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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 539094" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>Celebrim, please don't take this as a slam, but if your opinion of the first movie was that it was merely "OK", then I have a strong belief that I will at <em>the least</em> enjoy The Two Towers immensely. You and I, having come from different experiences of Tolkien, have totally different opinions of these movies. Whereas you see a butcher of the source material, I see the Greatest Fantasy Movie of the entire 20th century. If you count the Star Wars Trilogy as fantasy, then I call it the Second Greatest Fantasy Movie.</p><p></p><p>As I noted in earlier threads, Peter Jackson has defined Tolkien for me because, try as I might, I could not, and cannot, get through the prose of Tolkien - it comes off as so unwieldy as to be frozen to me. While he may tell a great story, I cannot understand that story, because it is buried in beautiful but prolific discussions of minutiae of the world he described, with the only way to take it in to dig through it one page at a time. Its something that I will have to accept as my loss, but I have to thank Tolkien for inspiring one of the best-written and produced movies on the silver screen.</p><p></p><p>That's why I take it for what it is - because when all is said and done, if this story is even one TENTH the experience that Tolkien fans and scholars say that his books are, then I am overjoyed that I am alive in this day and age to see such a fun experience.</p><p></p><p>I will actually be saddened when the third part rolls around, because my friends and I have started a sort of ritual at Christmas time, and after next year the ritual will have to change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 539094, member: 158"] Celebrim, please don't take this as a slam, but if your opinion of the first movie was that it was merely "OK", then I have a strong belief that I will at [i]the least[/i] enjoy The Two Towers immensely. You and I, having come from different experiences of Tolkien, have totally different opinions of these movies. Whereas you see a butcher of the source material, I see the Greatest Fantasy Movie of the entire 20th century. If you count the Star Wars Trilogy as fantasy, then I call it the Second Greatest Fantasy Movie. As I noted in earlier threads, Peter Jackson has defined Tolkien for me because, try as I might, I could not, and cannot, get through the prose of Tolkien - it comes off as so unwieldy as to be frozen to me. While he may tell a great story, I cannot understand that story, because it is buried in beautiful but prolific discussions of minutiae of the world he described, with the only way to take it in to dig through it one page at a time. Its something that I will have to accept as my loss, but I have to thank Tolkien for inspiring one of the best-written and produced movies on the silver screen. That's why I take it for what it is - because when all is said and done, if this story is even one TENTH the experience that Tolkien fans and scholars say that his books are, then I am overjoyed that I am alive in this day and age to see such a fun experience. I will actually be saddened when the third part rolls around, because my friends and I have started a sort of ritual at Christmas time, and after next year the ritual will have to change. [/QUOTE]
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