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So after a long wait to get good seats for the movie which is sure to sweep up a great amount of awards over the next year 'Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers' I sit down, the lights fade and following a montage of crap adverts and trailers, the film starts. I take out the pack of 'Haribo Maoam’, which I smuggled in with me, and pull to open them in the same fashion you would with a packet of crisps. As my arms pull apart, so does the bag and 'Maoam' bars fly everywhere. Great. After an embarrassing start filled with people looking, laughing and coming up to me and giving sweets that landed in their direction, I settled down red face and all to watch the film I've been waiting a year to see...
Let me just say 'Woah!’ This film is incredible. I've not read the books but still this movie amazed me more than any that have come before it.
I was pleased to see it flood straight into the action with no "Previously on the Lord Of The Rings...". The opening is just a moving shot of a snow covered cliff/mountain dominated area, but it said so much. It was so peaceful, calm, free, relaxing, and beautiful. Then the camera ventured inside to show a scene from 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' with the fire beast that caused Gandaulf to fall to his grave (or so we thought). When we saw the exterior shot it seemed like all was right with Middle-Earth, but inside was the horrors that plagued the minds of the Fellowship. Even though this sequence was just a dream of the ring bearer Frodo Baggins, it left an impact with me. The film (or should I say story?) then carries on exactly where it left off in the previous instalment. Frodo and Sam are on their danger filled path to Mordour to destroy the one ring, Merry and Pippin are in the clutches of the foe and the remainder of the Fellowship are out to "hunt some Orc". I'm not going to go on with the story as chances are:
A. You've read the book.
B. You've seen the movie already.
C. You don't know what happens and you don't want to find out.
D. You're fed up with by misspelling character and place names.
Instead I'm going to talk about my thoughts. Throughout the film I kept thinking of little quotes and things I was thinking at times to put in this review...I hope I can remember them. Ok so raise your hand if you think Frodo and Sam have a thing for each other? Well in LoTR: TTT they seem to start expressing it a little bit more. In one scene Sam is heard to say "It's me...you're Sam". There’s another moment when they seem to be chatting each other up...see if you can spot the moment I mean. As things are getting worse and worse for the inhabitants of Middle-Earth you'd expect to see the atmosphere of the film getting a lot darker, wouldn't you? Well it seems that Peter Jackson has taken the more light-hearted approach. The Dwarf (Who's name I forget) seems to have become a walking joke, I have to admit he is rather funny at times and it does provide some comic relief and fun for the younger audience. It just seems rather odd in this kind of epic film. I guess the reaction to his "Nobody tosses a Dwarf" remark in the Fellowship was quite good and they wanted more of the same. There's also an almost skateboarding moment in there too, right in the middle of a battle...again I thought was odd but hey some people laughed. Now I know them trees were not created by Jackson and were in the original story, it's just in the film they come across a bit too Never Ending Storyish to me. One last thing I was thinking while watching is when Gandaulf was on his horse quite near the end. As he raises the noise making white horse while dressed in white I couldn't help but yell "Hi Ho Silver Away!" in my head and think how he couldn’t be any more cliché without shouting that himself.
Golem...looked, sounded and was great, especially in his big argument with himself. Like I said I haven't read the books, so didn't realise that he was once a man (or something similar...hobbit?) until somebody told me. I thought it was strange how they didn't mention this in the history of the ring at the start of The Fellowship. But the other day I watched it again (to keep in fresh for Two Towers to continue onto) and I noticed it does tell you, but not in words...in symbolic codes, almost hidden messages. It says how the ring was found and shows a human hand going under water; the next thing we see is the creature Golem with his 'precious' ring. In Two Towers in goes into his past a bit more but still leaves some blanks, which I’m guessing, will be filled in later. Or maybe I just missed them...this time around anyway.
The effects were pretty good, could have been better but will do just fine. I have to admit that jumping on the horse sequence was pretty poor, like somebody here mentioned before. But the things that needed to look good did, so that's all right with me.
