[ SECRET POST #1890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1890 ⌋


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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

13. http://i44.tinypic.com/2eex5q0.jpg

[awesome-emmy.livejournal.com]

I don't often say this, but I think you're genuinely missing out. If you didn't like the others, I'd say there's no point in bothering to see it. However, since you do like the others, I don't see how you could find this one not worth watching. Personally, I found the first one to be pretty boring and won't rewatch it, given the choice, but I love the second one. There's so much that happens and there's so many great character moments.

[(Anonymous)]

Ew, I like the character moments, but they don't make up for how much TTT was made ALL about Helm's Deep instead of Helm's Deep and Mordor. If I want character moments, I watch FOTR or ROTK. I like FOTR best of all.

Pelennor Fields is way better than Helm's Deep, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it might depend on which characters you like. This one was probably my least favorite of the trilogy.

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

I know that I've watched it, intellectually, but I watched it along with the other two, and it all kind of blurred together, so now I know that I've seen the first one, I like the first one, and I know I've seen the last one, but the second one? Somewhere in the middle there...

[(Anonymous)]

It would have taken less time to check than to make this secret. How fucking dumbass

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You don't remember Helm's Deep? Or the Three Hunters? Or the Taming of Smeagol? *eyes you askance* Hmmm... No, you haven't seen it yet.

[ladyyuna07.livejournal.com]

I don't like watching it, mostly because of the freaking video game. The one that was the first two movies? Yeah. The seventeen fucking levels that were the Battle at Helm's Deep. I FUCKING LIVED HELM'S DEEP. So no, I don't like watching it, because I've lived the movie enough.

But there was a lot of walking. And some hiding in front of the gate to Mordor with the magical camouflage capes. Oh, and some walking and talking trees.

(it's also kind of the basis for why I feel the second movie in most trilogies don't hold up to the other two, but I'm told often enough that I'm wrong. Whatevs, usually the second movies are never my favorite)

[inboots.livejournal.com]

i feel this way about RotK. TTT is actually my favorite of the lot.

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

That's like skipping out on the middle of the movie. I'm not sure you could understand what was going on in the third movie without having seen the second. It's not filler.

[ansley15.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite Lord of the RIngs movie <3 I love the other two, but something about the Two Towers gets chills running all up and down my spine in all the right places.

[(Anonymous)]

sad you feel that way OP. It's my personal favorite

[lorinadante.livejournal.com]

This one is easily my favorite of the trilogy (although I do love the two other movies)! It's also the one that had the most impact on me. I turned me into a LotR fan, AND it introduced me to the incarnation of awesomeness that is Brad Dourif.

I really should rewatch it, now that I think about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, TTT is my favorite of the series. The part where the Ents go to fight Isengard, even though they assume they're going to lose and they're just going to their doom? I tear up every. Freaking. Time. And when the elves show up at Helm's Deep? So great. I don't care if it didn't happen in the books, it's fucking perfect.

Not to mention the Faramir Is The Woobiest Woobie Ever flashback. <3

And you have Rohan (my favorite), and Eowyn, and poor Gollum, and AGGHH, I LOVE THAT MOVIE SO MUCH.

Also the soundtrack is the best one of the series. Just sayin.

*goes to watch*

[dinerstate.livejournal.com]

This is EXACTLY how I feel about the third, fourth and fifth Harry Potter movies. I mean, I don't own them, I know I went to the movies to see them because I clearly remember going, but I can't for the life of me remember what ACTUALLY happens in them. Maybe because I was just all-around disappointed with a lot of things and just blocked them out of my memory, in favor of the books.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's definitely worth the time to watch it, Anon, especially if you liked the other movies. I thought that TTT was the strongest movie of the trilogy. The pacing is excellent, and without the slow start up of the first or the meandering ending of the third. It's got the battle scenes down cold, and has some of the most amazing moments of the whole trilogy.

I will add one caveat, though-- I don't think the additional footage added much, if anything to the movie. If you want to save a few minutes and just watch the theatrical cut, you'd be fine.

