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December 22, 2002
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A buch of friends and I went to see The Two Towers last night. We pre-ordered tickets online a few days back, but it seems like the movie theaters are picking up bad habits from the airline industry and are over booking. Of the 11 tickets I ordered for the 10:15PM showing only three were good. We ended up exchanging them for the 11:15PM showing. I didn't get to bed until around 3 or so in the morning. Needless to say I'm really tired this morning.
The movie was a bit disapointing. I read The Lord of the Rings trilogy probably once a year, so I notice when the movie strays from the book. The Fellowship of the Ring movie strayed, but it was always in a way that made sense for it to do so. I didn't think that when the The Two Towers strayed from the book that it was in a way that made much sense. I also think the Ents were not given a large enough role. And Faramir seemed to not be nearly as noble as in the book.
The one big, overriding success was Gollum. Wow. He was perfect. The character of Gollum is a difficult one; you should both loath and pity him. He's a source of some amusement and of dread. They captured that perfectly. George Lucas should take notes: that is how a digital character should be done. Gollum made Jar Jar Binks look even lamer than he already did. The voice actor Andy Serkis was amazing.
Posted by ed at December 22, 2002 10:33 AM
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You couldn't wait to blog this opinion till AFTER I'd seen it??
Posted by: lysa at December 22, 2002 12:33 PM
From someone that didn't read the books...The movie was awesome, and I really liked it.. who cares what the book said...i'm also buzzed on a bottle of wine...but I really liked the movie, except when you could tell that Gandalf was holding "invisible" reins on his horse.
Posted by: vicki at December 22, 2002 9:20 PM