Did it live up to my expectations? Yes and then some. Was it better than The Fellowship? I'm not too sure, I think it was, Fellowship had a lot of talking (which it had to) and Towers had lots of running and fighting with amazing landscapes. You really need to watch this film, but before you must have read the books or seen the first film. Don't be an idiot and start on Two Towers, as it won't make too much sense to you.
In the first film I have to say that Aragon (Strider) was my favourite character. I was glad to see that in Two Towers he was pretty much the main character. The only thing is, I feel he may be too good to be true and think he may turn his back before the story is done and they all live happily ever after.
As we pass the half way point of this epic story, Frodo is starting to get a bit messed up and looks permanently stoned and things are going bad for both good and evil...Damn I can't wait for next December. I am so looking forward to the next part and am very tempted to read the book as the suspense is killing me. I just can't help wondering what is going to happen next to whom and how, and how this is all going to wrap up. Can't wait.
...Until then I think I'll watch Fellowship a few more times, maybe even purchase the extended DVD and I also think I'll have to see Towers at least one more time at the cinema. Don't wait for video/DVD...it's so much better on the BIG screen.
Thanks for reading and COME ON DECEMBER 2003!
CDouch
Let me just say 'Woah!’ This film is incredible. I've not read the books but still this movie amazed me more than any that have come before it.
I was pleased to see it flood straight into the action with no "Previously on the Lord Of The Rings...". The opening is just a moving shot of a snow covered cliff/mountain dominated area, but it said so much. It was so peaceful, calm, free, relaxing, and beautiful. Then the camera ventured inside to show a scene from 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' with the fire beast that caused Gandaulf to fall to his grave (or so we thought). When we saw the exterior shot it seemed like all was right with Middle-Earth, but inside was the horrors that plagued the minds of the Fellowship. Even though this sequence was just a dream of the ring bearer Frodo Baggins, it left an impact with me. The film (or should I say story?) then carries on exactly where it left off in the previous instalment. Frodo and Sam are on their danger filled path to Mordour to destroy the one ring, Merry and Pippin are in the clutches of the foe and the remainder of the Fellowship are out to "hunt some Orc". I'm not going to go on with the story as chances are:
A. You've read the book.
B. You've seen the movie already.
C. You don't know what happens and you don't want to find out.
D. You're fed up with by misspelling character and place names.
Instead I'm going to talk about my thoughts. Throughout the film I kept thinking of little quotes and things I was thinking at times to put in this review...I hope I can remember them. Ok so raise your hand if you think Frodo and Sam have a thing for each other? Well in LoTR: TTT they seem to start expressing it a little bit more. In one scene Sam is heard to say "It's me...you're Sam". There’s another moment when they seem to be chatting each other up...see if you can spot the moment I mean. As things are getting worse and worse for the inhabitants of Middle-Earth you'd expect to see the atmosphere of the film getting a lot darker, wouldn't you? Well it seems that Peter Jackson has taken the more light-hearted approach. The Dwarf (Who's name I forget) seems to have become a walking joke, I have to admit he is rather funny at times and it does provide some comic relief and fun for the younger audience. It just seems rather odd in this kind of epic film. I guess the reaction to his "Nobody tosses a Dwarf" remark in the Fellowship was quite good and they wanted more of the same. There's also an almost skateboarding moment in there too, right in the middle of a battle...again I thought was odd but hey some people laughed. Now I know them trees were not created by Jackson and were in the original story, it's just in the film they come across a bit too Never Ending Storyish to me. One last thing I was thinking while watching is when Gandaulf was on his horse quite near the end. As he raises the noise making white horse while dressed in white I couldn't help but yell "Hi Ho Silver Away!" in my head and think how he couldn’t be any more cliché without shouting that himself.
