Comments on The Two Towers movie - page 2

Sue Lupsa, San Jose, California, USA

I loved it. I thought that it was wonderfully done.

lisa, birmingham, west midlands

this movie just like the first one was brilliantly put together. however they did miss stuff out which i would have liked to have seen, but over all i think the books are great the movies outstanding and the characters to be unmissable. i can't wait for the third one

Richard Baggins, Hobbiton, The Shire

Comment: It is self-evident that books are not movies. Why does that bother people so much? The Two Towers is simply a visual companion to the original text. It's a rather stunning one too. Let it go at that.

Mathew McGuigan,: Blinheim, Ontario, Canada

I thought that the movie was spectacular and would recomend it to any one

Jason, Rushville, USA

IT was a good movie but not entirly. Peter Jackson saying that the two towers are Isenguard and Barad Dur was horrible. In the end of the Fellowship of the ring it clearly says that they are Orthanc and Minus Morgal.

Jason, Haywards Heath, UK

Is it the book-No

Is it a great film-Yes!

I enjoyed some plot changes and hated others. I suppose at the end of the day, the question is whether it would be possible to produce a more faithful version of the film within the 'hollywood' system of film making and I suspect the answer is 'No'.

Karin Heroux, Johannesburg, South Africa

The first time I saw The Two Towers I was overwhelmed with a sheer sense of disappointment! It totally veered from the book and some cuts were done a bit abruptly. The characters that I most admired were turned into weaklings and make none of the impact I hoped that they would. It was like knowing a person and finding out he had clay feet....

However, I went to see it a second time - this time with an open mind, forgoing the fact that a book exists and that I had my own opinions about some characters. This time it was the brilliant movie I hoped it would be. I was smitten, even if still disappointed in the weakling that Faramir and even Treabeard had become. I cannot wait for the video to come out and I can only hope that this year will fly as the past one did so that I can find out what the 3rd movie will hold.

Robert Romanelli, Santa Barbara, California, USA

It was even more exciting than the first movie. Peter Jackson should get an Academy Award for Best Director. I feel that Jackson did the best he could to retain the rich detail and depth of The Lord of the Rings, in spite of the fact that a film constrains you to a limited amount of time. The book does not limit the reader but a film must because you simply cannot keep an audience in a theater for 25 hours. So, what Peter Jackson accomplised in less than three hours is nothing short of a movie miracle. Awesome production. Mesmerizing. I was thrilled with it. And I've read the Lord of the Rings at least 35 times in the past 30 years.

Martha Kneib, Florissant, MO, USA

Two Towers was fantastic. As a friend of a friend said, Peter Jackson has taken was is "basically an unfilmable book and turned it into a spectacular film."

I think what is important to remember for those who are upset at any deviation from the books is that storytelling by film and by book are very different. When Jackson departs from the book, I ask myself -- why? Is it simply impossible to get the story across visually by slavishly following the text at this point?

For example, I love the scene where Elrond paints a dreary future for Arwen. Not in the book, but it a) shows the audience the agony Arwen feels at the terrible choice she has to make, and b) also shows the closeness between Arwen and her father (as Tolkien said, she loved her father dearly). Visually, the scene gets across a lot without taking up much of the 3 hours Jackson has available. The stories of Elrond, Arwen, and Aragorn are scattered throughout the book and appendices and Jackson manages to put them into one scene that really gets the essential part of their intertwined stories across to the audience.

There is no way to film a book. But there is a way to turn a book into a movie by respecting the source material but at the same time not being enslaved by it. I think Jackson has done an excellent job

Kannan Puthuval, Naperville, USA

I had heard a comment by director Peter Jackson regarding the making of The Lord of The Rings and faithfulness to the Book. He said something along the lines of, Yeah, we got a little out of line there, which unfortunately made a lot of sense after I saw The Two Towers recently. I was disappointed, but still rather engaged in the story that Jackson told. Therefore I would suggest to anyone feeling tortured by the blasphemy committed, to be glad at least that Jackson has made some gorgeous, enchanting films out of Tolkien's masterpiece, glad that he has made films that can be enjoyed despite their infidelity to their superior source.

Steve Craddock, Newcastle, England

As alover of all tolkiens works especially the lord of the rings ienjoyed the first film and could even put up with theloss of Tom Bombadil and the swopping of Glorfindel for Arwen in the chase scene to the fords of Bruinen.

But could only look on in disgust at the destruction of the story in the Two towers.No wonder the remaining Tolkien family members would have nothing to do with this film.