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New Trailer For The Two Towers
Drakkar writes "As most of you know, the new trailer for the Two Towers was online last night for AOL users, but the link was given on the official site, LordofTheRings.net. It's in real player format. A new trailer with higher quality will be up tonight, midnight ET.
This new piece of film is awesome. (the song at the end of the trailer isn't from the TTT soundtrack, it's from the movie Requiem for a Dream)" xTK-421x points to more links: "Now available is the new 3 minute trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Available here in MOV and here in RM. Reported first at Aint It Cool News."
Well, frankly, I didn't go see the first one in the theater either. (Hey, money's been very tight lately. There's not much I will pay to see right now.)
I did, however, watch it now that it's out on DVD. Honestly, it just didn't do much for me. Before I get slammed by people for saying that, let me qualify:
It was a very well put-together production. Perfectly good acting, special effects, and the whole nine yards. Like the book, there are great lessons taught in the film. (Certainly, the whole theme of "power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" runs throughout.)
I just generally dislike the "fantasy" genre, because we're forced to suspend all rational belief through the whole thing. Unlike sci-fi, where it's easy to say "Well, all of this simply happened on another planet we haven't discovered yet." - they have us believe that this world existed on *our own planet*, yet humans never realized it was there.
Somehow, this ruins some of the enjoyment for me, whether it's in book form or a movie. (It's sort of like the stereotypical "action movie" where the hero does so many unbelievable stunts that after 30 minutes, it makes the whole movie "cheesy" - no matter what else is good about it.)
I don't think you should ever ask the reader, or audience, to "swallow" excessive amounts of impossibility. Instead of insulting our intelligence, create a background for the tale that gives our minds a way to justify its existance.
Dragons and gargoyles are cool-looking creatures, and make good children's stories, but beyond that - you just need a little more "substance" to keep us believing in them.
Ummm. My life has been enriched for having read this comment. Thank you, moderators, for marking it as insightful. I don't know what I would have done had I not seen it.