LoTR: The Two Towers

[Gatekeeper]

The movie theater was packed when I viewed TTT tonight. Overall, I thought the movie was pretty good (mind you, this is from a person who's only had limited prior exposure to Tolkien's works), but I didn't think the Battle at Helm's Deep was greatly impressive, in terms of FX. No better than the opening scenes in Gladiator, IMHO. I still get shivers from Gladiator's opening scenes ... imagine having to face that sort of onslaught in ancient times.

The Ents seemed to have a fairly easy time of taking out Saruman's fortress, Isengard.

Gatekeeper

[Combat Ingrid]

One of the coolest details in the movie is when the troops are gathering at Isengard.
When Grima sees this massive army, a tear falls down his cheek

About the ents, I guess Saruman didn't expect anyone to attack Isengard. After all, the only possible threats (in his mind), Gondor and Rohan, would be quite busy fighting his armies.

[FrustratedPoet]

Yeah, it's supposed to be easy for the Ents to destroy Isengard because Saruman didn't consider them a threat and moved his whole army out to fight the Rohirrim.

The Ents having a huge fight with the uruk-hai would have been cooler, though.

[aahz_capone]

I just saw the movie, and these were my reactions:








and then later...

[Robert]

I need to see it again

[Bereta_Eder]

There was a trailer of Matrix Reload too.

[aahz_capone]

I AM gonna see it again!

Damnit, I was so dumbstruck by some of the scenes that scenes right after didn't get as much attention as I wanted to give it. I'm gonna see it on the 2nd day of xmas.

Matrix Reload... cool... hmmm... can't concentrate on Matrix... must kill Balrog....

When they said in Fellowship thatr the dwarves dug too deep and awoke something I thought, yeah ok, fine. But in Towers you see Gandalf fall for about 2 minutes, at 9.8 m/s he fell at least a few kilometers down, now thats deep!

[Jon Miller]

great movie

saw it last night

Jon Miller

[November Adam]

how did the Balrog and Gandalf fight from a lake in the depths of the earth and end up on a mountain peak?

great movie though, can't say if its better than Fellowship though, cause it actually doesn't feel like another movie, more like the continuation of a play after an intermission. Unlike other movie trilogies where time passes by unseen between movies.

[Jon Miller]

you would need to read the book

basically there is a great stair that goes from the deeps to the peak

they fight all along it

Jon Miller

[November Adam]

Must have missed that in the book.

[FrustratedPoet]

Jon's right. It's called the Endless Stair, despite the fact that it does, in fact, end .... it's just stupidly long.

[Jon Miller]

I did not realise how much of a tolkien nerd I was until last night

Jon Miller

[Gatekeeper]

The crowd was tittering big time when Gollum/Smeagol was talking to "himself."

[Saint Marcus]

the only thing that sucked about the movie is that it didn't explain enough. the movie seemed to rush through certain parts. I read the books so it wasn't a problem for me, but others who haven't read the books had tonnes of questions.