The Two Towers

by Xander 59 Replies latest social entertainment

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  safe4kids

  Tracy! Back off, bitch! Legolas is mine..MINE I TELL YOU!!!!!!

  GREAT movie, thought it was even better than the first one and I agree, Xander, Gollum worked very well.

  Dana
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  safe4kids

  Ummm...just for those of you who may not know...Tracy (think41self) is my sister so I am allowed to call her names

  Dana
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  ISP

  I saw the flic......it was very cool. I don't see how that dwarf could be so hard! Anyway looking forward to part 3!

  ISP
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  expatbrit

  Brilliant movie. It's really amazing how well they've done with the casting and the vision of it all. I'm often shaking my head in wonder at how close to the pictures I had in my head when reading the book the movies get.

  And Gollum....precioussssssss!!

  Expatbrit
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  Robdar

  Breeze said: The whole Lord of Rings epic....seems slow and not completely explained as it goes along....

  I agree. For me, I enjoyed the book better, but this movie was better than the last. The special fx are awesome. My biggest complaint is that 3 hours is too long to sit without intermission to go to the bathroom and stretch your legs.
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  LB

  I've never been so bored sitting through a movie in my life. I wished I had quit on it half way through. Guess it isn't for everyone.
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  teejay

  I hafta agree with LB.

  For me, the first installment was better. I didn't read the book, but it seems to me that for the sake of making a profitable movie, The Towers veered too far from Tolkien's simple theme of the seductive nature of power.

  Yeah the special fx were great, especially the Gollum. In fact, I think that from a literary perspective, the conflict that is always present in the Gollum most represents what Tolkien was trying to get across with his story. I also liked Treebeard, although it took forever to realize his contribution to the plot's development.

  Anyway, Part II was too long and didn't have much to do with The Ring. I saw it as nothing more than a simplistic battle of good versus evil. A movie about the seductive appeal of total power would have been shorter, less reliant on special effects, and wouldn't have made near what The Towers is going to rake in.

  I give it a 7 (out of ten). I hope George Lucas sees the movie a couple of times, though. He could learn a thing or two.
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  DIM

  The Towers veered too far from Tolkien's simple theme of the seductive nature of power.

  I don't think so - this movie was about as true to the book as the first installment was. It did not end in the same spot as the book, but overall I thought it did a good job of presenting an literary masterpiece to the movie watching audience. The only scene I STRONGLY disliked was when Legolas uses his shield as a skateboard to go down the stairs and fight some orcs.
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  Stephanus

  I was tricked into seeing this movie by a friend of mine who, like me, has read the LOTR through many times. He briefed me beforehand that it would filled with "a pack of lies". Up until the middle of the movie it seemed to follow the book faithfully, only punctuated with the odd white lie, such as Treebeard rescuing the hobbits. But from the point at which they left Edoras to go to Helm's Deep, the screenwriters seem to have decided to throw the book over their shoulders and prove that they can do better than the writer of one of the most loved fantasy epics of all time!

  Examples:

  The entire battle sequence between Edoras and Helm's Deep (warg-riders, Aragorn goes missing, etc) was a complete pack of lies!

  The entmoot deciding not to get involved was a pack of lies.

  The argument between Gandalf and Theoden about the best strategy for defense of the realm was a pack of lies.

  The bit about Elrond trying to persuade Arwen to leave Middle Earth "now - we're all going" was a complete pack of lies

  Arwen's indecision was also a pack of lies

  Faramir claiming the Ring and taking Sam and Frodo to Osgiliath was a pack of lies

  Haldir turning up at Helm's Deep with greetings from Elrond was a pack of damnable lies!

  Elves at Helm's Deep was a pack of lies

  Grima watching the ents destroy Isengard was a pack of lies - he didn't turn up until after the ents had finished

  Eomer relieving Helms Deep was a pack of lies - in the book he was in Helm's Deep with the rest of them; it was the ents who destroyed the orc armies of Saruman

  The latter half of the movie was a pack of lies punctuated with the odd bit of truth eg. the storming of Isengard by the ents was basically how I visualised it from the book, although there was a "Bugs Bunny moment" where an ent on fire doused himself in the flood from the the Isen as the flood waters from the broken dam came coursing into Isengard.

  I won't be watching this one again. The only reason we'll be going to see the next one is to see just how badly they manage to muck up the final installment. We've had a few ideas about what they can do to wreck it - such as Saruman meeting his end in a glorious wizard-battle with Gandalf, rather than pathetically in the Shire; Sauron himself taking the Ring off Frodo at Mt Doom and falling in himself(!!!!) - far-fetched, but with the pig's breakfast they've made of the Two Towers, who knows what liberties they will take????

  All-in-all, I give the movie one finger up:
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  safe4kids

  Steph,

  I find it very frustrating when you are so vague. How about telling us what you really thought of the movie, hey? Damn Ozzies!

  Dana