> From: Horn, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good. I thought the first > half was excellent. Extremely faithful to the book. There wasn't anything > I would have changed about it. The second half wandered a bit from the book > but was still very well done. > > * > * > * > * > * > * > Spoiler Space > * > * > * > * > * > * > * > Hmmmm.... that should be enough... > * > * > * > Random thoughts: > > I thought the CGI on Gollum and Treebeard was excellent. At times, I found > myself completely forgetting that Gollum wasn't being played by a real > person. There was a time or two when the integration of Merry and Pippin > with Treebeard didn't quite work, but that was a rarity. > > I loved Gollum's internal battle of Stinker and Slinker. > > The Riders of Rohan were perfect. Theoden was well done. Eowyn was great. > > The attack on Isengard was great. The Battle for Helm's Deep was amazing. > > I don't like that Gimli has become comic relief. The dwarves are a noble > race. There was a little bit of that in the first movie but much more in > this one. What with the dwarf-tossing and the horse bits and everything > else...
But those dwarf lines were for the most part directly from the book. > Frodo and Sam were taken to Osgilath? Huh? I do not understand the point > of that. I guess it was to further develop Faramir and to underscore his > rejection of the Ring. But I thought it made him seem weaker, rather than > stronger. Didn't like that. Agreed. > The end of the movie definitely stressed the importance of Samwise to the > quest and his "hero status"... > > Best of all, some of the rumors about this film proved to be incorrect. > Arwen was *not* at Helm's Deep though some elves were. Faramir did take > Frodo and Sam to the secret refuge. And a few others. And they cut it off before the Real end of TTT. Personally I would have cut it off right after Galdalf said 'the fight for middle earth begins' or gone the whole way. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l