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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Nimrod Pimding</b> <br /><small>Member # 205</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,0,11,21,0,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 11, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:00 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> TTT, that is!<br /><br /><br />Saw the Two Towers finally, 10pm, Jan 11th, row 6 of 30, center seats, on Stockholm's largest cinema. Just me and my bro.<br /><br />The absolute first thing I had longed for was how they were going to finish the Gandalf/Balrog fight.<br />The falling was good and the cavernous, gigantic underground pool even better.<br />Though I had hoped to see them swim under the earth a bit, the Balrog's fire quenched,<br />it now being a thing of foul slime and coal.<br />It being a <i>maiar</i> in itself, I had hoped to've seen some nasty firespells and stuff from a servant of Morgoth,<br />not this orangutang rage and moaning.<br />And Gandalf should've gotten a bit more singed, IMO. :-)<br /><br />I sure as hell hope the fight will be lengthened in the SE-DVD (if there will be such a thing),<br />the mighty Balrog should get its recognition. I won't count on it, though.<br /><br />Gimli got a few more redeeming scenes, not counting the burping,<br />falling from a horse and the dwarf-tossing. He did know all the cords on them axes, yes siree.<br /><br />Legolas, what can I say? Borderline Ninja-demon, hooah!<br />'Twas good to see he also did have an opinion and cared to voice it during the siege of Helm's Deep,<br />I think many of us Sci-fi enthusiasts have a habit of confusing elves with the rigid Vulcans...from time to time.<br /><br />�om�r, Th�oden and �owyn were good each in their own right,<br />�owyn had really gotten her sword-moves down and she looked prettier than I glimpsed in the trailers.<br />Karl Urban was very fitting as �om�r, and who else but Brad Dourif could deliver such quality filth as Grima, eh?<br />Question, was it implied that Grima Wormtongue <i>killed</i> Th�odred (or hastened his departure) during the night?<br />Or was he just trying to get close to �owyn with feigned sympathy?<br /><br />The Ents, very imposing indeed. When they started hurling those boulders I almost hyperventilated.<br />I had hoped to see Merry and Pippin drinking that famous Ent-draught and getting revitalized and buffed up,<br />they shouldn't overlook that now that they even got Merry to mention the fabled rejuvenating properties of the Fangorn water...<br /><br />The winged Nazg�l-beasts were clearly molded from John Howe's interpretations, not like Pterodactyls at all, which I feared.<br /><br />The scene at the gates of Mordor, with the approaching legions of Easterlings, was like a photocopy of Alan Lee's painting.<br />I'm so glad they managed to get Lee and Howe onboard, I read the entire 1400-page LOTR-edition (with Alan Lee's illustrations)<br />just one month before "The Fellowship" premiered, so I related extremely well to the movie in that regard.<br />First time ever where my getting the flu felt convenient... :-)<br /><br /><br />The development scenes with Aragorn and Arwen struck me very deep,<br />for a number of reasons I will divulge in another thread shortly.<br /><br /><br />Gollum/Sm�agol was very good, best CGI-character ever IMO and Serkis' voicework was very convincing.<br />I really felt pity for the creature and almost got mad when people in the cinema laughed at him at every opportunity,<br />even when there was no joke and he was being genuinly miserable.<br />The mob has been getting too comfy with Dobby and Jar-Jar, methinks...<br /><br /><br /><i><b>Grudges/nitpicks</b></i><br /><br /><br />- The underused Balrog for one, but hopefully the SE can take care of that.<br /><br />- The postponed (again) reforging of Nars�l into And�r�l. It should've been taken care of in Rivendell already,<br />do you think they felt it would interfere with the Aragorn/Boromir conflict at the time?<br /><br />- The orc-dispute between Grishnakh and Ugl�k.<br />A bit rushed, wasn't it? Did they even mention their names??<br /><br />- The postponed (cut?) Sm�agol/D�agol flashback story, showing the good ol' days...<br />Will they put it in "Return of the King" or the TTT SE?<br /><br />- The snuck-in Galadriel-dialogue in the middle, where did she come from all of a sudden?<br /><br />- Elrond's venomous monologue about Arwen's terrible fate (as he sees it),<br />I do not remember that even being an issue in the book. And regardless, wasn't he a bit too mean? <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>AndrewR</b> <br /><small>Member # 44</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,0,12,2,19,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 12, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:19 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> He loves his daughter and doesn't want to loose her forever. He already had his wife leave him prematurely to head over the sea a few thousands of years earlier. <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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