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Summary: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Review: I have never read author J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" book trilogy. Well, I tried to once; but I just didn't like to read it! It never did work for me. But I have read "The Hobbit". "The Hobbit" is a great book that I like to read once every year. What do I think of director Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy, you ask? This is my answer: STUNNING! SPECTACULAR! PHENOMENAL! AND BREATH-TAKING! "The Fellowship of the Ring" is a wonderful opening for the trilogy and "The Two Towers" is a spectacular sequel to it. I own "Fellowship of the Ring" Special Extended DVD Edition and it is great! I will soon own "Two Towers" Extended Edition as well; I cannot wait to see how good it is! I love the Extended Cut DVDs of "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy! They are so much better than the origional versions. Now all I will say is that "The Two Towers" is a very good movie in the trilogy and deserves five stars for a rating.
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money On The Origional Version!!!
Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended DVD Edition will be a whole lot better than the theatrical version. Why waste your money on the origional version of The Two Towers wnen there is the Special Extended DVD Edition of it that is coming out on store shelves soon? I can't wait to own it on the 18nth!
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Summary: Love the movie, eh to the books.
Review: Seems like heresy to actually love watching the movies but be semi-bored by the books, but that is my take. For all of you out there that are critical of the movies because they take license with the books content, then too bad. The books are very detailed and will never translate perfectly to the big screen, so let it go. These movies are the next best thing.
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Summary: Great adaptation, except for one flaw
Review: At the outset, Peter Jackson and company has done an incredible job of bringing Tolkien's vision to the screen. I first read The Lord of the Rings almost 30 years ago, and I felt the books were unfilmable with the then current technology. Even with today's state-of-the-art CGI, I still felt that the LOTR could not be filmed properly, unless the people making the film had a great understanding and love for the source material. It is obvious from watching the films that Peter Jackson, et al, has a great awareness and compassion for Tolkien's work. I realize the immense differences between the two mediums of the written page and films and the challenges adapting one from the other. So I accepted the changes in the movies weighed against the books without much grievance, i.e.: Tom Bombadil's absence; Faramir's personality change; Frodo & Sam in Osgiliath; the presence of the elves at Helm's Deep; Arwen's expanded presence; even the silliness of Gimli's character, etc. But there is one element of the movies that disturbs me. It's the films treatment of the "ring" itself. This is where I get to be a LOTR geek, so bear with me! In the books, Sauron never had a psychic connection with the ring as it's portrayed in the films, so he's never certain who the ringbearer is. Frodo never sees the "eye" when he puts on the ring, and vice versa. This is a major plot device in the books, especially in The Return of the King, where Aragorn is in possession of Saruman's palantiri, and uses it deliberately to allow Sauron to track Aragorn's whereabouts and thereby deceiving Sauron into thinking he had the ring. In so doing, Sauron's attention was averted from Mordor where Frodo and Sam were able to enter virtually undetected. Thus far in the films, Sauron knows exactly who and where the ringbearer is, and that makes it impossible for the ringbearer to enter Mordor unnoticed. I see this as the one major flaw in Peter Jackson's visualization of LOTR and I hope this problem is resolved in The Return of the King.
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Summary: I was there and that's not how it happened!
Review: "It wasn't just like the book. Peter Jackson wasn't close enough to the mark. Where's Tom Bombadil? THE BOOKS WERE BETTER!" BLA! BLA! BLA! BLA! BLA! I've had enough of the "fan boys" complaining about the fact that the films are not "like the books". That's because these are what people living in the present like to call "films, or movies". Give peter Jackson credit where it's due. Nobody makes truly epic films like this anymore. The man's discovered a lost art. As much as I like George Lucas, he can create a universe from nothing and transfer it to film. Peter Jackson used the real world and made sure that a great deal of time, effort, and care went into presenting this ADAPTATION. If it were just like the books, people would have fallen asleep or walked out after the first 100 page narrative. GROW UP! ENJOY LIFE! WATCH MORE TV! DRINK SOME ALE AND SMOKE A HOBBIT PIPE WHILE YOU'RE AT IT! Sincerely, Bilbo Baggins
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Summary: Does anyone have this Special Extended Edition? - No!
Review: I wonder how many reviews were written about this Special Edition. It will be released on 18th of november?! If you want to rate the movie you can do it somewhere else.
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Summary: Excellent movie, but the DVD skipped!
Review: I loved this movie, and when I ordered my DVD and it arrived , I was very excited to watch it. However, right after the climax (Helm's Deep, Ent attack), as Gandalf & company are looking towards Moror, the DVD skipped back to the beginning. Too bad I can't watch the ending. The only reaon I gave this 5 stars because the rest of the movie was so awesome. This is similar to another person who saig BOTH copies of the Two Towers they saw had the exact same problem!I just pray when I watch the Extended Edition, I will be able to watch the whole movie.
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Summary: The Extended Version
Review: Is the film that the theatrical release SHOULD have been. This film ties up the loose ends and answers many of the questions that were created in the theatrical release, was much more enjoyable to watch, and has at least one Easter egg that I've stumbled upon so far. I'd write more about this, but I've got to go watch the Gollum disc now. :) (I HIGHLY recommend this over the theatrical release, btw.)
