Two Towers spoilers: DO NOT GO IN IF YOU WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!

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UberDragon

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I just got back from seeing the Two Towers and I must say that while it is better than the Fellowship, there are a lot of inconsistancies (sp?) compared to the book. More than the first movie. Up until the following points , everything is accurate according to the book, but then, we hit some snags. First off, Faramir is just like Boromir in the film, which as anyone who has read the books knows, that he was the complete opposite of his brother. Second, when Frodo and Sam are supposed to be headed towards the crossroads (book), they are in fact being taken by Faramir to Gondor. They stop in Osgiliath where Gondor is fighting a group of Orcs. Frodo flips out when a flying Nazgul shows up, but Sam saves him just in time. Oh, and if you think that Shelob is in this one , you're wrong. That will have to wait 'til next year. Next, we reach the battle of Helm's Deep. To start off, Aragorn is separated from the Rohirrim during a fight with Warg riders (which didn't happen in the book), and is thrown into a river where he hallucinates about Arwen in Elrond's house. Elrond is telling Arwen to leave for the ship to Valinor and, get this, she
leaves because he convinces her that if she marries Aragorn and he becomes king, when he dies she will be alone and she will have to face the "bitterness of mortality." Then, when he finally reaches Helm's Deep, there are only 300 Rohirrim against the Uruk-Hai army. But then, Haldir (the elf guard from Lorien) shows up with a bunch of Elves. Oh yeah, Haldir dies. Then Gandalf shows up with Eomer's men, who were exiled by Grima in the beginning of the movie. That didn't happen either. They win the fight, but they don't go to Isengard. The movie ends with Gollum/ Smeagol/ Slinker & Stinker plotting to give Frodo and Sam to shelob and Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli riding to the muster of Rohan. The Ents were well done, but their meeting ends with them not going to Isengard. Treebeard offers to take Merry and Pippin to the edge of Fangorn where they can go north to the Shire. Merry is really upset and says that if they don't stop Saruman, there won't be a Shire left. They trick Treebeard into going by Isengard where he sees that there are a lot of dead trees. He gets the Ents to attack Orthanc and they flood it. That's pretty much all the big stuff wrong with this movie. Gollum is also done really well and his split-personality arguments are good. I know that people like me ruin good movies for those who want to see them, but hey, life sucks. Deal with it.
 
This only comfirms what I think the movie will be like...absolute rubbish

Are there any decent movies on at the cinema? ANY?
 
NOOOOOO!!!! The movie was good, I was just ranting about how they could have followed the book a little more than they did.
 
uber crap

Don't get me wrong. I loved the first one. Lots of fun, lots of charm, lots of suspense. I went into this one and got lots of . . . nothing. Two hours of nothing was awarded by an amazing Helm's Deep battle. The battle was worth the $7.50, but this was just a boring movie. I was restless through its entierity. It wasn't Star Wars Holiday Special bad, but close enough that I don't have to ever see it again. Truly the most boring movie I've seen in a very long time. I'd sit through "Enough" with Jar Jar Binks before I'd see this again. I truly wish I was lying. I was horrifically disappointed by this.
 
I agree. I had to stand in line for an hour and a half, sit through half an hour of previews, then the 3 hour movie. The best part of the evening was the previews.
 
yay for the trailers!!

indeed. Bad Boys 2 and X-Men 2 were the highlights of the evening . . . oh yeah, and Old School. LOL
 
What?! Not worth it? If the fight scenes weren't good enough for you, wasn't Viggo Manzeli (Aragorn)?

The only thing I found annoying was the bloody moralizing at the end, and all the romantic crap between Aragorn and the Elf.
 
Aragorn was cool. Indeed. But I quickly got tired of the "you know he's not dead but we're gonna pretend like he's going to die" thing that Peter Jackson seems to like to do. It was Frodo and Gandalf in the first one, and then it was the Hobbits and Aragorn. As "epic" as these movies might be, they don't have the balls to kill off anyone of importance. Nobody died in this movie except for the mindless, faceless "stormtroopers." Oh, and the elf.
 
**SPOILERS**

This movie was awesome! How can you not like it!? So nobody died except that one elf dude that Aragon was friends with. But you have to admit that when the elves showed up at Helms Point you were like "Hell Yeah!."

What I found funny was when the wall got blown up at Helms Point, about 12 people in the audience (including me) said "Oh ****!"

Also, Golem blew Yoda out of the water in the way of special effects.
 
yeah, so?

it was awesome when the elves showed up. i loved the entire Helm's Deep sequence. but by that point i really didn't care. when the wall blew up, i laughed at all the orcs who got crushed and then asked myself "if they can rig that sh!t up, what's stopping them from creating cannons or just friggin' big bombs to drop from those dragons? why's everybody running around with bows and arrows?"

and don't diss my man yoda. six months ago, everyone was raving about yoda. now all of a sudden he's uber crap. whatever. just goes to show how fickle sci-fi/fantasy nerds are. and seriously, let's face it. if there hadn't been a Jar Jar Binks, there wouldn't be a Gollum (at least not CG).

the movie suffered from intsense boredom. i think even Gandalf was bored. he just kinda moped around (when he wasn't renacting Braveheart calvary charges). all i'm saying is that Helm's Deep was the only respectable sequence in the film but by then it was too little too late.
 
I loved the movie

Gandalf wasn't in the movie much. My opinion of him in this was that he was almost too cool. I liked him better in grey.

How can you say the film was boring? Opening scene: action. Five minutes later gollum falls on the hobbits, they fight, then gollum is screaming. Also, the orcs were awesome, but at some points they seemed too disgusting or too vile, I don't know...

Gollum is easily the second best character in scifi history. First place goes to darth vader, and I doubt that he will ever lose that position, at least in my heart. That part where he was arguing with himself...just brilliant. He looked perfect in some scenes, almost perfect in others. But I loved the voice, the lines, the way he looked, moved, thought.

The part with the Oliphant kicked ass. Major ass kickage right there. Also, the mordor humans looked sweet, there might have been women under those masks.

Yoda was cool, but his lines were shitty because George Lucas has been sniffing too much of the glue he used in building all those star destroyers, he lost the ability to both write and make a good movie. The first two can be hailed by most, even non scifi-junkies, to be good films, the third is a bit iffy in my opinion, but besides the action, the first two suck. They really suck. I just wish the man could make a good movie...almost makes me think he's turned evil or something.
 
bah, two towers was over-rated. they DIDN'T follow the book, they made everyone *** (***?) and if they put 5 minutes more slow-mo in, they'd need enya to do the whole soundtrack.

Watch the language please.
 
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