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| Time Mage 1120th Post
 
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|  "The Lord of the Rings: The two Towers"
, posted Sun 22 Dec 15:51
I saw it this tuesday and... WOW!! I ended wanting 3 hours more! It's fantastic!
Although many, many things were changed or ommited from the book, it's one of those rare times when they change things, but end being very good!! I liked it a lot, even when I thought I was going to see other things.
My favourite scenes:
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- When Legolas climbs to the horse that Gimli is "riding"... Wow! Now that I think of it, Legolas is great in all the film. That's cool, he's my favourite.
- When Gandalf fights the Balrog... That's exactly as I imagined it.
- The whole Helm's Fortress (I think that's not it's name in english...) fight. When at first, all the orcs are stomping into the ground, Aragorn and Gimli's fight at the gates, the final horse charge, etc...
- The assault of Faramir's troops. The olifants are as I imagined them, the Easterlings (well, all kind of human troops of Sauron) have very good and imaginative outfits, and, even when it's short, the battle is good.
- Gollum/Smeagol is... Perfect!! I don't need to add anything more.
- The Ents!! Great, super, excellently well done!
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What I didn't liked:
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- Faramir. Being him my favourite LOTR human, he's pretty screwed in the film. They have made him nearly as codicious (or weak, that's a better description) as his brother Boromir, when in the book he is more humble and... hmmm... intelligent. I mean, in the book, it's HE who realized, without Frodo's telling him anything, that his brother wanted the ring... That, and he frees Frodo and Sam, he doesn't bring them to Osgiliath!! (<-- This is an horrible, horrible change). Faramir is better than he looks in the film.
- Gimli's role: He's the joke character, it seems. He's indeed somewhat funny in the book, with the kills poll with Legolas, and all, and there are some great additions, like the woman Dwarves story (true, told in the appendix), but other things, as making him always fall, fail, and do stupid things like mounting a horse to attack... Excessive. He's too good to be downgraded to a joker.
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So, despite the rants (I rant about what I like more than what I don't), I LOVE the film. i'll go to see it again next week, probably.
What's your opinions? Good? Bad? Let's the discussion begin!
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| Luisinan
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| "Re(6):The Lord of the Rings: The two Towers" , posted Sun 22 Dec 23:31
Let me just say that I've read the trilogy several times (super big fan) but I was actually bored half way through the film.
I think my problem was that I knew how everything would turn out. But anyway, towardds the end I really liked the film again. I don't know why- but I did. I really enjoyed it and can't wait till I get my hands on the DVD. Any, here's my thoughts...
Positives
-Gollum. By far, this was INCREDIBLE. The CGI was very good but not realistic-perfect. Nonetheless, it was great and the characterization was INCREDIBLE. Like someone else said, Gollum stole the show. And he did.
-Theoden's transformation was all right.
-Treebeard and the ents- awesome! Even though it feels a bit silly having Pippen and Merry talking to a tree.
-Everything else was cool, but yeah, I think I kind of prefer the Fellowship over this. Maybe it was cause more stuff was happening here.
Negatives
-Faramir. He got radically changed and that was uncool.
-Too much cowardliness. Everyone except Aragorn and Gimli come off as cowards. Legolas SHOULD NOT have lost it temporarily.
-Gimli the joker. Booo! Pippen and Merry should be the only jokers.
-Aragorn and the cliff. WTF? That was dumb.
-Elvish bowmen. I don't think they were in the book.
I actually get depressed towards the end because of two reasons. The good guys kept getting killed. And the deforestation saddened me. It was like, Treebeard and his crew could kick all the butt they wanted to kick, but it wouldn't change the fact that they would lose the long war. Sad sad sad but that's just the way of life.
Anyway, I think it was a great film although a bit more "hollywoodish" then the first one. I think the plot was made a little too predictable because of the changes (the cowardliness and some of the more suspenseful parts.) But anyway- if you liked the first one, you will regret not seeing this in the theater. I cannot wait for the DVD and for the next film! One more year arg!!!
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| Tashoku Kisune 1583th Post
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| "Re(1):The Lord of the Rings: The two Towers" , posted Mon 23 Dec 15:29
quote:
I saw it this tuesday and... WOW!! I ended wanting 3 hours more! It's fantastic!
Although many, many things were changed or ommited from the book, it's one of those rare times when they change things, but end being very good!! I liked it a lot, even when I thought I was going to see other things.
My favourite scenes:
What I didn't liked:
So, despite the rants (I rant about what I like more than what I don't), I LOVE the film. i'll go to see it again next week, probably.
What's your opinions? Good? Bad? Let's the discussion begin!
I absolutely loved the movie to death. I'd watch it a thousand times on end, I think, and never grow bored of it.
Gollum is one of my favorite characters and so I loved the movie. I like lots of Gollum.
However.... ... I think I'm theo nly one who liked Grima. :( Sort of sad.... but I tend to favor the twisted ones. LOL
I love Gollum and Grima... wooo.. lol
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| Puar 533th Post
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| "Re(2):The Lord of the Rings: The two Towers" , posted Tue 24 Dec 00:39
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-the movie looks alot like WC3 ^_^,Orcs humans and undead ,puls the walking trees :P!
Before my roommate went to go see the movie, we were playing WarCraft III and I told him that, when he went to go see the movie,
"...there's a cool part, but it's near the end of the movie."
"Oh, yeah? What is it?"
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"When a bunch of Tree Ents kick the crap out of Isenguard."
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As I say that, Six Night Elf Forces of Nature and Seven Uprooted Ancient Protectors begin to dismantle his base ten minutes into the game! ;D
And it's not Helm's Fortress in English, it's actually Helm's Deep.
"You should get to know me better no one's every what they seem..."
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, shouldn't they have tried to be a weee bit more original?
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