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xyle_one:
Anyone go see the Two Towers last night??? it was fucking cool. very happy  

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax ]

KernelPanic:
I saw it yesterday at twelve noon (yesterday was the first day over here) and yeah I liked it, I liked it alot.
They cut lots of the character building but it is a film and they have a cinema audience to cater for and it was good. They seemed to change more than in the first film, they put differing levels of emphasis on things than the book did but like I said it is a film.
'tis very good though , they did the book justice and I enjoyed all three hours of it.

psyjax:
You can't complain about character building. Remember, you are not watching a sequel, you are watching the middle part of a very long movie. The characters were already well fleshed out from the first film, you know 'em already. The characters they introduced were very well rendered, especialy gollum, no pun intended  

As far as changing things around, I found it to be quite faithfull. They moved parts around, but all the parts were there. Shelob and the other bits at the end of the book, like Gandalf and the Rohan confronting Saruman who is being held by treebeard will appear at the beginning of The Return of the King.

Jackson himself said this. He made the choice, because the pace of the last book is decidedly slower than the other two. As a result he chose to move those parts around to spice things up. I'm happy with his decision.

The movie was excellent  

pkd_lives:
ohh... twist a sore point.

As for what they did to Gimli - man that just wasn't fucking right - Jackson should be kicked fucking hard for that, especially as he also screwed up some rather significant stuff with Merry and Pipin (it will be interesting to see how he manages to ignore a few major plot holes now).

Now don't get me wrong, it was a very good film, and worth getting home at 1.30am for, but I went because of the story - I could give two fucks for a film makers interpretation.

I saw the first one three times (it takes wild horses to drag me to see any film - so this was unprecedented) but I will now wait until the third one comes out - I have absolutly no desire to see it ever again. Too many things were not done right this time, and too much of what I consider necessary story was left out, and too much directors' idea stuff was put in.

DC:

quote:Originally posted by Linux Frank:
but I went because of the story - I could give two fucks for a film makers interpretation.

--- End quote ---


You're an idiot if you go to TTT for the story. Go for the special effects or an opportunity to see Middle Earth with your eyes instead of your fantasy.

If you want a STORY go read the damned book.

Anyway, I still need to go see TTT. I did see FotR. Nice movie, mostly true to the book, but hopelessly wrong on some parts.

I wonder if they'll ever movie-ize The Hobbit. Or the Silmarillion, that'll be something else  

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