[(Anonymous)]

You are stupid. That's all I've got on this one. Shaking my head so hard at you right now.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

That's the one I liked the best of the three, for some odd reason.

[zombieroadtrip.livejournal.com]

All I remember about this movie was that so many scenes were dull and colorless and visually it bored me to tears.

[fickletastictot.livejournal.com]

Motherfucking Helm's Deep tho. And Ents. And Eowyn being kept away from being a badass because she was a ~womenz~. And Aragorn falling off a cliff and somehow he lives to find his way towards Helm's Deep, and Legolas telling him off sometime later. And Gandalf the fucking White bringing Karl Urban oh haay Eomer's exiled crew to save the day by the blinding light of dawn. And this often-spoofed scene (http://youtu.be/9LOQxOQAxG0) where Gollum talks to himself.

And lots of other things, but yeah. Shit happens.

[aiffe.livejournal.com]

The Two Towers was my favorite of the book trilogy. It was masterful. Maybe that's why I felt so disappointed in the movie.

They spent WAY too much time in Helm's Deep. You realize that was a single chapter in the actual book. It was The Two Towers, not The Chronicles of Helm's Deep. But that was to show how glorious war is, you see. The Ents came off as slow as in stupid rather than slow as in thoughtful, and the hobbits--my beloved hobbits!--were suddently warmongers, egging Treebeard on into war. It felt wrong for them, and wrong for Treebeard to get his branches twisted into the fight that way. This was paralleled with Theoden resisting war even when the only alternative was annihilation, and needing to be cajoled and shamed--once again by the Good Guys--into fighting. In the book, there was no such scene. Once freed from Wormtongue's influence, Theoden was eager for a sword to hold. The book The Two Towers is anti-war, despite being about war. The movie is downright hawkish.

This came as especially disturbing in light of the political atmosphere when the film was released. While some saw the original books as paralleling WWII (which Tolkien himself repeatedly denied), Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings was latched onto by the Right as symbolizing the struggle between good and evil. This came during the Bush presidency, with the United States in two wars, and suddenly our enemies weren't even human beings, they were orcs. Perhaps Sauron and Mordor was Afghanistan--the older, more important war--but Saruman and Isengard was Iraq, a more immediate, if somewhat distracting, war. We're the good guys, of course! And in case you've forgotten how very necessary war is, let's have some strawman characters resisting it even though circumstantially it's pretty illogical, and wow you with our pro-war arguments that are totally relevant to the current situation.

Also, Faramir was unrecognizable to me, and I'd loved him. Frodo and Sam fighting was pure character assassination. I think they had enough conflict, okay. Adding that stuff was just cheap. And the most amazing part of the book, The Choices of Master Samwise, the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers, wasn't even in the movie! How anyone can praise the pacing of this trilogy when that was so thoroughly botched is beyond me. You didn't even have to have read the books to think that was just a bizarre stopping point for an epic movie. Gollum is....plotting something? Okay? Is something going to happen? No? We wait a year? Okay....

[(Anonymous)]

oh a LOTR secret!

Personally, TTT is my fav. FOTR is boring except for some moments - the peace in the shire, strider, rivendell but yeah that's about it.

TT is full of sidestories - Faramir, Rohan, Helm's Deep etc. Tbh I always skip the frodoxgollumxsam scenes at the beginnen because I do not liek them. I just continue them when they meet Faramir.

[riverfleur.livejournal.com]

The first and third are definitely my favorites, but the second is definitely a must watch if you liked the other two.

Gandalfs return, the scenes with Gollum, battle of Helms Deep, the Ents tearing it up at Isenguard, and Sam's 'the stories that really matter' speech make it an awesome movie IMO.

[htebazytook.livejournal.com]

You are doing it wrong to an epic degree.

[htebazytook.livejournal.com]

Also just a hint: it's that one WHERE GOLLUM IS INTRODUCED.

I just. I can't.