Comments on: The Two Towers http://log.reflectivesurface.com/2002/12/30/the-two-towers/ Still powered by a contradiction in terms Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ronaldo http://log.reflectivesurface.com/2002/12/30/the-two-towers/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Ronaldo Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:04:32 +0000 http://log.reflectivesurface.com/2002/12/30/the-two-towers/#comment-74 I agree with your points, and hope that the next movie is really better -- especially considering it will have to depict some of the events that should have been in this second movie. I agree with your points, and hope that the next movie is really better — especially considering it will have to depict some of the events that should have been in this second movie.

]]> By: Jeff http://log.reflectivesurface.com/2002/12/30/the-two-towers/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Jeff Sun, 09 Feb 2003 04:03:26 +0000 http://log.reflectivesurface.com/2002/12/30/the-two-towers/#comment-73 I agree with every point in your love/hate review and will add a couple of my own to the Hate side: * Merry and Pippin NOT drinking from the forest water that would cause their growth spurt. I kept waiting for it, it would have taken less than a minute to establish; didn't happen. * Sean Astin's bun-cringeing speech at the end. My son said it reminded him of the moralizing in an "ABC After-School Special." * The Elvish father-daughter conflict. Tolkien fans -- remember them, Peter? -- don't care if Hugo Weaving and Liv Tyler needed something to do in the movie. I've read in interviews that "Two Towers" was the movie Jackson took the most liberties with. Let's hope he redeems himself in the third installment. I agree with every point in your love/hate review and will add a couple of my own to the Hate side:
* Merry and Pippin NOT drinking from the forest water that would cause their growth spurt. I kept waiting for it, it would have taken less than a minute to establish; didn’t happen.
* Sean Astin’s bun-cringeing speech at the end. My son said it reminded him of the moralizing in an “ABC After-School Special.”
* The Elvish father-daughter conflict. Tolkien fans — remember them, Peter? — don’t care if Hugo Weaving and Liv Tyler needed something to do in the movie.

I’ve read in interviews that “Two Towers” was the movie Jackson took the most liberties with. Let’s hope he redeems himself in the third installment.

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