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Well, I seem to be in the minority, here... preferring the first instalment of the series over The Two Towers. I really enjoyed this movie, but it felt like it didn't quite have the "heart" or the novelty of The Fellowship of the Ring. I think the main thing is that I preferred the members of "the fellowship" when they were all together, travelling alongside each other. Throughout almost the entirety of The Two Towers, they are broken up into three separate storylines, and I missed the interactions that they all had together in last year's movie. I also wish Gandalf had been in this more. Repeated viewings of the first movie made me realize how great Ian McKellan really is in that role, and it's a bit of a shame that he doesn't have quite as much to do in The Two Towers.
Another problem I had with it is pretty much a self-inflicted one... I think I may well have over-hyped this to myself, and subsequently felt a little disappointed.
Nevertheless, it still is a pretty darn good movie. More beautiful photography and cool camera-work, and consistently excellent special effects (I found myself actually looking for faults in the effects, but I couldn't find any). I enjoyed the extra emphasis placed on the characters of Legolas the elf and Gimli the dwarf, though it did seem that the storyline of Frodo, Sam, and the ring was relegated to a secondary status compared to the other characters. The tree-people ("Ents," I believe they're called) were really cool, and Gollum/Smeagol was a truly interesting and non-annoying CG character.
Finally, I thought the two major battle-scenes at the end of the movie were really amazing. Though another slight problem I had with the film was that it seemed to pretty much just build up to these two final sequences, without a whole lot of other exciting things happening throughout the beginning and middle section.
Of course, as difficult as it may be to do, I suppose it's important to remember that this shouldn't necessarily be considered a complete film unto itself. Rather, it's the middle three-hours of a nine-hour movie. As Holly appropriately pointed out, it's likely that the middle part of such an extensive story might not have the same freshness and excitement that the beginning part might have, nor the same sense of danger and climactic conflict that the final part might have.
Anyway, I don't want to come off sounding like I didn't like it. It was a good movie, it's just that it didn't quite live up to my (somewhat-inflated) expectations. I have a feeling that, much like The Fellowship of the Ring, I'll probably like The Two Towers even more after a second or third viewing.
(I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the extended DVD version next November, not to mention the release of The Return of the King in December!)
well, i've gotta say i'm glad your expectations knocked you down a peg heh (now we're even for unbreakable ;) )
as for the movie, i found that there was as much *cool* stuff in it (beautiful scenery, etc), but it lacked some of the things i hated about the first one (cheesie power ranger-esque shots, distracting human/hobbit interactions)
my biggest complaints are just in the way the humans fought the orcs...in a battle that will result in the possible end of the world, there's no way they would have handled it the way they did...chivalry? maybe between the french and english, but not with people vs monsters of *pure evil* :P
and as cool as everyone else seems to think that legolas swinging up the horse shot was, i honestly thought it was corny...geoff thinks it's possible, i'd like to see someone do it without the aid of wires...but that's just me
i also thought it was a good movie though, it didn't seem to drag on like the first one did (in the theatre), but sequels always have the advantage of not having to introduce *everyone* so they can just b uild on relationships and whatnot
Geoff....Your a Dork...hehe
I know you are, but what am I?
A Dork
I know you are, but what am I?
... and who *are* you, anyway? :-)
HAHA, love the name!!
by the email address, you might be inclined to think it was ryebread, but it's actually my cousin caitlin
hehe..yea Geoff is a dork haha...someone agrees with me :)
Well, to settle the debate about Legolas and the swinging saddle mount trick, I have seen it done, though at slower speeds, and by an expert rider. There was a bit of preperation beforehand, but it was still amazing to see. It has to do with the momentum of the horse and leverage.
The movie was excellent, and I can't see it as a movie unto itself, but must think of it as a nine hour long movie, and I figure that with the last installment complete, it will be the best movie I have ever seen. It tells so much about our society that a movie such as this is so popular. With its appeal of an obvious evil, when our world is coloured with such gray, this movie and the books that it is based on will always be popular.
Yeah, it most definitely is supposed to be a "9-hour movie". I was thinking about that, and I wondered if it would ever be possible for another film-maker to create such an expansive film. Like, I wonder if we'll ever see a 9-hour movie based on original material (not adapted from a book). I guess we're *kind've* getting something like that with the next two Matrix sequals (which I've heard are sort've supposed to be considered two parts to the same movie). But still, the only reason I can think of that a studio would green-light something like that is because of the huge success of the first Matrix movie.
all i have to say is that legolas swinging onto the horse was HOT.
but that whole skateboarding imitation thing was lame. ps, i KNOW i am sounding horribly shallow here, but that's honestly all i thought about those parts, and if i went into what i thought about the rest of the movie, i wouldn't get to sleep tonight. it has to do with bitching about the parts of the actualy book that were left out. oh, gollum's schizophrenic converstaion with himself made me piss myself, just thought i'd add that.
wow, i sound like an idiot.
im not.
why wont you believe me....
This one is to Tim:
The very end of the books (a part which is going to be cut out from the third movie) actually removes the black and white from the story. It's very interesting, and binds everything more closely to modern civilization.
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