Golem...looked, sounded and was great, especially in his big argument with himself. Like I said I haven't read the books, so didn't realise that he was once a man (or something similar...hobbit?) until somebody told me. I thought it was strange how they didn't mention this in the history of the ring at the start of The Fellowship. But the other day I watched it again (to keep in fresh for Two Towers to continue onto) and I noticed it does tell you, but not in words...in symbolic codes, almost hidden messages. It says how the ring was found and shows a human hand going under water; the next thing we see is the creature Golem with his 'precious' ring. In Two Towers in goes into his past a bit more but still leaves some blanks, which I’m guessing, will be filled in later. Or maybe I just missed them...this time around anyway.
The effects were pretty good, could have been better but will do just fine. I have to admit that jumping on the horse sequence was pretty poor, like somebody here mentioned before. But the things that needed to look good did, so that's all right with me.
Did it live up to my expectations? Yes and then some. Was it better than The Fellowship? I'm not too sure, I think it was, Fellowship had a lot of talking (which it had to) and Towers had lots of running and fighting with amazing landscapes. You really need to watch this film, but before you must have read the books or seen the first film. Don't be an idiot and start on Two Towers, as it won't make too much sense to you.
In the first film I have to say that Aragon (Strider) was my favourite character. I was glad to see that in Two Towers he was pretty much the main character. The only thing is, I feel he may be too good to be true and think he may turn his back before the story is done and they all live happily ever after.
As we pass the half way point of this epic story, Frodo is starting to get a bit messed up and looks permanently stoned and things are going bad for both good and evil...Damn I can't wait for next December. I am so looking forward to the next part and am very tempted to read the book as the suspense is killing me. I just can't help wondering what is going to happen next to whom and how, and how this is all going to wrap up. Can't wait.
...Until then I think I'll watch Fellowship a few more times, maybe even purchase the extended DVD and I also think I'll have to see Towers at least one more time at the cinema. Don't wait for video/DVD...it's so much better on the BIG screen.
Thanks for reading and COME ON DECEMBER 2003!
CDouch
I read it, but all the points have been raised in Vice's LOTR Two towers post
You people really do suck, did anyone at least read it?
POP...corn
So after a long wait to get good seats for the movie which is sure to sweep up a great amount of awards over the next year 'Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers' I sit down, the lights fade and following a montage of crap adverts and trailers, the film starts. I take out the pack of 'Haribo Maoam’, which I smuggled in with me, and pull to open them in the same fashion you would with a packet of crisps. As my arms pull apart, so does the bag and 'Maoam' bars fly everywhere. Great. After an embarrassing start filled with people looking, laughing and coming up to me and giving sweets that landed in their direction, I settled down red face and all to watch the film I've been waiting a year to see...
Let me just say 'Woah!’ This film is incredible. I've not read the books but still this movie amazed me more than any that have come before it.
I was pleased to see it flood straight into the action with no "Previously on the Lord Of The Rings...". The opening is just a moving shot of a snow covered cliff/mountain dominated area, but it said so much. It was so peaceful, calm, free, relaxing, and beautiful. Then the camera ventured inside to show a scene from 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' with the fire beast that caused Gandaulf to fall to his grave (or so we thought). When we saw the exterior shot it seemed like all was right with Middle-Earth, but inside was the horrors that plagued the minds of the Fellowship. Even though this sequence was just a dream of the ring bearer Frodo Baggins, it left an impact with me. The film (or should I say story?) then carries on exactly where it left off in the previous instalment. Frodo and Sam are on their danger filled path to Mordour to destroy the one ring, Merry and Pippin are in the clutches of the foe and the remainder of the Fellowship are out to "hunt some Orc". I'm not going to go on with the story as chances are:
A. You've read the book.
B. You've seen the movie already.
C. You don't know what happens and you don't want to find out.
D. You're fed up with by misspelling character and place names.
Instead I'm going to talk about my thoughts. Throughout the film I kept thinking of little quotes and things I was thinking at times to put in this review...I hope I can remember them. Ok so raise your hand if you think Frodo and Sam have a thing for each other? Well in LoTR: TTT they seem to start expressing it a little bit more. In one scene Sam is heard to say "It's me...you're Sam". There’s another moment when they seem to be chatting each other up...see if you can spot the moment I mean. As things are getting worse and worse for the inhabitants of Middle-Earth you'd expect to see the atmosphere of the film getting a lot darker, wouldn't you? Well it seems that Peter Jackson has taken the more light-hearted approach. The Dwarf (Who's name I forget) seems to have become a walking joke, I have to admit he is rather funny at times and it does provide some comic relief and fun for the younger audience. It just seems rather odd in this kind of epic film. I guess the reaction to his "Nobody tosses a Dwarf" remark in the Fellowship was quite good and they wanted more of the same. There's also an almost skateboarding moment in there too, right in the middle of a battle...again I thought was odd but hey some people laughed. Now I know them trees were not created by Jackson and were in the original story, it's just in the film they come across a bit too Never Ending Storyish to me. One last thing I was thinking while watching is when Gandaulf was on his horse quite near the end. As he raises the noise making white horse while dressed in white I couldn't help but yell "Hi Ho Silver Away!" in my head and think how he couldn’t be any more cliché without shouting that himself.
Golem...looked, sounded and was great, especially in his big argument with himself. Like I said I haven't read the books, so didn't realise that he was once a man (or something similar...hobbit?) until somebody told me. I thought it was strange how they didn't mention this in the history of the ring at the start of The Fellowship. But the other day I watched it again (to keep in fresh for Two Towers to continue onto) and I noticed it does tell you, but not in words...in symbolic codes, almost hidden messages. It says how the ring was found and shows a human hand going under water; the next thing we see is the creature Golem with his 'precious' ring. In Two Towers in goes into his past a bit more but still leaves some blanks, which I’m guessing, will be filled in later. Or maybe I just missed them...this time around anyway.
The effects were pretty good, could have been better but will do just fine. I have to admit that jumping on the horse sequence was pretty poor, like somebody here mentioned before. But the things that needed to look good did, so that's all right with me.
Did it live up to my expectations? Yes and then some. Was it better than The Fellowship? I'm not too sure, I think it was, Fellowship had a lot of talking (which it had to) and Towers had lots of running and fighting with amazing landscapes. You really need to watch this film, but before you must have read the books or seen the first film. Don't be an idiot and start on Two Towers, as it won't make too much sense to you.
In the first film I have to say that Aragon (Strider) was my favourite character. I was glad to see that in Two Towers he was pretty much the main character. The only thing is, I feel he may be too good to be true and think he may turn his back before the story is done and they all live happily ever after.
As we pass the half way point of this epic story, Frodo is starting to get a bit messed up and looks permanently stoned and things are going bad for both good and evil...Damn I can't wait for next December. I am so looking forward to the next part and am very tempted to read the book as the suspense is killing me. I just can't help wondering what is going to happen next to whom and how, and how this is all going to wrap up. Can't wait.
...Until then I think I'll watch Fellowship a few more times, maybe even purchase the extended DVD and I also think I'll have to see Towers at least one more time at the cinema. Don't wait for video/DVD...it's so much better on the BIG screen.
Thanks for reading and COME ON DECEMBER 2003!
CDouch
Let me just say 'Woah!’ This film is incredible. I've not read the books but still this movie amazed me more than any that have come before it.
