Good Movie, Bad Adaptation Of Book

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2002)

If you are a die hard fan of The Lord of The Rings novel, then most likely you will not be pleased with the adaption of The Two Towers into film. The movie story line left the novel story line for about half of the film. While this greatly displeased me that Peter Jackson would so obviously leave Tolkien's story line, I understand that the constraints of making such a massive epic story into a movie are quite hard to overcome. I mean come on, who of you out there would sit through a 4 or possibly 5 hour movie? This is how long each of the movies would have to of been if Peter Jackson had stayed with Tolkien's story line. As a movie, The Two Towers is awesome. There was only one scene in which I thought was truly unnecessary and that was the "dream" that Aragorn had with Arwen. Any other faults with the adaptation can be forgiven if you take in the fact that the movie is only 3 hours long and in the end Peter Jackson gives you "the big picture" version of The Two Towers.