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  • Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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  • #2
    Someone's anxious...

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    • #3
      I recently purchased the first one and I ust say, watching it at home with my 40" Widescreen in High Def /w DD5.1 was much, MUCH better than in the theatre(excpet for the size of the screen ). I am really looking forward to the second one too.

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      • #4
        I can't wait for the director's cut for the 1st one to come out on DVD. It adds a whole hour.
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        • #5
          The thing that was wrong with this movie in the theater... although I DID watch it 5 times in the theater...

          Was the digital-to-analogue transfer. The quantizing just didn't work, making some scenes extremely jumpy. It was much better transferred to DVD.

          Plus the lighting was more even - which was good in some scenes, bad in others. Part of what I love about this movie is the ambience Jackson makes in a scene. Some scenes just didn't feel as ... alive on the DVD.

          - Gurm

          P.S. The DC only adds 40 minutes. And ... read the book, it'll satisfy you a lot more.
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          • #6
            Yeah the book is a lot better. I can't believe they left out Tom Bambadil, the Willow, and the Barrow Downs. Of course that would have added at least a whole hour to the movie if not more. I've read the book at least 8 times and the Silmariillion, etc. But you have to admit, turning Tolkien's fiction into a movie is freakin hard, esp Lord of the Rings because there is just so much to it that it would be impossible to fit it all in just 3 movies. But I say that the 1st movie does his work justice and I'm sure the other 2 movies will follow in suit.
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            • #7
              I don't think you can do it any better.

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              • #8
                The issue with the barrows is one of swords.

                My big complaints with Jackson's version of the movie all have to do with swords. Let me elaborate:

                1. Narsil/Anduril. In the book, Aragorn carries the shards of Narsil with him everywhere. No biggie to move 'em to Rivendell. BUT, in the book it's reforged before they leave Rivendell, and everywhere they go he says "see I'm the king" and they say "no you ain't" and he says "yeah i am - see, i have the broken sword that has been reforged". And it glows. Whee! Actually, there's a quote in the calendar that isn't in the book, about the sword and reforging, so I think it may have just been cut. We'll see in November.

                2. Gandalf's sword... also an elvish blade, it should have glowed blue whenever Frodo's did. Just a technical oversight, I'm sure.

                3. Merry and Pippin's swords... came from the barrow. They were magical swords forged by the men of Westernesse to fight the Witch King. That's important, 'cuz in the third book... umm... hrm. (Spoiler - highlight to see...) Merry uses the sword to hack at the Witch King's ankle, unbinding the magic that protects him from mortal blades, and allowing Eowyn to deliver the killing stroke. So I dunno how Jackson is gonna explain that one away.

                Otherwise, all the cuts were necessary. Glorfindel was cool but giving his part to Arwen didn't hurt the story any. I wish they had made it clearer that Arwen only let loose the spell, not cast it... that Elrond cast it and Gandalf enhanced it. *shrug*

                As for Bombadil, he was useless to the story. Nifty, but Tolkien himself admitted to putting him there as an inside joke for his kids.

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                • #9
                  Though to be fair I don't think Aragorn actually does the "I am king" bit 'til the Two Towers, so that remains to be seen. Everything else though I agree with. That Aragorn just handed the hobbits those four swords and skipping Narsil being reforged was just completely bad. But I think one of the biggest things they left out was the friendship that Gimli and Legolas. From what rumors I've heard, that's some of what is going to be in the director's cut. (That and the fondness that Gimli shows Galadriel)

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                  • #10
                    my only complaints with "fellowship of the ring", was that Merry and Pippin was a little to childish in the movie.
                    and that the Gandalf vs. Saruman fight seemed a little out of touch with the way they were in the book, they never fought each other, like that in the book, they respected each other too much. besides I always viewed saruman a lot more like the sneaky passive type, that manipulate others into fighting for him, he had almost extaordinary skills as a manipulator, in the book, whith much emphasis on his persuasive voice.
                    but I guess it is hard to make a movie that satisfy everybody, when all the fans of the book already have set up their mind, about what the charachters should be like.

                    and yes I missed the Gimli/Legolas friendship too.

                    anyway I liked the movie alot, and it will be in my future dvd-collection without a doubt.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

                      Originally posted by BuddMan
                      Won't be long.
                      Dammit! You had to bring that up didn't you? Now I can't wait!!
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                      • #12
                        Another thing about the movie is that Frodo never sales Bag End. He just leaves. In the book he sales it to the Sacksville Baggins (not sure if I spelled it right), and that has some bearing on the end of the trilogy when they go back to the Shire. I wonder how he's gonna end the last movie...
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by BuddMan
                          Another thing about the movie is that Frodo never sales Bag End. He just leaves. In the book he sales it to the Sacksville Baggins (not sure if I spelled it right), and that has some bearing on the end of the trilogy when they go back to the Shire. I wonder how he's gonna end the last movie...
                          Did you "sale" your soul to the great Bud again tonight, oh illustrious English major?

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                          • #14
                            Darn Orks you can't take them anywhere.....ROFL!!!!
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                            • #15
                              Glorfindel was cool but giving his part to Arwen didn't hurt the story any. I wish they had made it clearer that Arwen only let loose the spell, not cast it... that Elrond cast it and Gandalf enhanced it. *shrug*
                              I see that as another part of the problem that TDB already pointed out. In the movie, the hobbits seem like they need babysitters. Merry & Pippin are introduced as childish thieves that stumble upon all this, when they really did know what they were in for. Also, in the movie Arwen was there with Frodo, when in the book Frodo was doing much more on his own, managing the horse even as the shard was draining him. I wish they hadn't done the Aragorn and Arwen thing so early.

                              Oh, and a nitpicky thing that I hated just because I don't understand why they needed to change it: in the books, humans never got their hands on the Ring, but in the movie didn't Boromir pick it up when Frodo lost it in the snow? Boromir would have never withstood the temptation.
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