It had to be good, right ?

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2002)

First of all, i will just point out that YES i have read the book, and yes the book is GREAT !
Me and some friends started out at 8'oclock with Lord Of The Rings: The Felleowship Of The Ring just to be prepared, Fellowship is getting better and better each time...just fantastic... Well now for my opinion on Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers.
After the commercials ended a silence broke out in the theater that i would never had imagined. When the text "New Line Cinema" appeared on the screen in the pale blue as we know it. I had goosebumbs all over and when "Lord Of The Rings" faded on to the screen a rush of cheering went through the theatre. Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers had begun, what a release that was.
We start out with a speed and have no resumé of what happened in FoTR. I like that. We are dealing with a 9 hour long movie here and not three movies as someone maybe thinking and now we have 2/3 of the story. There is no beginning and no end to this movie, though in the end Peter Jackson tries to make one. With mixed success i would say. The last 30 min. of the movie deviates a lot from the books, thats a shame, but in my opinion it doesn't make it a less enjoyeable movie.
Now for Gollum or his other self, rightfully, called Sméagol. I think the way Peter Jackson tells Gollums story is fantastic and i get the same feeling as when i read the book. The struggle Gollum is undergoing in his mind is so dark and we see immediately the same problem groing i Frodo who is drifting further and further away from being the hobbit we first met in the shire.
Well i have to end sometime, but i can't point out enough how important it is to see Fellowship before The Two Towers, if you don't have the opportunity to see it on the big screen, the rent the Extended Edition on DVD or VHS, or buy it for pitty sake it's great !
The Two Towers is a great and much more dark movie the Fellowship, we are no longer in the shire.... I dare give it 10/10
GO SEE IT !