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Summary: Craig Parker
Review: I heard the extended version has more of Craig Parker (Haldir) in it =) can't wait to get this DVD and find his scenes!!!!!
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Summary: Where are the Theatrical Trailers?
Review: Part of the fun of home theater is recreating the movie experience from buttered popcorn to the thunder of hooves produced by your subwoofer.Sometimes the trailer is better than the actual movie itself. Cut out some of the needless cast chitchat and give us back all of the trailers! Now I'm going to have to skip the extended edition with DTS (a major plus) for the crappy dolby digital version which has the trailers. Thanks for nothing!
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Summary: Very Exciting!
Review: This movie is so cool! I love the part when Gandalf battles the Balrog. That part was awsome! The Warg Battle, Battle for Helms Deep, and the part where the Ents storm Isengard were all fascinating action sequences. The drama, action, suspense, adventure, and comic relief 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' offers are wonderful! With stunning special effects, a great music (score), spectacular cinamatography, and superb acting 'The Two Towers' is easily one of the best movies of 2002. I highly recommend that you buy this movie on DVD!
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Summary: No Trailers!
Review: The extra features are a delight for fans. You can enter Middle-Earth for hours on end. I love the making of this film far more than the actual movie, which is a disappointment to Tolkien fans. But since I'm focusing on the DVD we won't get into the actual movie. The features are fantastic, especially the making of Gollum. Some of the methods for his creation are hilarious. But the biggest disappointment of this DVD is that there are no trailers! Not a single one for The Two Towers or even a little peak at Return of the King. Therefore, the first release of this DVD is better since you get the trailers, and a peak at Return of the King. On top of that, the additional footage does little to improve this film.
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Summary: Extended version has a number of great character moments
Review: The extended version of The Two Towers doesn't feel quite as essential as The Fellowship of The Ring. Like the first set, The Two Towers shows us a couple of complete sequences previously unseen or referred to in passing. Like the first set, the film is broken up over two discs. The picture isn't flawless but its pretty darn close. There's few digital compression artifacts and the sound is spectacular. The extras are spread over all four discs (with the most important extras on discs 1 & 2 being the commentary tracks from the director and cast). What's really fascinating is getting a look at the production techniques to make The Two Towers capture Jackson's vision of Tolkien's world. Also, allowing the director and his co-writers a voice on why the alterations to the plot were necessarily gives these changes added credibility. It's difficult when you're a hardcore fan of any work of literature to give it up to another person's vision. Although some fans were disappointed with the changes in the story, I felt that they enhanced the story and expanded the scope of Tolkien's original vision in a cinematic way. The packaging is a bit more problematic. While I liked the packaging design(it's in a similar package to the first edition), the set I received had some tears on it. The edition of The Fellowship I received had similar problems with it tearing fairly easy but that's a very minor point overall. The design is the thing here and it's designed quite well. Overall, The Two Towers extended edition is still superior when compared to the theatrical cut although the difference between it and the extended edition isn't quite as large as what existed between the two versions of Fellowship. As a middle chapter, Towers has a number of disadvantages but the main one is that we come in on the middle of the story and there isn't a strong sense of closure to the film. Nevertheless, it's still a compelling and powerful film that proves that Jackson's work on The Frighteners and other works wasn't a fluke.
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Summary: the best of the best
Review: Listen people. For those who rate this movie 1 star have no brains. This film is the best, not to mention that the return of the king will be better. The acting is so good. This is 10 times better than Matrix reloaded and any other films. Peter Jackson did a very good job making it. SO GET THE MOVIE.
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Summary: very boring
Review: It's very boring. The graphics are very poor. Also too much violents, not very good for children. I don't have much to write about it.
Anyway, if you are a true Load of the ring fan don't see it. It's bad.
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Summary: Read the fine print on the rebate carefully...
Review: Why would I buy the theatrical version when this extended version exists? Stupid rebate policy on this one, Amazon.
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: This movie is stunning because of the awsome action sequences, great adventure, wonderful music (score), and great special effects it offers. "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is a movie I highly recommend you buy on DVD! Or, better yet, wait until the Extended Cut Four Disc DVD Set is released in stores and buy it. It will be even better than the origional version!
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Summary: Fantastic film
Review: This is the absolute best possible adaptation I would ever expect of the LOTR trilogy. In fact, it far exceeds in quality any other book to film translation I have ever seen. For those whining about Faramir, if he had been portrayed exactly as in the book his character would have seemed boring, and without the extra insight allowed from reading numerous pages of explanation, the audience would be left wondering why Aragorn is any more noble than Faramir. Peter Jackson here introduces Faramir as the brother of Boromir, and at first he makes the same judgement as his brother. Later, after Faramir sees the power of the ring when Frodo willingly offers it up to the Nazgul, Faramir realizes that it can 't help him win the war, and he lets Frodo continue on his quest. Thus Faramir is just and wise second only to Aragorn, and the audience understands this, even the ones who haven't read the book. You shouldn't have to read the book to understand the film (just look at how Dune turned out if you don't believe me on that point), and Peter Jackson has done an excellent job of characterizing Faramir as the more noble of the two brothers while clearly distinguishing between him and Aragorn. I couldn't ask for a better means of doing so. Middle Earth is exactly as I imagined it, and the characters are all thoughtfully portrayed. This was a wonderful movie in the theaters, and, as I read on another review site, this extended edition is not only 40 minutes longer, but 40 minutes BETTER.
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