The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Posted : 11 months, 3 weeks ago at Nov 29 9:32

"The battle for Helms Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin." Directed by: Peter Jackson Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Thriller Running time: 179 minutes My review: The saga continues: Hobbits Frodo and Sam press on to Mordor in the company of the mysterious Gollum. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli travel to the troubled Rohan, while Merry and Pippin discover a new ally in the shape of Treebeard the tree-shepherd. This film was more emotional that the first film for various reasons. Those reasons mostly being because I found The Two Towers darker than The Fellowship Of The Ring. Also, because of the darker story and it was more of an epic film mostly because there were...Read more

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 14 0:12

The middle parts of movie trilogies are frequently the best ones (Godfather II, The Empire Strikes Back, Spider-Man 2 come to mind). I'm not sure of the exact reasons but it's usually a combination of familiarity with the characters and one of these following two reasons: they try to end with a bang in the third movie and go a little overboard or the whole thing has just run out of fresh ideas. The Two Towers is the best of the LOTR trilogy, but not for any of the reasons mentioned above. The other two movies in this particular trilogy are both excellent movies, both deserving acclaim. It's just that The Two Towers is somehow ... better. The movie deviates from Tolkien's book the most of three, and it turns out to be a good thing. The scriptwriters move some events around, fiddle with s...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Jun 16 2:05

"All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness." I still remember leaving the cinema subsequent to the first session I saw of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Little did I know that the screening I attended would cause a never-ending obsession with the epic trilogy. Instantly I was completely hooked, and the cliff-hanger at the end of the first film made my anticipation even higher for the second. Alas, 12 months later Peter Jackson and his talented creative team reeled out the second instalment for which I waited with baited breath. Just like the first film, I remember booking tickets in advance and heading to a screening on Boxing Day of 2002: exactly one year since I initially saw the first film. Just like its predecessor, I absolutely l...Read more

Posted : 2 years ago at Nov 16 5:23

I think this film is definitely more entertaining than the last and I had the benefit (if you can call it that) of seeing it at the cinema (twice!), which helped for the epic battle scenes. Can anybody really say they were interested in anything except for those battles?

The Helms Deep seige was extremely artful, it must have been difficult to choreograph something so grand, but again I was completely disinterested with the rest of the film. Frodo and Samwise's segments bored me to death. Some of my LOTR book loving buddies were a bit upset about the deviation from the texts at times (like when the Elves show up to Helms Deep) and I guess I can't blame them. Why not give the humans tonnes of archers instead of writing in your own lie!?

Rating : 4/10

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Sep 14 3:11

In my opinion the best of the Lord of the Rings series of movies, i love and i will always love all of the movies.. Oh and it has amazing actors aswell =D

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 3 years, 1 month ago at Oct 4 17:05

The Two Towers is the second part of Peter Jackson's trilogy based on JRR Tolkien's epic fantasy masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring has just been broken and our heroes are now all heading in different directions, all following their own paths. Merry and Pippin have just been captured by a horde of Saruman's foul Huruk-Haï who, following the sorcerer's orders, are taking them to his tower of Isengard, and Aragorn the Heir of Gondor, Legolas the Elf and Gimli the Dwarf are running to their rescue across the plains of Rohan, land of the Rohirim horsemasters. Taking the advantage of a clash between the orcs and a band of Rohirim, the hobbits manage to escape into Fangorn, the old forest, home of the legendary Ents. There they'll meet an old acquaintance. Me...Read more

Rating : 10/10