I was pleased to see it flood straight into the action with no "Previously on the Lord Of The Rings...". The opening is just a moving shot of a snow covered cliff/mountain dominated area, but it said so much. It was so peaceful, calm, free, relaxing, and beautiful. Then the camera ventured inside to show a scene from 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' with the fire beast that caused Gandaulf to fall to his grave (or so we thought). When we saw the exterior shot it seemed like all was right with Middle-Earth, but inside was the horrors that plagued the minds of the Fellowship. Even though this sequence was just a dream of the ring bearer Frodo Baggins, it left an impact with me. The film (or should I say story?) then carries on exactly where it left off in the previous instalment. Frodo and Sam are on their danger filled path to Mordour to destroy the one ring, Merry and Pippin are in the clutches of the foe and the remainder of the Fellowship are out to "hunt some Orc". I'm not going to go on with the story as chances are:
A. You've read the book.
B. You've seen the movie already.
C. You don't know what happens and you don't want to find out.
D. You're fed up with by misspelling character and place names.
Instead I'm going to talk about my thoughts. Throughout the film I kept thinking of little quotes and things I was thinking at times to put in this review...I hope I can remember them. Ok so raise your hand if you think Frodo and Sam have a thing for each other? Well in LoTR: TTT they seem to start expressing it a little bit more. In one scene Sam is heard to say "It's me...you're Sam". There’s another moment when they seem to be chatting each other up...see if you can spot the moment I mean. As things are getting worse and worse for the inhabitants of Middle-Earth you'd expect to see the atmosphere of the film getting a lot darker, wouldn't you? Well it seems that Peter Jackson has taken the more light-hearted approach. The Dwarf (Who's name I forget) seems to have become a walking joke, I have to admit he is rather funny at times and it does provide some comic relief and fun for the younger audience. It just seems rather odd in this kind of epic film. I guess the reaction to his "Nobody tosses a Dwarf" remark in the Fellowship was quite good and they wanted more of the same. There's also an almost skateboarding moment in there too, right in the middle of a battle...again I thought was odd but hey some people laughed. Now I know them trees were not created by Jackson and were in the original story, it's just in the film they come across a bit too Never Ending Storyish to me. One last thing I was thinking while watching is when Gandaulf was on his horse quite near the end. As he raises the noise making white horse while dressed in white I couldn't help but yell "Hi Ho Silver Away!" in my head and think how he couldn’t be any more cliché without shouting that himself.
Golem...looked, sounded and was great, especially in his big argument with himself. Like I said I haven't read the books, so didn't realise that he was once a man (or something similar...hobbit?) until somebody told me. I thought it was strange how they didn't mention this in the history of the ring at the start of The Fellowship. But the other day I watched it again (to keep in fresh for Two Towers to continue onto) and I noticed it does tell you, but not in words...in symbolic codes, almost hidden messages. It says how the ring was found and shows a human hand going under water; the next thing we see is the creature Golem with his 'precious' ring. In Two Towers in goes into his past a bit more but still leaves some blanks, which I’m guessing, will be filled in later. Or maybe I just missed them...this time around anyway.
The effects were pretty good, could have been better but will do just fine. I have to admit that jumping on the horse sequence was pretty poor, like somebody here mentioned before. But the things that needed to look good did, so that's all right with me.
Did it live up to my expectations? Yes and then some. Was it better than The Fellowship? I'm not too sure, I think it was, Fellowship had a lot of talking (which it had to) and Towers had lots of running and fighting with amazing landscapes. You really need to watch this film, but before you must have read the books or seen the first film. Don't be an idiot and start on Two Towers, as it won't make too much sense to you.
In the first film I have to say that Aragon (Strider) was my favourite character. I was glad to see that in Two Towers he was pretty much the main character. The only thing is, I feel he may be too good to be true and think he may turn his back before the story is done and they all live happily ever after.
As we pass the half way point of this epic story, Frodo is starting to get a bit messed up and looks permanently stoned and things are going bad for both good and evil...Damn I can't wait for next December. I am so looking forward to the next part and am very tempted to read the book as the suspense is killing me. I just can't help wondering what is going to happen next to whom and how, and how this is all going to wrap up. Can't wait.
...Until then I think I'll watch Fellowship a few more times, maybe even purchase the extended DVD and I also think I'll have to see Towers at least one more time at the cinema. Don't wait for video/DVD...it's so much better on the BIG screen.
Thanks for reading and COME ON DECEMBER 2003!
CDouch