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Summary: Lord of the rings is thrilling
Review: The story follows the books so well. The cast is amazing. As frodo and sam move closer to mordor frodo is starting to understand what is happening to him. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas are never going to give up hope that frodo is alive. for example in the return of the king trailer aragorn says everyday frodo moves closer to mordor then gandalf says how do we know frodo is alive then aragorn says what does your heart tell you. the two towers is put together with the bonds of friendship and also fellowship. they will not give up on defeating all evil. The battle of helms deep is amazing to watch. All the special effects that made that sequence real are amazing. The enty marchis also amazing to see. another thing that gives this movie its wonder are the locations. Edoras is one of the most beautiful sets. Also Rivendell is amazing. the ongoing love story wioth aragorn and arwen is tested when arwen has top make the hardest discition ever. She must choose between leaving for the undieing lands with her keen or to give up her imortality to be with the man she loves. Also if aragorn does not take his place as king. middle earth might be ruled by the dark lord.
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Summary: Good film, but the first was better (possible spoilers)
Review: *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers (2002) You all know the cast! **** I might as well get it out of the way - I am a purist so this review will be pretty critical. I'll start with the negatives however, so that I can finish the review with the praise this film deserves. I will also skip most of the plot detail, because I am fairly sure that most of you know the storyline.
At first viewing, the pacing of TTT might seem a little jerky, as we shift between the various plotlines. One of the problems noted almost instantly is a lack of scale, mainly in Frodo and Sam's story. The Dead Marshes appear too small so that Mordor, instead of being a distant blur on the horizon is constantly close and threatening, the red light of Mount Doom always showing. You lose the epic scale from the book. This shows again when after Helm's Deep, Gandalf and others ride to the top of the ridge. Mordor is strangely close again.
Minor changes like sending the women and children to Helm's Deep will have repurcussions in ROTK which I will not detail because they are spoilers.
Cutting off the end of the book is not a particularly good idea because ROTK is going to be packed with action anyway. Faramir's personality change was one of the things that got me most. Instead of appering as a complete contrast to Boromir, as a true Numenorian who would not pick up the Ring if it were lying by the wayside, he appears even darker than Boromir.
Osgiliath, seemingly served no more purpose than to inform us that Peter Jackson can do amazing things with computers. Well - we already knew that! Osgiliath looked perfect. But taking Frodo and Sam there not only removed the sense of urgency, it diminished the scale even further. Then there was the fact that Frodo and Sam are supposed to know absolutely nothing about the outside world.
Another point that was mentioned - in Osgiliath, Faramir screams, 'Nazgul!'. No one knew who the creatures on wings were until right at the end. The Black Breath etc is referenced, but the characters do not know that the Nazgul are what is spreading terror. The Fell Beasts were not threatening enough I felt.
The Wargs were absolutely pointless and showed the one weakness in the Special Effects. And Aragorn's near death? Death has been faked so many times in this trilogy that it is ridiculous and unbelievable when it occurs and is actually in the book. A few odd things - the Ents' faces were very good, but the rest of them was not substantial enough and Gandalf's reintroduction (to Merry and Pippin), I disliked intensely. Also, Rohan was not the flat green grasslands that it should have been.
The only cast member I disliked? Elrond who seems far too severe! As he is half man, he would not be so harsh on men. Finally - the Great Eye of Sauron. It just didn't fit. Dare I say it, it reminded me of the power coupling in Episode 2, just a different colour!
Enough of bad points, although there were more, I'll move on to the (many) positives!
The cast - well what can I say? New and established members alike, I was wowed.
Sets - especially Edoras. Exactly as I had pictured them in my own imagination. Fangorn was absolutely perfect, as was Helm's Deep. The Black Gate has got to be one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.
Special Effects - especially Gollum. I have never seen such a brilliant CG character. His split personality was perfect too. I felt sorry for him, I hated him, I loved him!
The battle sequences were brilliant. Helm's Deep did not seem too long and who can forget the trail of the Orc armies stretched across the plain?
The destruction of Isengard, the breaking of its dam, I was awed. The tiniest detail was observed. Just look at the detail on the Elven brooches, on armour, the pillars of Meduseld.
And a small thing that I would like to say is thank you to Peter Jackson and his team for their research on pronuciation. If I had had to sit through FOTR with everyone saying Sawron, I would not have gone to see TTT.
And I really liked the foreshadowing of Aragorn's death. It was incredibly moving, although it did not state that Arwen loses her immortality and dies shortly afterwards, which would have been another moving touch.
Enough from me rambling on! I am not going to review FOTR as well, because I have so much to say. From this review, you might deduce that I dislike TTT because I fear my complaints exceed my praises. I just tend to notice my dislikes more and voice them! It cannot be said I disliked this film - I've seen it many times. I did however, prefer FOTR. That is on of the reasons why I have given this film 4 stars and not the 5 I would give to Fellowship.
Finally, I wrote this review before I got a chance to watch the extras on the DVD, so I won't be commenting on them. I eagerly anticipate the Extended Edition, hopefully that will restore some of the things which I felt were lacking.
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