Lord of the Rings, The - The Two Towers

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Synopsis: Sauron's forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman's army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron's troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.

Rating: PG-13

Run Time: 208 minutes

Director: Peter Jackson

Dvd Extra's: (4 Disk Extended Edition)
Disk 1 and 2: Audio Commentary: The Director and The Writers, The Design Team, The Production / Post Production, The Cast. Subtitles: English or Spanish

Disk 3: Introduction, J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-earth, From Book to Script: Finding The Story, Designing and Building Middle-earth, Gollum, Middle-earth Atlas, New Zealand as Middle-earth, Subtitles: English or Spanish. Disk 4: Introduction, Filming The Two Towers, Visual Effects, Editorial: Refining the Story, Music and Sound, The Battle for Helm's Deep is Over.

Hidden Features: (Extended Edition only)
On Disc 1, from the Main Menu access the 'Select A Scene' option. Go to the menu with the last 2 scenes on the disk in it (scene 29 & 30). Once highlighted press DOWN to reveal a "ring" at the bottom of the screen. Select it to reveal a clip of 'Gollum' accepting an award!

Nudity Factor: None

Of Note: Bernard Hill would spend up to nine hours in make-up to become the aged Theoden. He wore contact lenses to give his eyes the milky look that very old people can have, but it wasn't sufficiently successful so his eyes were later tinkered with digitally.

Recommendations: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

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Review by: Jason James Rating:

This film being the second of three once again raises the bar on epic films. It is everything I thought it should have been, especially with the extended edition DVD. Peter Jackson once again captures Tolkien’s world with perfection. He recreates middle-earth and you feel like you are actually there. I have watched this movie several times and every time I become riveted watching it. One thing that I have to mention, Hollywood is out of touch with its audiences. New Line is the only company with the insight to make these films and to make three movies. I guess the other companies must be sitting back and wondering why they didn’t take this project and make millions of dollars on it. If you did not like this movie, we have a very different tasted in movies.

Review by: Shooter For space saving reasons and to keep my fingers from cramping up I'm going to only write one review for these three movies as they are really one epic movie anyways and always meant to be that way.
I was chomping at the bit and waiting and waiting for Fellowship to come out. I was so excited that I went to see it on opening day and I almost never do that. Luckily I wasn't disappointed and as Jason said this film and series set the bar to which all other fantasy films will be judged. The biggest problem I had after watching this movies was waiting for the DVD to come out, and then waiting for the extended edition to come out and then waiting for "The Two Towers" Why are these movies so good? Because of the extensive back story that was already there for Peter Jackson to draw from. J.R.R. tolkien created a world with his books that is so detailed a director would have to work to screw it up. Just to give you an idea of the detail set forth in these books and movies Tolkien was a linguist among other things and even invented the languages that are used. That's right, Elven is a real language and Rohan has it's own language based on Old English; in fact, all of the languages in middle earth were created by Tolkien. Peter Jackson did a good job by staying as true to the books as possible and I've yet to meet a LOTR fan who didn't like both. The epic scale of these three movies, wonderful scenery, acting, and plot are second to one in my opinion. I especially liked Ian Mckellan as Gandalf. He played the part perfectly and as in the book was the glue that kept the fellowship together. These movies lacked the cheesiness that the fantasy genre is notable for and made it all believable, no matter how fantastic.
My only quarrel would be the ending of "Return of the King" I would have rather it been more true to the book but I think it would have been a 4 hour movie then.
My recommendation is to buy all three of the extended versions. Instead of the usual useless extra's and a few more minutes of footage some of the extended versions add 45 minutes or more to the movie and put in many more things from the book. the scenes are finished, not black and white or unrendered, and fit seamlessly into the movie. If you like fantasy at all you will love these movies.