Watch Out Lovers of the Book

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2002)

Tonight I saw the Two Towers and was disappointed. Although the movie was visually stunning including the special effects of both Gollum and the Ents I was very disappointed at the plot changes that were in place. I can understand not putting something in because of its difficulty to film and other thing are needed to add to explain the film better completly changing the plot in points just to add action and cool special effects is unacceptable in my book.
Peter Jackson did not have to prove what he can do with special effects by adding a battle scene with orcs on wargs because he did an excelent job with Gollum and the Ents. There were times when I could have sworn that Gollum was a live actor. And he did not need to add more action scenes because the Battle of Helm Deep was more then most action movies have in the whole movie.
By adding these extra scenes he cut things from the book that I feel were very important in the story. We see Gollum being hurt by the rope that Froddo and Sam tied him up with but we do not know why. If you read the book you know that it is because the rope was made by elves and the purity of it burns the evil in Gollum. This does not really matter but later when you see Gollum tied up again with regular rope he is not screaming and kicking about and peacefully going about his buisness.
I guess what upset me the most is that they moved this movie from being one about a story and moved it to being more of an action film and saying that the story does not really matter. But then again what do I really know.