Two Towers one of the best movies I've seen.
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The war at helms Deep and the emotions shown by the CG Gollum/Smeagol was amazing, worth every cent. I had to wait for almost 1 1/2 hrs to get in the theatre.:omg: I just can't wait for the DVD.:) Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
Did the theatre have DTS? When I lived in California most theatres were equiped with DTS. In VA that is impossible to find. And since I know how good a DTS equiped theatres sound I hate seeing cool movies in regular theatres. Sigh!!!!!
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Did the theatre have DTS? When I lived in California most theatres were equiped with DTS. In VA that is impossible to find. And since I know how good a DTS equiped theatres sound I hate seeing cool movies in regular theatres. Sigh!!!!!
Ranjan Banerji wrote: Did the theatre have DTS? Yeah it was DTS, and sounded great. Ranjan Banerji wrote: In VA that is impossible to find. really ?:confused: Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
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The war at helms Deep and the emotions shown by the CG Gollum/Smeagol was amazing, worth every cent. I had to wait for almost 1 1/2 hrs to get in the theatre.:omg: I just can't wait for the DVD.:) Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
I was a little disappointed. It did not follow the book as closely as the first movie did. A LOT of what happened in the movie was fabricated..and that kinda took away from my overall enjoyment. -dork ps: also annoying : too many damn closeups! Back the camera up, Peter!
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The war at helms Deep and the emotions shown by the CG Gollum/Smeagol was amazing, worth every cent. I had to wait for almost 1 1/2 hrs to get in the theatre.:omg: I just can't wait for the DVD.:) Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
Ugh. From what I've seen of the previews, it butchers the book. I was really disgusted with "The Fellowship Of The Ring". It completely mutilated the characters, the mood that Tolkien slowly builds, everything. Special effects be damned. Just my opinion though. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Ranjan Banerji wrote: Did the theatre have DTS? Yeah it was DTS, and sounded great. Ranjan Banerji wrote: In VA that is impossible to find. really ?:confused: Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
Ranjeet Chakraborty wrote: Ranjan Banerji wrote: In VA that is impossible to find. really ? Yup. Just found one theatre that has it. And only for one screen. So you have to be lucky and make of course make sure that when you buy your tickets its for that screening. Somehow even the new theatres do not have it. :-(
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I was a little disappointed. It did not follow the book as closely as the first movie did. A LOT of what happened in the movie was fabricated..and that kinda took away from my overall enjoyment. -dork ps: also annoying : too many damn closeups! Back the camera up, Peter!
dorkshoe wrote: It did not follow the book as closely as the first movie did. the first one followed the book??????? must be a different book to the one i read ... apart from hobbits and afew other characters there was no similarity between movie #1 and the book that i could see :omg:
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The war at helms Deep and the emotions shown by the CG Gollum/Smeagol was amazing, worth every cent. I had to wait for almost 1 1/2 hrs to get in the theatre.:omg: I just can't wait for the DVD.:) Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
I agree totally. Ranjeet Chakraborty wrote: emotions shown by the CG Gollum/Smeagol was amazing His dual-personality moments had the cinema I was in in hysterics. Ranjeet Chakraborty wrote: wait for almost 1 1/2 hrs to get in the theatre We just walked in...... IMHO the only bad point about it was that it was straddling two halves of the story. FOTR had the beginning, and ROTK has the end. Two Towers simply has some cool battles etc... but little in the way of developing story.
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Ugh. From what I've seen of the previews, it butchers the book. I was really disgusted with "The Fellowship Of The Ring". It completely mutilated the characters, the mood that Tolkien slowly builds, everything. Special effects be damned. Just my opinion though. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Every line of code is a liability - Taka MuraokaActually, I was please with the movie and I love the books. There is only so much you can do in a movie. To have reproduced The Fellowship as closely as possible, it would have turned into a 5-6 hour film that only the most die hard fans (me included) would sit through. Yeah, there was something I didn't like, I missed the Barrow Downs and the stay at Farmer Maggots and Tom Bombadil. And the Love story with Aragorn is an addition that could have been left out. But other than that, it was a good film. Much more faithful to the book than other movies have been. Jason Gerard "This almost never matters, except quite often."
