What did you think of PJ's Two Towers

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Share your comments - the good, the bad, the ugly about Peter Jackson's The Two Towers movie.

[Kitoky]

I think it really good, especially Helm's Deep. That was just really chilling.

But the only bad thing is that the way it was protrayed in the movie was that they singled out the specific two towers, Barad-dur and Orthanc, which in the books Tolkien never specified which two towers.

[Briony]

I really liked it.
It wasn't like the book, but I think it made a very believable story of it's own. I enjoyed Helms Deep, and I thought the costumes and the swordplay were absolutely grand!

[Isengard]

I thought it very well done! Even if it didn't follow the book completely, there was nothing not to like about it! ;D

[AragornII]

i thought it great - however the elves arriving at helms deep dismayed me at the cinema - and still bugs me now (and especially as they kill haldir - even though his death is done quite well). they say they did it 1) to up the tension and 2 )to honour the fact that in the book the elves fight their own battles near lorien etc - now a) i don't think they really need it to up the tension, and b)why didn't they just show the elves fighting their own battles? - didn't have to be anything big just a quick glimpse perhaps? - i think one of the reasons they did it was just to have someone die as well (as PJ /Fran say TT sufferd from a lack of heroes dying)

it also kind of bugged me that haldir says "i bring word from elrond of rivendell" - as if elrond had sent them - but surely they were from lorien? would elrond command a load of lorien elves to go and fight?

(still i must be thankful they didn't leave arwen in helms deep - sheez - how could they ever think that?)

other than that i really enjoyed it - i was a bit dismayed that faramir was a bit different in the book, and that shelob wasn't in it - but listening to PJ's reasons for this i can understand it and accept it as something which helped the story onto the screen.

i also cen't help feeling a bit regretful that they did them all so quick - and i think TT suffered most out of the 3 films due to this - on the one hand it was great to have them come out each christmas, and no doubt helped them with budget shooting all in one go - but one the other hand i can't help feeling for something as great as lord of the rings they should have been allowed a bit more time to perfect story lines and special effects - still they did a very, very good job of it - but imagine what it would have been like if they'd had a whole extra year in between each film (extra 3 years in total)

[iwulff]

First of all the movies already were on film, all three of them before the movies came in cinema. They *only* had to make a lot of the special effects and ofcourse make the movie flow.

Faramir was another thing i truly hated, they totally changed it's character. Then we have Shelob ofcourse, why not put him in the second movie??? I don't get the reason why . I also thougth that Anduril or Narsil didn't got any credit, because he wasn't in the movie , the sword is kind of a character to me. And another thing was Aragorn slipping of this cliff, i mean those wargs didn't had anything to do their, and i think that if they had cut that piece out and shelob in it would have been better. I think that the ents really were well done, i ecpeccially liked the scene with this tree that is on fire, and jumps sort of into the water at the siege of Orthanc, made me laugh ;D . Ofcourse the meeting with Frodo and the Nazgul and stuff in Osgiliath i mean that part was really ridiculous. Sauron knew that someone perhaps even a descendant of the throne of Gondor was at the battle of helmsdeep, he thought that he must have had the ring of power. In book3 aragorn would use the palantir to make sure Sauron had only eye for Aragorn and not for Frodo. Let's talk about the things that i liked of the TT movie, i liked the beginning where Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas were trying to hunt down the orcs that had captured Merry and Pippin, and finally came in touch with a group of Rohan horse riders with eomer as their leader. I liked the meeting sort of with Fangorn the ent or Treebeard, but he wasn't so mad at pip and merry in the beginning, because he didn't knew them yet, because if they were orcs then he would have stepped right onto them. ;D I enjoyed the battles of Helms deep and the funny jokes of Gimli ofcouse, he was really good in movie 1 and he hold his ground in TT. There were more soldiers with Theoden, and although things were almost hopeless they didn't use children of 8-10 as soldiers, as we could seen in the movie. It was just to add more drama into the movie, and i hated it. I'm sure that PJ wanted to add some more elf in the movie because it would enjoy people that were seeing the movie, but i didn't enjoyed it as much. Also the moment that Gandalf came with this army was cool to see, it was a moment that all evil would be detroyed, they should have added the moment, that Aragorn would have said against the ocrs that no one would survive this day and all that stuff... I really liked Gollum in TT but he was to much in ROTK as if PJ wanted to make the movie better while putting in more of Gollum. But that's about the third movie and not about TT. I agree on Haldir, the elven soldiers, and i bring word from Elrond from Rivendell. I thougth it sort was a beautiful moment, if i didn't had read the books before. But i also think that, that part was misplaced for fans of the books, because there never would have been a alliance again of men and elves like the one before the walls of Mordor, although we had this battle of the 5 armies in the hobbit, hope to see that part in the hobbit film. ;D I think i had all my major parts of my like and dislike for this movie