The Two Towers : Spoiler thread

[Devilman]

Oh my god, I just got back from seeing this movie. NEver, and i mean NEVER have i seen such an emotional film. I think i cried more at this one than i did at braveheart. This is by far my favorite movie, (and that's not just because it's fresh in my mind, because i took that into account.)

Spoilers:

Man, those Ents look sweet! And when they went to war and were stomping out the orcs, GODDANGIT! They were RUTHLESS!

I also felt really sympathetic for Gollem, (don't act like you didn't). He almost looked like he fit in some of the scenes with real people in them, but look genuine in the scenes where he was the focal character.

When the Elves came up and pronounced that they had died beside men before and would do so again, I was crying waterfalls. It was hard for me to miss alot of what happened after that.

So many powerful scenes. I was in awe of the splender of this film. Pure magic.

I'll have to collect my thoughts on it later and post more.

[Devilman]

OK. SO this movie was so good, it invaded my dreams. I had glorious dreams of middle earth and the fantastical creatures that inhabit it.


Just a quick question. At the end, when Gandalf comes to rescue the castle with those extra 50 men or so he found scraggling along, *in the book: wasn't there a part where he gets in the middle of the army of orcs and smashes his staff down on the ground and there's like this huge shockwave of death that radiates from him like a ripple in a pond? I could have sworn that was in the book, but i couldn't remember if my memory served me correctly. I could have been thinking about the Ash'a man (wheel of time), but i don't think so.

[Inkthinker]

Couldn;t say about the missing Gandalf moment... I know of several scenes that were cut, though, so we'll be getting another "Extended Edition" DVD, which is fine by me.

I thought it suffered a bit for being the "middle movie" (starts in the middle of things, ends in the middle of things, lots of things happen in the middle of things) but I loved it. When the third is completed this is going to be a bitchin' 10-hour epic film. Five years from now they'll have to take a whole week to play it on TV, or make it a marathon on cable...

Loooved the fights, there was only a couple of scenes where the CG wasn't working for me (mostly in that first fight with the Worgs) but Gollum was EXCELLENT... he's completely wiped the effects of horrible CG characters like a certain floppy-eared dipshit from my mind. His internal split-personality scene was a serious high point in the film, and speaks well of the body actors and voice actors and animators. They perfectly captured the pitiful and frightening aspects of Smeagol's character.

Battle scenes rocked, a bit cluttered at moments (my favorite fight so far is still at Balin's Tomb) but every one was breathtaking. I do wish they had shown how Gandalf and the Balrog went from miles below the earth to the top of the mountain, though.

Visually AMAZING, loved every bit of eye candy.

And now the fun of waiting ANOTHER WHOLE YEAR for the rest of this... and after that, by god, I want them to make The Hobbit. They gotta do it, I say.

[Chris Piers]

Yeah, it was fun.

[saTHOMASo]

i personally believe the FELLOWSHIP was/is better than TTT ...

okay the ents looked nice --- but not as i have imagined them ... i thought they would be bigger ...

hilarious / scenes / that sucked:
1) legolas "surfing" down the stairs on that orc shield --- omg that sucked
2) the whole movie long the ents moved in slowmotion --- when they finally broke through the dam the water came out in slow-mo but the ents ran away
3) grima wormtongue's teethcolor changed within the scenes ... one time they dark yellow ... and 10 min later they were "white"
4) am i wrong or does TTT-book end after Kankra, the spider who Smeagol "hired", shows up and bites Frodo? ... i was so much looking forward to seeing her ... but NO! ... now i have to wait another year


i may sound like i really hated the movie... No, not at all! ... it was great and i really enjoyed watching it ... i just think the first one was better ...

[shinolahead]

The only things that bugged me was the Liv Tyler flashbacks (nicely done but put in the middle of other stuff you weren't ready to quit watching yet) and some of the compositing was sloppy.

All in all a really bad-ass film. I need to go see it again just for that slo-mo shot of Legolas flipping up onto the horse.

[Inkthinker]

Originally posted by saTHOMASo

1) legolas "surfing" down the stairs on that orc shield --- omg that sucked

THBBBBT!! I thought it was cool. Besides, it was no surprise... that shot was in all the trailers...

4) am i wrong or does TTT-book end after Kankra, the spider who Smeagol "hired", shows up and bites Frodo? ... i was so much looking forward to seeing her ... but NO! ... now i have to wait another year

No, you're right... a lot of people are kinda peeved about that.

I agree that Fellowship was a bit better, but as I mentioned, this is the "between" movie, the middle child, it lacks a lot of the 3-part necessity that all stories need to have (introduction, conflict, resolution) and so it's going to have a hard time standing on it's own as well as the previous.

It's only when we get the 3rd part nect year that we'll have the whole shebang. Then this film will have it's proper place as the bridge between the beginning of the saga and the ending.

[Devilman]

Also, is it just me, or did Treebeard remind you of a certain rockbiter from Never Endings Story. I thought that was cool though.








As far as ending the movie the way they did, I think the director tried to go by the audiences reactions at the end of the first film, (where everyone was like "what the ****, i had to sit and wait for 3 hours for THAT!?!?) and decided better against it. I think it was the right call on his part.

The movement of the ents was good. as far as the slow motion effects. When we watch a plane fly by on the runway, it goes by relatively fast, yet when we see it flying overhead of us, it looks to be going at a snail's pace. Am I right? It was that.

[ManinMotion]

Yeah, I heard a lot of complaints from fans of the book that basically denounced TTT from straying so far from the book. One guy even said that if they weren't going to make TTT then they should not have called it "TTT". Not being familiar with the literature, I didn't care. The movie was just really amazing. The beginning scene with Gandalf fighting the balrog was jawdroppingly cool. The part where they fall through the hole and hit the water below them was simply brilliant.

One big thing I've noticed about this film is that there was never more than one minute passing by that the music score wasn't played. You can hear the score throughout 95% of the movie...which was highly effective. I can't way to see it again and again and again...

[Devilman]

Just for shits and giggles:


Does anybody smell Oscar?