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Lord of the Rings Poll: FOTR or TTT?

Which did you guys like better?

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IMO Two Towers hands down.

i only liked two towers better cus of the big battle but i got bored during both of them

fellowship, i dunno why..

Maybe my opinion will change once ttt Extended comes along..

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i'm personally for Fellowship, It stayed away from most hollywood cliches. I watched FoTR on the upwards of 20 times. Two Towers i've seen 3. It was great the first couple times, but i just don't have the resolve to watch it, maybe because it seemed to far from Tolkiens work.

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Originally posted by exorcist
i'm personally for Fellowship, It stayed away from most hollywood cliches. I watched FoTR on the upwards of 20 times. Two Towers i've seen 3. It was great the first couple times, but i just don't have the resolve to watch it, maybe because it seemed to far from Tolkiens work.

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FoTR.....by far for me was more enjoyable

i really had to struggle to get through all of TTT

I def agree that there were way too many "hollywood" type storytelling tricks used in TTT



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Agreed fellowship easily

I think i posted similar comments after seeing it opening night...i don't know if i used the word hollywoodish, but i should have...

gimli becoming the comic relief, legolas doing stuff, like riding a shield down stairs, and grabbing the riegns of a horse and slinging himself onto the back...

and i really dispised the whole frodo journey this movie, boring to me...

plus i don't care what people say they made frodo and sam a little to homoerotic..."It's your sam, it's your sam" and so forth... i think the first one was more plot oriented and as i gain in years that seems to matter more to me

so that makes 2 movies reviews for me on this movie

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plus i don't care what people say they made frodo and sam a little to homoerotic..."It's your sam, it's your sam" and so forth... i think the first one was more plot oriented and as i gain in years that seems to matter more to me

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fellowship i like didnt want to end... with ttt.. i just wanted to fast forward everything =/

I thought both were much of a muchness. I think the first one might just be better. To be honest i'm not really that impressed with them as movies. Maybe when the trilogy is finished and i watch them back to back i might learn to appreciate them a little bit more.

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I agree very much on the "hollywoodish" point that was made, they went way too far in changing the book. It was like they thought they were better writers. And all those little 'stunts' were over the top and un-needed. This film seemed to be MUCH more oriented for big fights and not much reason to want to fight them. It also seemed to me to actually 'feel' like 3 hours very different to the feeling I got with the Fellowship that it needed a while longer to complete. Overall I will still be very anxious for the Return of the King but I think I could have directed the Two Towers better .

P.S. Not that I have seen it on this board, but what is the deal with so many ignorant people referring to the second installment of LotR as "The Twin Towers" grrr it is very annoying...

"The Twin Towers"

hahaha

i hadnt heard that before

anyways, since we are on the subject of over hollywoodization(i just made that up)

is it only me or was the "love" subplot between Arwen and Aragorn horrible and overblown??

Tolkien was not a romance writer!

yes he was, almost the whole aragorn and arwen scenes were from the appendices

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FOTR. end of story.

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Alex licks it.

part 2 was the best, but the second part of trillogy's are always the best

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Originally posted by ViZ
part 2 was the best, but the second part of trillogy's are always the best

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I personally liked Two Towers mainly cause of the big battle and how they designed the moving trees and the appearance of Gollum.

My parents bought the FoTR extended edition DVD and I have to admit I've watched it many times because it is still cool to watch again. Two Towers I've only seen once in theaters and I'm waiting for DVD to come out so my parents could buy it.

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Two Towers no question for me.

I enjoyed the first one, but you have more story depth, action, and adventure in this one.

I expect the 3rd to be the best.

Wow, 36 votes 18 for FotR 18 for TTT 50/50

I guess they were both good then?

I think you have to remember that the TTT is the middle of 'long' book, and FOTR is the beginning, therefore it's very difficult (for me at least) to say which is superior.

FOTR has much more of a plot, and much more of a "human" side to it, with the introduction of the characters, and their "bonding" to one-another.

Also, it's more like a real adventure with an unknown path. The characters traversed many more "different/unknown worlds or roads" if you will.

TTT is more straight-forward, and the audience knows more or less where each character is headed. It just didn't feel like they "traversed" or "adventured" as far or long in the second installment.

The movie was focused more on the battles and the physical. In that, TTT is an epic (which could have been made to have more of an impact if it were a little more grapic, along the lines of Braveheart. So it would've been R rated then. Screw the little kids, it's not a really a childrens story anyhow-- this aint Harry Snotter).

Also, PJ strayed the story in TTT more than he did in FOTR, which I wasn't too crazy about.

All that said, I give a slight razors edge to TTT, becasue I'm a bit more enticed by action, and those scenes were nonetheless stupendous.


I can't wait for the extended DVD release to come because I'm sure there will be alot more in it than there was in the FOTR extended.

Jim

The Two Towers

the part where Gullum/Smeagel is talking to himself was funny as hell

and he is the best CGI of all time {FU JarJar}

The two towers sucked

20% of it was not in the book

and the stuff that was replaced was crap , i mean when those star wars looking brown thing attacks them and aragorn goes missing , I dont remember that

Also the action bits were like rambo , cheesy jokes and stupid moves

The fellowship is gr8 , The extended TTT better be gud

uhhh those star wars brown things being the Worg's i believe. They were in a book. The Hobbit, so they are part of Middle-Earth's lore.

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the whole attack thing never happended tho did it ?

i better polish up i aint read for a few decades

the two towers is way better than the fellowship of the rings..

I know people will say that the two towers is dumb b/c it didn't follow the book completely....

and the action in two towers was really bad ass and the background imagery..like the lanscapes were hella sick ...tight shit man..

i'm really lookin forward to the return of the king..

im pretty sure it will be the best out of the whole trilogy!

a bigger battle!...more killin

Okay, My updated few on the feelings of the films is:

Two Towers i like less probably because it's impossible to literally like more as a movie. It has no beginning nor end, therefore it was technically done better than Fellowship of the Ring to be so close to it in my tastes, but the movie has the hollywood feel and leaves you with no introduction or conclusion. I'm also not a huge fan of big action-packed movies, which would be another reason i liked Fellowship of the Ring better.

In short, The Two Towers was better in technical achievement, and they did incredible things (and not so incredible) by making a book that largely involved an incredibly low action book up to the end. Adding the scene with the Worgs was required just to keep the movie from becoming a complete snooze.

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The Two Towers definately

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Originally posted by BoboBaggins
FoTR.....by far for me was more enjoyable

i really had to struggle to get through all of TTT

I def agree that there were way too many "hollywood" type storytelling tricks used in TTT



everytime Liv Tyler comes on screen i grooooann and moan

avert my eyes

plug my ears

haha

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