theatrical version. See Jackson what happens when you mess around with a story that doesn't need that. They try to improve it but instead they make it worse than the book.
However this movie by itself is great, I love it, and the DVD set is the best one you can ever hope.
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Summary: Vital DVD to own...
Review: This multi-DVD set is worth every penny. Although you are paying a bit more than the theatrical release DVD - you gain so much more insite to the Two Towers...As for the movie itself...obviously it is amazing. I highly recommend purchasing the directors platinum series edition over the theatrical release edition - you'll be missing out if you don't.
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Summary: The longer version is better!
Review: The extended version of the movie (by 43 minutes) is *better* than the theatrical release. We see more of Treebeard (from the books) plus a much better back story of the troubled relationship between the Steward of Gondor and his sons. Little scenes with Gollum and Sam also improve this storyline as well. I can't imagine that Peter Jackson wasn't furious that this wasn't the theatrical release -- it really fills out the characters and the film, without feeling too long.
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Summary: The Two Towers
Review: I waited most impatiently and breathlessly for the release of this DVD...and when it finally came, I believe there was a scream loud enough to startle my neighbor as I ran for the TV and settled in for an afternoon of viewing.
We pick up right where we left off...with the three warriors running after their friends and fellowship just as strong as when they first set out from Rivendell, the ties of friendship and loyalty and a dedication to good stronger than ties of blood regardless of the fact that the fellowship is strung out over the face of Middle Earth, seperated by time and evil and a pressing need for strengh.
I'm thankful that Sam and Frodo's trek to Mordor is presented in such a way as to find the sense of humor in even the darkest of situtations and while the situtation does grow increasingly dangerous and dark, Peter Jackson takes a break from the heaviness surrounding them and their mission and turns that attention toward Rohan and Helm's Deep. He leaves Sam and Frodo to make their way through the sunny countryside heading toward the firey mountian of Doom and never too far out of mind is the fact that this quest to rid the world of evil could claim their lives.
The Battle of Helm's Deep still takes my breath, even away after repeated viewings. Though they might very well be going to their deaths, the men of Rohan along with a Elven army on loan from Elrond and our three intrepid warriors of the Fellowship take a stand against the beginning of the evil...and the following scene is one that HAD to be made. Watch it and try not to thank the actors, stunt men, directors and writers for bringing that to the big screen. Just for the presentation of the will of survival in the name of good it's worth the viewing and the money it took to make it come alive. Take a seat and watch it for the deeper meanings and you'll be lost in thought for days.
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Summary: An excellent movie with an incredibly thorough DVD.
Review: Rather than trying to argue with the people who don't like the movie (as everyone else seems to be doing), I figured I would actually review the DVD. First of all, the movie is remarkably well done considering the pure scale of the books. To try and recreate Tolkein's world is an enormous task, and was incredibly well done by Peter Jackson. LOTR is incredibly simple in its plot, but its the way the characters who are not human become human to us and make us relate to them that makes LOTR interesting. Its a human interest story when it really comes down to it. As for the extended edition DVD, I just have to say wow. There's a lot of information to take in. But when you spend 3 years filming a movie and then another 3 editing it, you might as well do it right. I'm a huge fan of documentaries of any kind, from the Civil War to the history of hot dogs, I find it fascinating. If you're not that type of person, the normal dvd will probably suit you just fine, but if you either are an absolubte fanatic about LOTR or just really enjoy behind the scenes of things in general, then its an incredibly well put together dvd. The extra scenes that were added into the movie aren't especially neccesary if you're just a casual fan, since it makes the movie that much longer (about 50 minutes), but if you have the patience to sit through it and really enjoy the films, then the extra scenes are very nice to have. A lot of humorous scenes and character background scenes got cut out of the theatrical version, so it kinda makes the movie a little less gloomy. So to sum up, wonderful film, surprisingly extraordinary cast, and extended scenes and the most comprehensive extra features a dvd release has ever seen make this a wonderful dvd for your collection and very much worth the extra $10 over the theatrical version.
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Summary: Come on its horrible.
Review: Come on LOTR is stupid when u really think bout it. Its about a dumb ring. If u love LOTR maybe u should rent it. Its mainly talking and at times really really really borin. Every1 loves this at my school. In a couple years every1 goin to forget bout LOTR. If u r a LOTR freak u will probably say my reveiw wuz not helpful but i hope some1 agrees wit me. Its even costs more bling bling than most other movies. Its worth probably $16.99.
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