Not what I hoped for, but fun none-the-less (Possible Spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (19 August 2003)

I was very disappointed to see the ending of this film. The Two Towers is my favorite book of all time because of this one chapter, the very last chapter in the book (The Choices of Master Samwise). Of course, this chapter didn't make it into the movie, which only makes me want to see The Return of the King all the more.
I have loved the trilogy ever since I first picked it up to find out what it was about. And seeing Peter Jackson's vision of it made me wish there wasn't copyright laws for some things. Of course, I enjoyed it, but the only problem was it didn't have everything I wanted to see (i.e. Tom Bombadil).

There are many things I LOVED about the movie, The Two Towers. For one, it took a step up with CGI animation. Gollum was incredible. I have never seen a CGI look more real. (To be honest, I think CGI looks so fake, I wished they would go bask to the day when creatures where made with puppets. They looked unbelievably real, compared to CGI.)
Now, no movie is perfect, and The Two Towers proves that. All movies do. The five chapters they didn't put in probably has a reason for it being that way, and I think I know why. The Return of the King is by far the shortest in the trilogy, so I think the production team decided that why cram everything into The Two Towers, when you could leave some out and put it in the next one. I mean, the movie is already long (some people might take it as far as unbearably long, but I have to say that I though it was short), so they didn't want people to get up and leave because they were bored (I'm talking about the mainstream audience), so they move some of the movie over to The Return of the King.
I can easily say that The Two Towers is one of my favorite movies of all time, but, like any other movie, it is flawed. Luckily, it's nowhere as flawed as The Hulk (I could barely sit through that movie, and it was much shorter that The Two Towers). I really think that the movie could have done better, but, then again, it could have done horribly worse....
As I wrap this up, I have to say that I absolutely enjoyed this movie from beginning to end. The Ent's looked pretty real, compared to other things. The battle of Helm's Deep wasn't as character-driven as the book was, but it was one awesome piece of film-making. The part at Osgiliath, where Frodo realizes without Sam, he would never have got near as far as they did, touched my heart. Especially, when Sam told Frodo that the hope that they had left was that there was still some good left in the world. I even liked when they talked about the story that was going to be told about themselves (which wasn't supposed to be included until the third one. Just pause for a moment and feel the irony in that). All in all, this was an enjoyable piece of film-making that everyone, and I mean everyone (except of the little kids, I mean, it can get as gory as a PG-13 movie can get) should see this movie. ****(out of four stars).