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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 568077" data-attributes="member: 158">Well, looking at box office earnings through the end of the year, The Two Towers is right on track to bust the doors off as one of the top 3 or 5 movies of 2002. It's made $200 million dollars so far - and it has so far made more money than the next four movies under it COMBINED. It is safe to say it is a hit with Tolkien fans, and a hit with the general public.Now, that means NOTHING if someone didn't like the movie. And criticizing someone's opinion who didn't like the movie doesn't mean anything either. You just have to say, "I have to disagree, and I'm sorry you feel that way, because I enjoyed the heck out of it." And leave it at that.To me, Jackson changed what he changed. He proved with box office figures that he knows not only how to make a movie, but to EDIT a movie well. Editing and pacing can make a poorly budgeted movie very good, and poor editing can make an expensive and well-acted movie an absolute flop, so I have to take contention that just putting the books to film would have been an automatic hit.Jackson has proven that he is the hottest commodity in directors for hollywood right now. Most studios would KILL for a literal Billion Dollar franchise, and Jackson has taken his vision of Tolkien's World, and make it entertaining for millions of moviegoers.</blockquote>