The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

I'm anxious to see it but I'll wait until the rush is over.Nothing worse than having a crappy seat at the theater..ever had to sit in the front row and look straight up

 

I'm so glad that theaters that are built today tend to address this problem and set the front row pretty far away from the screen, compared to what it used to be.

 

yes and it sucks. i had to do that with the jackass movie and between the shaky camera, a way too buttery pretzel, and being 3 feet away from the screen, i was damn close to throwing up a couple times.

back on topic, i got 4 tickets to the 11:00 pm showing at AMC tonight. can't wait.

 

Well just got back from the midnight screening (1 of 3 at the Edwards near me) and I gotta say that was an amazing, amazing movie. Surprisingly Gollum was a sympathetic figure (to me at least, I've got a soft spot for the bald spaz I guess) and Helm's Deep was incredible. I guess I'm going to have to go ahead and get the books becuase waiting for another year to see how everything finishes up seems like a long, long time right now.

Shoot even the trailers before the show were great.

 

I just got back from the midnight show. Amazing movie!

 

i kinda liked gollum in the books, atleast i felt sorry for him.
how where the Ents? and did treabeard make a slow impression, like he does everything verry slow? does anybdoy know the song they play during the trailer what it is? it is not on the soundtracks. and i like it alot

 

Just got back. Great, great great movie. Loved pretty much all of it, even the stuff they made up that wasn't in the book. The only thing that I would have done differently is the scene where Gollum is kind of debating with himself. I would have made it much less comical than it was, as I feel it is a pretty dramatic and serious "exchange."

 

The Ents looked and acted great. They did focus a bit on the tendency of the Ents to do things slowly, although given Peter Jackson's contraints placed by New Line Cinema, I can see why he didn't focus on that for too very long.

The song you are speaking of was originally (I believe) from the soundtrack of Requiem For A Dream. It was not in the movie.

 

Oh wow, this movie must rule if Nomar hates it. No offence Nomar, it's just that your taste in, oh, just about *everything* is diametrically opposed to mine.

This 'fat schmuck', by the way, is well on the way to becoming one of our national heroes, so tread lightly.

Guy Ritchie, though. Bwahahahaha! That's a good one...

 

thanks Raven. i really love that song. How did you like faramir? Was he a wise and friendly man, i know he wasn't to friendly to frodo but appart from that? what kind of impression?

 

GUY RITCHIE Nomar? Geez do you REALLY want Vinnie Jones running around Middle Earth threatening to blow people away with his Sting .50?

Anyway, yes the Gollum scene was seemingly played for laughs which I don't understand, but it still effectively got over the 2 halves of Gollum's character. Faramir wasn't really in the movie all that much. He started off as a frustrated character trying to find his way out of an impossible situation. Then he saw the ring as his salvation. However, he (unlike Boromir) saw what the ring does to the ring bearer, and realized that the power the ring gives the wearer isn't worth the price that must be payed.

And although I never read the books (I'll have to change that I suppose) I don't think someone like Christopher Lee (who actually KNEW Tolkein well and reads the books every year) would be this positive if he felt that the story was butchered into a mockery of the books. Jackson had to make movies that made the STUDIO happy too. This meant some compromises probably had to be made.

 

I haven't seen it yet and I have yet to get very far into the books, but I imagine certain changes just had to be made. Now, looking at the movie for what it is, a movie, how was it? My guess is that it was pretty damn good movie.

 

Perhaps you should give Harry Potter a shot...I hear they were pretty faithful to the books.

 

I've got a ticket to the 4:30 show. I'm so stoked. Here I sit at work while someone got me my ticket. I leave, I see the movie...YES!

My co-worker's husband has the day off. He bought tickets. He called my co-worker to say he'd bought them.

"You bought one for Michael, too, right?"

"Uh....I wasn't supposed to, was I?"

"Jeez, honey, I told you three times!"

So I sat here stewing in my juices for about an hour but the guy managed to procure me a ticket (he went back, realizing his mistake, and hooked me up). All is right in the world. I'll provide my geeked-out review tomorrow.

 

I am taking the whole company to the movies tomorrow at noon.

I wanted to go today, but could not buy enough tickets on Fandango to get everyone in.

I can not wait.

We are meeting at work at 7:00am to watch the extended Fellowship DVD, then going to see the movie at the theater.

The rest of the day will be devoted to playing BF1942, yep that is right, my employees and I are having a BLOW off day.

Move over Ferris Buehler, DaDakota is in town.



DaDakota

 

I thought the movie completely rocked, despite a few instances where everything looked like a Molly Hatchet album cover up there. Peter Jackson should be drafted to direct the last Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies. His technical mastery and pacing of such potentially clumsy material was simply awesome. He's the ultimate fanboy director...the battle scenes have all these gory details and images of delicious cruely that make your adrenelaine rush. I was also really touched by Frodo and Sam's relationship. For such an epic (and it *is* a David Lean sized epic), I really cared about the characters and laughed a lot (though, the dwarf comic relief stuff got a bit stale). This is a big, thundering movie that makes the current Hollywood crop of schlockmeisters seem almost quaint.

 

ahahahah what she said...couldnt agree more. i havnt seen it yet but based on nomars reaction this may very well be the greatest movie in the history of greatest movies...

 

Do you have any openings ???????

 

i take it you need me start working for you tomorrow as a video game tester and overall consultant. Just send me my plane ticket and ill see you at the airport tonight...

thanks again.