Filmwank: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - Peter Jackson (2002, in theatre)
More than a movie, this was for us an Experience; the details of the experience will appear on Un Bon Vin Blanc. Okay, bottom line: it's really good. The Two Towers easily beats the first installment, The Fellowship Of The Ring, in the excitement and action category. On the down side, it stumbles a little bit plotwise in some of its departures from the book (which, to be honest, I haven't yet finished); the Merry/Pippin story thread suffers, with a little too much time given to the Rohan/Helm's Deep arc, and Elijah Wood's Frodo doesn't get to show as much depth and range as in the first film; he just looks a little more goth in each successive scene. The effects are excellent, stunning in spots: I was apprehensive about how the CG Gollum was going to work out; he gets a lot of screen time. His face isn't quite as "right" as, say, that of Yoda in Episode 2 (a bit too "clean", and does every single character in this movie have to have huge blue eyes?), but Yoda's animators didn't even have to face the challenge of showing a scrawny, mostly naked humanoid, crawling and leaping and generally acting like a freak for something like an hour of screen time. Gollum's body — his computer generated skeleton and musculature — is phenomenally real. In some scenes he doesn't seem to interact with his environment correctly (grabbing a tree branch which doesn't flex a millimeter nor shed a speck of dust or bark under his hand, a la the raptors from Jurassic Park) but in others the integration is perfect — one of his scrambles through a shallow creek left my jaw hanging. The Big CG Battle Scenes are impressive as hell; while there are tactical idiocies to be ridiculed, they're huge improvements on those of Verhoeven and Lucas, and the architectural background for the battles is also much more visually exciting. Yeah, sure, the movie has flaws, there's no way around it, but it's exciting and fun, and just like the first one, you're ready to sit through another three hours as soon as it's over. Damn you, Peter Jackson! Damn you to hell!
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why don't they ever show legolas sitting down,sleeping,drinking,eating,etc.

Posted by: jessy on January 18, 2004 04:28 PM

Hello my name is Felix and I am a big fan of The Lord of the Ring. In fact I saw all of them about four times when they came to theaters. Plus I have the first two parts on DVD. But I was just wondering, HOW COME THERE WERE NO BLACK PEOPLE IN THE MOVIE? There were a Wizards, Elves, Dwarf, Hobbits (all white), Phantoms, Men (all white) and Orces. There was a world of men, without color people, how come?

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