the trilogy continues on and does let you down

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2003)

The way it started was very effective in my opinion. To have the scene of where Gandalf the Grey falls in Kazad Dum and the words he says to the Balrog gets louder and louder while we are looking at the mountains, and then becomes the loudest when we are in Kazad Dum. Then we actually see Gandalf fall, and bam! We are with Frodo and he has had a dream about how Gandalf fell. That was done beautifully.
Regarding the two hobbits, I think it was done effectively how we see that they cannot go to Mordor without Gollum. The scenes we Gollum were excellent! I loved it how we would see the two sides of Gollum, and how we would converse with his two selves. The defeat of 'bad Gollum' and the return of 'bad Gollum' in the movie was excellent.
Back to the three companions, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli and them running after the Orcs who have taken Pippin and Merry. Gimli stole the show most of the time. I adored him so much, more than part one in this movie. I loved how the men of Rohan stop them and Eomer says to Gimli what is you name and he says tell me yours first, then Eomer goes I will have you killed or something along those lines, and our favourite elf goes `you will die before you axe falls', I was cheering. I loved that part in the book and I am so glad it was in the movie.
The actor Karl Urban, who played Eomer nailed his character. I kept on thinking to myself when he had left the Kingdom of Rohan, we will see him, we will see him, but we only see him at the end with Gandalf. And that part I was going to jump and scream `YAHOO!' He gave his character so much life, integrity, strength and charm that I like the character of Eomer even more than I did before. I was a bit disappointed not to have seen more of Eomer, but I guess in number three we will see more of him. The woman who plays lady Ewoyn was good, and I liked her.
Okay king Theoden, he was good, but not the way I imagined. The way he came back to life after Gandalf drove Saruman out of him, and then we see Saruman fall back was good.
Now for the best part, the battle for helms deep. I was gripping my hands to my seats, then I'd be covering my mouth in terror and then I would be clapping when they'd have a minor victory. I loved how Legolas used the shield armour and did that surf boarding movement and shoot with his arrow at the orcs. I could not help it, I went `yeah!' and then I clapped, the whole cinema soon followed my lead. Gimli was so great in the battle of helms deep. He was the comic relief, also a tough warrior. Every scene that our dwarf was in, made the scene that much better.
Did anyone think there was a bit too much Aragorn in this film? Why so much kissing with him and Arwen?
Hugo Weaving is one of the best actors of our time. He is Lord Elrond. I really loved the scene with Galadrial and how she is talking to Elrond and she is telling him of the battle that men are facing, and how the Elves are leaving and we hear her speak while the men are getting ready for war. The parts of when galadrial, sam would be talking to another character and the scenes would be on where the different people were, was good in the sense that it kept on reassuring the audience that all, no mater where they were and who they were with were going through the same thing and kept the story moving along.
When the Elves go to fight alongside the men [I was soooooo happy, I was clapping again] got me all excited, I was like this is it, this is what the movie has been building for. Again I will say the battle of helms deep was done to perfection. It was like I was there and I was going to fight, I felt the terror and the excitement all at once. I was upset when Halder died. I was shocked and heartbroken.
The ents! I really liked them. Merry and Pippin again fulfilled their roles beautiful. The ents scenes were a treat to watch. The battle of Isengard was great with the ents. Faramir was more sinister in this film, but very courage's at the end. I can't wait to see the scenes with Faramir and his father, because as we now know he has forfeited his life to let the hobbits go.
Now know that all who have read the books say that the ending was cut out, with Sheolob, Pippin finding the ball, Gandalf knocking on the door and so on. Yet remember folks that out of all three books, the third one is the shortest and the end parts are made of appendices entirely. I thought the ending with Gollum leaving everyone in suspicion of this 'she' that he is taking them too was good.
I stayed up last night thinking, I loved the two towers, so why is there some people who did not, and came up with these theories of why people may have been disappointed in this film, and preferred number one more.
1. The fellowship broke. I know you would all think, duh that's what happened in number one, but I think people did not understand what it would do in number two. They were all in different areas, meeting different characters battling different things. So the audience had to concentrate on the different scenes and what people were doing. 2. The movie suffers from being the middle of the trilogy. My sister said that she needed closure. People may be sitting there going, we started with frodo going to mordor, and he is still going to mordor. 3. New characters to take in 4. it was less emotional than number.