San Jose Mercury News reviews TTT

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2002-12-22 03:05pm

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/ ... 764611.htm

Warning: Do not read if you liked the movie and are operating heavy machinery.

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-12-22 03:22pm

*shrug* Like we care.

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-12-22 03:43pm

Bruce Newman wrote:But the movie's view of war as a necessary evil is more Bush than Blix, and the picture's violence invariably trumps the plodding story that surrounds it. That doesn't make it less entertaining, but may make it more reprehensible. Jackson has given "The Two Towers'' a gritty "Mad Max'' feel, in which death can come from anywhere. In one battle, the riding steeds resemble really well-fed wild boars, and they're just as deadly as the armored soldiers who sit astride them.

Errrrrrrr...ok. TTT like Mad Max?

And I like what he writes about the 'riding steeds;' Mr. Newman here needs to review what 'fantasy' means, methinks. Oy.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-12-22 03:53pm

The detractors of these films are going to be in for a huge surprise in 20 years when people are still watching and loving them.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-12-22 08:26pm

Even without the obvious connection to the twin towers brought down on Sept. 11 -- a symbolic link which the picture does not seem to shy away from -- Tolkien's ``Two Towers'' is by any measure a darker story than last year's ``The Fellowship of the Ring.''

Yes. Because as we all know, JRR Tolkein was pyschic.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-12-22 08:31pm

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the ``Ring'' trilogy in part to express his contempt for the industrialization that was talking place around him in England, and the movie sets forth a straightforward battle between the forces of mechanization (Sauron and Saruman) and the defenders of the land, led by the hobbit Frodo (played by Elijah Wood), the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen). They are aided in this by a principled stand of trees.

Huh? Industrialisation... Tolkein was about 150 years late to be writing about that theme...

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2002-12-22 08:38pm

Industralization was taking over ww2 England. Anytime now, The U.S civil war was will start.

Gollum talks like yoda? Yoda says: An idiot, the critic is. Split him in two, my lightsaber will.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-12-22 08:39pm

weemadando wrote:
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the ``Ring'' trilogy in part to express his contempt for the industrialization that was talking place around him in England, and the movie sets forth a straightforward battle between the forces of mechanization (Sauron and Saruman) and the defenders of the land, led by the hobbit Frodo (played by Elijah Wood), the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and the warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen). They are aided in this by a principled stand of trees.
Huh? Industrialisation... Tolkein was about 150 years late to be writing about that theme...

Hehe. And Frodo and Aragorn don't even meet Ents in the movie. It was Merry and Pippin who led that merry battle between the forces of mechanization and the forect.

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-12-22 09:51pm

neoolong wrote:Hehe. And Frodo and Aragorn don't even meet Ents in the movie. It was Merry and Pippin who led that merry battle between the forces of mechanization and the forect.

Aragorn DOES meet the Ents, or at least Treebeard, just not yet.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-12-23 01:00am

Dalton wrote:
neoolong wrote:Hehe. And Frodo and Aragorn don't even meet Ents in the movie. It was Merry and Pippin who led that merry battle between the forces of mechanization and the forect.
Aragorn DOES meet the Ents, or at least Treebeard, just not yet.

But based on the movie, which the review was supposed to be about, he hasn't yet.