There is a special hell reserved for Peter Jackson

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2002)

Oh, if only Peter Jackson had not done such a good job with The fellowship of the ring, I could almost forgive the way he has mangled the Two Towers. I drove arround town to three different movie theatres to find tickets to the Two Towers, and now I wish I had never seen it. My first problem is that he has added two battles in this movie that are not contained in the book, and ended the movie without even showing the two climatic scenes from the book. The Wargs were not in the book and should have been left out of the movie, because the Special Effects looked crappy. The battle at Osgilath may have seemed like a good way to end the movie, except for my second problem with the movie. Peter Jackson has totally ripped the heart out of two of the main characters. Fairimir has lost all his nobility, and Theoden has become craven. Fairimir would never have taken Frodo to Osgilath. The scene where Gandalf wrestles with the mind of Theoden is brilliant, but Theoden does somehow does not find his courage afterwards in the movie. As for leaving out the second confrontation between Saruman and Gandalf, that is the single greatest moment in the entire series. Too bad it didn't make the film. I felt ill by the end of the movie.