Excellant film, but what happened to the real Two Towers

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2002)

After seeing the Fellowship of the Ring, I dcided that i could not wait a year to find out what happened next, so i decided to read the books (all three), from reading the TT i had expected the film to be even better than the first (and the third (Return of the King) to be better still). Unfortunatly, when i saw the film, i was disappointed that Tolkien's story was lost, many scenes were lost, many characters were portrayed differently such as Faramir and Gimli. Faramir was a likeable heroric man in the books, but portrayed as an enemy to Frodo and Sam in the film. Gimli has become the comic centre of the films, lacking his serous character in the books. Also,where in the book was Aragorn believed to be dead? The title of the film is the "Two Towers", in the book, the Ents overrun Isengard (as in the film, although not such a major part as it should have been) and the tower of Cirith Ungol where Sam finds Frodo locked up after their battle with Shelob, this tower is non existant in the film and the film does not deserve it's title as the Two Towers, more like "The One Tower that features at the end". I don't like to complain because I thought that the film itself was a masterpiece (one of the best films I have ever seen), with a super scene with Gollum talking to himself (may i add that I think gollum is the best CG character ever). The Ents were another masterpiece of the CGs and helped along with wonderfull acting from all involved (special credit to Andy Serkis for Gollum). Another high point was the music, I loved Howard Shore's score and it captured the world of Middle Earth perfectly again. Gollum's song is superb and makes you feel sorry for the creature, and the theme fo Rohan is also just wonderfull. Overall, this film is much darker than FOTR and ends in the superb battle of Helm's Deep. If this battle is anything to go by, then the battles in Return of the king are going to be aweinspiring. Congratulations for a super film, but a shame it's not quite the real Two Towers. For the film i give it 10/10, for a portrayal of Tolkien's Two Towers, just a 6/10. Sorry Peter.