LoTR: The Two Towers

[CyberGnu]

AWESOME!!!!!!!

Great scene after great scene! Amazingly well done, Gollum superb, really nice battlescenes. I'll see it again in a few weeks, I think.

A few random thoughts during the movie:

***SPOILER (even for people who has read the book)***


I appreciated the implicit misogynicity in the helmsdeep sequence. Boys to young to physically lift a sword are sent out on the battlements, while women in the prime of their life are sent to wait in the caves

BTW, what a pissant little kingdom Rohan is... The entire population is evacuated, and it amounts to about 1000 people?

How come a scene in which an elf rides a shield down a flight of stairs shooting orcs with his longbow actually feels more believable than the equivalent scene in James Bond: Die another day?

[Arrian]

Only 1.5hrs until I see it. Sweet B-day present.

For once, Cybergnu, I suspect you and I will agree on something (I certainly hope so in this case).

-Arrian

[Kc7mxo]

Well slap me silly and call me charlie, i looked all up and down the off topic forum and didn't see this thread!

I figured maybe everyone was still asleep from watching last night.

[Arrian]

It was buried on page three, I think. I only knew about it because I saw it yesterday.

About the slapping & calling you pet names... not my bag, baby.

-Arrian

[Zero]

Will someone who fell asleep during the fellowship of the ring like this one?

[Kc7mxo]

I think if you fell asleep in the first one, you'll like this one more. There's more. . . .suspense I suppose you might say, and the pacing is a little faster.

[rah]

Originally posted by Arrian
It was buried on page three, I think. I only knew about it because I saw it yesterday.

About the slapping & calling you pet names... not my bag, baby.

-Arrian

Yes, I checked back before closing the other one.
And I couldn't find it because someone bumped it to page one while I was switching to page 2 to look for it.
By the time I got back to page one, it was there and I figured it was just another "senior moment".

I could see someone falling asleep in the first hour of fellowship, but not after that.

I'm looking forward to a 30 minute battle scene

[Zero]

No offense, but Im just not a LotR fan... I didn't like it at all and had to kinda force myself to watch it all. It's just a personal opinion... after all didn't LotR get nominated for bunch of grammies? anyway I was just wondering if Two towers may be worth considering since they do make the trailers look a lot better than the fellowship of the ring. And I'm also wondering if people just are saying its great as they make it sound because people want to believe it is (which is exactly how I felt for the first one).

[korn469]

Calc II

it is a better movie than the first LotR movie, however if you didn't like that one at all, i kinda doubt you'll like this one seeing as how it is very similar just slightly more refined than the other one

[Traianvs]

Nah, just watched it... it's cool, only thing though is that the two towers is a bit different from the book on several points, for example, the way the big battle was won, (Eomer...) and other strange stuff...

and of course, that there are romance scenes (sadly )

But it's a nice movie to watch after all...

[korn469]

since i haven't read the book yet i didn't have anything to be disappointed in by having scenes left out or changed

[Zero]

Originally posted by korn469
Calc II

it is a better movie than the first LotR movie, however if you didn't like that one at all, i kinda doubt you'll like this one seeing as how it is very similar just slightly more refined than the other one

thank you for ur unbiased answers.. it is often the case that fans distort things abit. Alot of people assure me I will enjoy it. As if they get a cookie from J.R.R Tolkien if they successfully convert me .

I'm still gonna watch it, I probably will download it first, since I am really on tight budget right now and spending 9 bucks on a movie isn't an option... (especially if I dont feel the need to pay for it because I am not fanatic over it)

[Kc7mxo]

I'm still gonna watch it, I probably will download it first, since I am really on tight budget right now and spending 9 bucks on a movie isn't an option... (especially if I dont feel the need to pay for it because I am not fanatic over it)

Download it? You evil person!

[kc7mxo stops suddenly as he feels the weight of his own collection of 97 divx movies pressing in upon him]

uh, never mind.

Though actually, i think you'll miss a lot of the power by downloading it, all that'll be out now are the crummy theater rip versions. Sure, it'lll be cool once the leaked dvds get out (should be another two or three weeks) but ewww, i just hate theater rips.

[korn469]

Calc II

don't they have some kind of early bird special? here the movie is 6.50-7.00 bucks for a night time showing and 3.75-4.50 for the early show

if you are going to watch it i'd say do it in the theater, it's a big story and the screen and 65 thx speakers give it the backdrop it needs

by the way what did you dislike about the first film?

[Immortal Wombat]

Saw it twice ( - don't ask...) today (*checks time*), yesterday...
I preferred the first one. The book and the film both manage to bore me with Frodo/Sam/Gollum powerplay and whinging about the ring. Which I guess proves the film lives up to the book; but it doesn't entertain. And the way the three strorylines were interlinked came close to being annoying at some points. I wanted to follow the battle, and kept being whisked off to see some big-ass treeherd (not their best CG rendition IMO) going "Hummm, Hooom".

I was surprised that Rohan was portrayed as quite so desolate, it's meant to be farmable at least...

Oh, and having read the book last night/this morning, I can confirm the plot changes. Not as major perhaps as missing Tom B out, or introducing a random Arwen scene as in FOTR, but certainly enough to be annoying, as they seemed to do little to advance the story any more than Tolkien's version would have done.

But it wasn't bad. Gandalf's 'death' and return were done well, Helm's Deep was great, though the battle did not follow Tolkien's script, and some elves came in to help for some reason. The Nazgul are awesome. The last march of the ents was done well, and the journey across the dead marshes. Gollum looks good, despite his over-schitzophrenic personality.