Kylilin Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 I'm going to see The Two Towers in about 20 minutes, I'll give a spoiler free (when possible) review when I get back. My fiance doesn't want to see it so I am going by myself, which will definately be better, because I'm not in the mood to hear comments on how ugly the orcs are or how cute Legolas is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 I'm not a Lord of the Rings fan but let me guess, Legolas is that young long blond haired elf? right? My favourite one is the Ranger and I find that stupid hobbit (the ring bearer) puny and pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 The hobbits are puny and pathetic. Supposedly they get better. I hear two of them become knights of Rohan and Gondor respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 I'm going to see it tomorrow, can't wait. Read some reviews already, all quite positive. And Hobbits aren't puny and pathetic, they seem to endure evil stuff like rings of power and orcs very well. Go Frodo, yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylilin Posted December 18, 2002 Author Share Posted December 18, 2002 Samwise Gamgee is neither puny nor pathetic in my book. Nor are Pippin and Merry, I forget which one was a knight of Rohan and a knight of Gondor. As for Frodo, well, lets just say that he's got a gentle soul. Now, on to The Two Towers: WOW!!!! Fantastic movie, I nearly peed in my pants because I didn't want to miss anything. Smeagol/Gollum is the greatest CG character I have ever seen, and Gimli is funny as hell. That is all I will say about the movie though, I don't want to give out any spoilers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 I think Merry was a knight of Rohan and Pippin was a knight of Gondor. Anyway, not looking forward to TTT since FotR sucked pretty badly. I'll probably see it, but not any time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Just came back from theaters, the movie was sublime. And yes the Dwarf guy is very funny Especially when he's waiting in the fort and can't see a thing, lol! The way Legolas jumped on that horse ruled and kicked universal arse. Once again, sublime movie. Can't wait until the 3rd movie comes out. Sublime I still think Hobbits are puny and pathetic, but hey, at least these ones are courageous. Sublime On other news, I got to see the trailer to Dumb & Dumberer and Bruce Almighty, both movies starring Jim Carrey. I can't wait to see'em, especially Bruce Almighty, that movie looks funny as hell!! BTW, The Two Towers was Sublime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Beh...they changed quite a few things in the movie that bothered me a bit. First off, they left out entire chapters that were important parts of the book! "The Road to Isengard", "Flotsam and Jetsam", "The Voice of Saruman" and "The Palantir". Nowhere to be found in the movie! UGH. Second, they brought the elves into the picture at Helm's Deep, led by Haldir of Lórien no less. What was that? I'll post more when I see it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 Well they had to remove some stuff from the book or else the movie would have been 6 hours long (maybe even more...) Personally I wouldn't have complained if the movie was 12 hours long but hey, not everybody is like me. BTW, I never read the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba The Hunt Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 I would have liked each movie to be 12 hours long if it meant it would be exactly true to the book, but i guess most people wouldnt have sat through that, maybe they could have done 4 or 5 movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 man, quit yer fuggin whining, its NOT going to be just like the books.... and they will ad about 45 minutes to Two Towers when they release the extended version of it in November..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted December 20, 2002 Share Posted December 20, 2002 One thing that's for sure is that I'm gonna buy the Lord Of The Ring Trilogy DVD pack when it comes out in about a year and a half. It will Probably be priced around 100$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tierce Posted December 22, 2002 Share Posted December 22, 2002 Skipped School...Saw the movie...Wetted myself...Seing it again Monday night. Great movie all in all...didn't like what they did to Faramir though, he was less noble and honorable than Boromir, and in the books(i really hate comparing the movie to the book)..he was the opposite. But see the movie...if you don't like the dramatic parts...you'll like the pants-wetting action scenes...and if you don't like that...you'll definately wanna see it, just to see 5 minutes of Liv Tyler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 Originally posted by Kylilin how cute Legolas is. I wish I was pretty like Legolas :( :( :( Easterlings omg omg. *nute faints* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taarkin Posted December 23, 2002 Share Posted December 23, 2002 Meh. I just want to know where all those orcs came from, why they fought for Saruman, and how he fed all them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 Don't they eat each other? It would at least explain the bad condition of their teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 Orcs are perverse, corrupted versions of elves. Notice the pointed ears? They're kind of the opposite of elves and have been around since I think about the Second Age when they fought for Sauron in the Great War. Most of Saruman's army was composed of Uruk-hai, though. Uruk-hai are orcs crossed with humans. So just like half-elves possess both qualities of elf and human, Uruk-hai possess both qualities of orc and human. Their human side allows them to run in daytime, something orcs cannot do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 Actually, they could run in daytime, they just don't like to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taarkin Posted December 25, 2002 Share Posted December 25, 2002 So to get 10,000 Uruk-hai, Saruman had to first corrupt a bunch of elves to turn them into orcs, then get 10,000 women raped(I'm assuming raped, since I don't see anyone willingly doing anything with an orc)? Heck, more like 20,000 women, assuming that only the males are warriors, then wait 20 years or so for them to mature. Plus losses for cannibalization, since they don't seem to have a problem with eating each other and the lands around Isangard look barren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taos Posted December 25, 2002 Share Posted December 25, 2002 I really enjoyed TTT.....sure they didn't include everything from the books, but that's ok by me. Some things could have been done better, but that's just the way it goes I guess. I really enjoyed Gollum/Smeagol, I dont think I've ever seen a better cg character (maybe Yoda).......I give it 4/5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 I'm going to keep going back until I can close my eyes and watch the Battle for Helm's Deep from memory. I ruined a perfectly good pair of pants during that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Originally posted by Assassin Skipped School...Saw the movie...Wetted myself...Seing it again Monday night. Great movie all in all...didn't like what they did to Faramir though, he was less noble and honorable than Boromir, and in the books(i really hate comparing the movie to the book)..he was the opposite. But see the movie...if you don't like the dramatic parts...you'll like the pants-wetting action scenes...and if you don't like that...you'll definately wanna see it, just to see 5 minutes of Liv Tyler. I thought Faramir was pretty noble when he let them go............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylilin Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 Faramir wasn't such a jerk in the book though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tierce Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Yeah, he was a major ass in the movie...in the book he lets them go right after the whole Gollum incident instead of taking them to..Osigalth...or wherever the hell they went...I think Peter Jackson did it that way just to show the audience that Faramir is noble and unlike his bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 No, I think it had more to do with the fact that there just wasn't enough tension around Frodo and Sam. Gollum's acting all nice and helpful, and we know that they are on the border of Mordor, but after the encounter with Farimir, there just isn't much left for them to do until they get to the tunnel with Shelob (and that was moved to the next movie.) One the one hand you have the rest of the fellowship fighting for thier lives in these epic battles, on two fronts,.. on the other hand you have Frodo and Sam enjoying a nice meal and a chat with Farimir in a cave under a waterfall, then each going thier own way? Seems a little unbalanced. Doesn't make for exciting movie-making. You can ratchet up the tension in the narrative of a book by describing the inner fears and turmoil inside the characters, but that's REAL hard to show on the screen. I mean,.. how many times can you show Frodo staring at the Ring, looking all frowny and troubled towards Mount Doom, or saying that "the Ring's getting heavier, Sam" before it gets old? Putting the characters in real, immediate peril is what makes movies exciting. So the character of Farimir and the situation around him had to be changed to balance out the tension in the situations between all the major characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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