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dorkshoe wrote: It did not follow the book as closely as the first movie did. the first one followed the book??????? must be a different book to the one i read ... apart from hobbits and afew other characters there was no similarity between movie #1 and the book that i could see :omg:
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biz stuff about meWhat??!?! You're on crack. Sure, it didn't follow everything closely..Thats impossible! But, the general storyline was almost dead on (except a few added love scenes that could really be implied from the book) and a few other small things. But overall, the movie followed the book very well. EVERYONE I have talked to who read the book believes that. The second book, however, just throws crazy stuff out there. Frodo and Sam in Osgoliath?? HUH!? That never happened! Man, you are on crack. You should go read the series again...or stick to illustrated kids books.... -dork
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dorkshoe wrote: It did not follow the book as closely as the first movie did. the first one followed the book??????? must be a different book to the one i read ... apart from hobbits and afew other characters there was no similarity between movie #1 and the book that i could see :omg:
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biz stuff about melauren wrote: the first one followed the book??????? Yeah better than most book -> movie conversions. I do think that they left out some of the cooler things in the bool like Tom Bombadil, and they took a few liberties in adding in a non-existent love story between Strider and the Elf that Liv Tyler plays. Other than that I was very impressed.
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Actually, I was please with the movie and I love the books. There is only so much you can do in a movie. To have reproduced The Fellowship as closely as possible, it would have turned into a 5-6 hour film that only the most die hard fans (me included) would sit through. Yeah, there was something I didn't like, I missed the Barrow Downs and the stay at Farmer Maggots and Tom Bombadil. And the Love story with Aragorn is an addition that could have been left out. But other than that, it was a good film. Much more faithful to the book than other movies have been. Jason Gerard "This almost never matters, except quite often."
Jason Gerard wrote: it would have turned into a 5-6 hour film that only the most die hard fans (me included) would sit through. yeah, I would too. :) I am more biased towards giving credit to the movie makers, its such a mammoth task bringing such a story to the big screen, that there are bound to be mistakes/additions that arent a part of the original. I guess Peter Jackson is trying to make it appeal to a lot more audience and so he added the love story element, which I wasn't that keen on watching. So even though it wasn't pure Tolkein, it was surely not disapointing, I think I loved it, The audience were clapping :-D when Legolas swinged beautifully on the horse during ambush of warg riding orcs. Just my opinion. :rolleyes: Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
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The war at helms Deep and the emotions shown by the CG Gollum/Smeagol was amazing, worth every cent. I had to wait for almost 1 1/2 hrs to get in the theatre.:omg: I just can't wait for the DVD.:) Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
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I was a little disappointed. It did not follow the book as closely as the first movie did. A LOT of what happened in the movie was fabricated..and that kinda took away from my overall enjoyment. -dork ps: also annoying : too many damn closeups! Back the camera up, Peter!
dorkshoe wrote: A LOT of what happened in the movie was fabricated This statement just cracked me up. I mean, you are aware this is a movie.
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What??!?! You're on crack. Sure, it didn't follow everything closely..Thats impossible! But, the general storyline was almost dead on (except a few added love scenes that could really be implied from the book) and a few other small things. But overall, the movie followed the book very well. EVERYONE I have talked to who read the book believes that. The second book, however, just throws crazy stuff out there. Frodo and Sam in Osgoliath?? HUH!? That never happened! Man, you are on crack. You should go read the series again...or stick to illustrated kids books.... -dork
errrr like the journey from hobbit town to the prancing pony like tom bombadil like the meeting at elronds house like glorfindel being a chik etc etc etc maybe u should lay off the drugs a bit urself or maybe u and ur friends should learn to read? ;P
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errrr like the journey from hobbit town to the prancing pony like tom bombadil like the meeting at elronds house like glorfindel being a chik etc etc etc maybe u should lay off the drugs a bit urself or maybe u and ur friends should learn to read? ;P
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biz stuff about meI think the problem with converting an epic novel like this one is that Tolkien created a world and an entire history for this world. I think that they tried to pick out all of the important stuff in order to make the story work as a whole and they left out the stuff that was not crucial. You are right there was a lot that had happened on the way to the prancing pony. Tom Bombadil was my favorite part of the book besides the Battle in the mines. lauren wrote: like glorfindel being a chik Were you a little upset that they made Glorfindel a chik? What it seemed to me was that they wanted to tell the story about one of those epic poems that the hobbits would always tell where the lady elf fell in love with the human. And that was happening between Liv Tyler and Vigo Mortenson. That is my guess as to where that came from.
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The war at helms Deep and the emotions shown by the CG Gollum/Smeagol was amazing, worth every cent. I had to wait for almost 1 1/2 hrs to get in the theatre.:omg: I just can't wait for the DVD.:) Carved upon my stone, My body lies but still I roam...
I have got my tickets and I will be going tonight:) I am looking forward to it!
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