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Lord of the Rings: Two Towers Reviews Rolling In

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the are-we-there-yet-mommy dept.

flogger writes "After the first showing of The Two Towers, the reviews are now coming in. They are positive and SPOILER FILLED. Reviews can be found here, here and a short one here." Don't say you weren't warned. I'm not reading them. I finished re-reading TTT saturday, and am ready to see Ents walk.

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  1. Free pass in the super duper DVD box set. by heldlikesound · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just a heads up to all the peps out there it holdin' down. If you buy the special edition super ultra limited DVD box (with the bookend thingies), enclosed is a free pass to see TTT in the theaters, or theatres depending on your pondsidage.

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    1. Re:Free pass in the super duper DVD box set. by Phosphor3k · · Score: 5, Informative

      Got news for you buddy; the free ticket also comes in the special extended edition WITHOUT the bookends. That is to say, the 25$, 4 disc version also includes it.

  2. Re:Spoiler filled? by Soulslayer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, yes.

    It is both spoiler filled for both those that have and have not read the books.

    All info on the new film will be spoilerish for people that have not read the books (a surprisingly large group).

    Information pertaining to specific changes and added scenes as well as descriptions of the flow of the narrative would be spoilers even for the crowd that has read the books.

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  3. Re:What disappointed me... by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Informative

    LOTR is not a trilogy and the following movies are not sequels. It's one huge novel/movie that is divided into three parts for convenience.

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  4. Re:I can wait... by Gulthek · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um, he meant that the director's cut *for LOTR* is running in the theaters. Peter Jackson made a big deal about explaining that the new 4 hour release is not a "director's cut" because that implies that he was unhappy with something in the theater release, which he wasn't. He prefers people call it the "extended edition."

    So when the previous poster was referring to buying a director's cut, Phil made an attempt towards a joke that no one is getting.

  5. Re:Spoiler filled? by Mr+Guy · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, for complex reasons:How many frames can humans see?

    If there's a question, there's a Google

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  6. Re:Unbiased reviews by Jhan · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... The problem is the novels are so pervasive and anyone into "media" was probably into them at some time, unless they hate fantasy, in which case they would be biased against the Lord of the Rings movies.

    That statement is probably very true, which makes it even more interesting that I did not see one review in Swedish media that did not begin with words to the effect of:
    "I never in my life read Tolkien, but..."
    "I hated Tolkiens books, but..."
    "I regularly piss on Tolkiens grave, but..."
    and (this guy must be a real fan-boy) "I haven't read Tolkien in a great while, but...

    After which follows a favourable through enthusiastic review.

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