Saw The Two Towers last night (Yay for marrying a cinema manager!)
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WARNING: THIS IS A BITCHY REVIEW
I've read the book, I've seen the movie - were they the same story? Did the film even have a story?
Visually brilliant (except for the feeling I had that Gollum/Smeagol was a cross between Dobby the House-Elf & Jar-Jar Binks) with brilliant fight / war scenes.
However, for film over three hours long they missed the beginning (they stuck the first chapter at the end of the last film, remember?) and they missed quite a bit of the ending (presumably to make the last film even longer?)
Faramir is made out to be some evil twisted tyrant, rather than the wise & heroic chappie he should be, and kidnaps Frodo & Sam taking them to Gondor where they almost die in a big battle against orcs/nazgul.
Gimli appears to be the butt of all the camp jokes in the film (most unbefitting behaviour for a Dwarf - especially asking Aragorn to toss him!)
The Ents come across as being very hasty people, deciding in their meeting to not help the cause & changing their mind after Merry & Pippin trick them into seeing the damage Saruman has done to the forrest.
When Theoden's councillor Wormtongue appeared on the screen he looks so "Evil" it's funny, esp. with the evil music (I was expecting a BOO HISS! sign to be held up for him!)
There were other major plot errors that I can't be bothered to detail here, suffice to say that I didn't really enjoy the film much... which is a shame because I really liked the first one & still have high hopes for the third.
Last gripe: Aerwin (sp?) (Liv Tyler) is in this film more than she was in the last one.
Overall: Nice big battle scenes, but I much preferred watching McAlmont & Butler who I saw playing a gig next door to the cinema just before hand.
