Daku baru aja nonton TTT. Daku pasang reviewnya disini ya :D.

The Two Towers Review Part I

Seperti pendahulunya, The Fellowship of The Rings (FOTR), TTT is a masterpiece. Di review ini daku tidak akan membandingan perbedaan film TTT dg bukunya karena, IMO, buku dan filmnya sama-sama masterpiece yg tidak bisa disamakan sampai sedetail-detailnya dan punya kelebihan masing-masing. TTT membawa penonton sekali lagi ke middle earth. Di film epik ini, penonton bisa merasakan pergolakan dan perjuangan tokoh-tokoh middle earth untuk melawan kegelapan.

Tidak seperti FOTR yg lebih menjurus ke petualangan dan menemukan tempat-tempat baru yg eksotis (dan dibarengi dg kejaran dan halangan dari pasukan kegelapan, tentu saja), TTT lebih fokus ke peperangan melawan kekuatan kegelapan. TTT juga menjurus kepada peperangan melawan diri sendiri. Peperangan melawan rasa putus asa dan pesimisme yg meradang di anggota fellowship.

Tidak seperti FOTR, dimana kekuatan kegelapan sepertinya jauh dari pelupuk mata para tokoh-tokoh middle earth, di TTT, setiap tokohnya menghadapi kegelapan yg sepertinya tidak bisa dikalahkan. Tone filmnya lebih gelap daripada FOTR. We can feel that Middle Earth is doomed to destroy.

Diawali dg pecahnya the fellowship, TTT mempunyai 3 subplot, plotnya Frodo dan Sam, plotnya Merry dan Pippin, dan yg terakhir plotnya Aragorn, Legolas, dan Gimli. IMO Peter Jackson bisa mengeksekusi tiga alur cerita itu dengan baik. Meskipun tiga subplot ini masing-masing mempunyai cerita tersendiri, perpindahan dari satu cerita ke cerita yg lainnya tidak mengganggu ketegangan yg telah dibangung dan klimaks yg terjadi di subplot masing-masing. Di TTT plot lebih difokuskan ke cerita Aragorn, Legolas, dan Gimli.

Karakter-karakternya makin berkembang, terutama empat karakter The Hobbits. Mereka tidak se-innocence dan seceria seperti di FOTR. They have faced the real darkness and they know that they can die easily. Frodo character is getting darker and darker. Elijah Wood did a great work here. Sam benar-benar menjadi guide dan penolong Frodo di TTT. Merry dan Pippin bukan lagi karakter komikal seperti di FOTR. Karakter komikal dialihkan ke Gimli. Di TTT, comic relief yg bertujuan mengurangi ketegangan cerita, selain dilakukan oleh Gimli, dilakukan juga oleh Legolas dan Gholum.

Seperti yg telah diketahui bahwa FOTR adalah Frodo Show, banyak yg memperkirakan bahwa TTT adalah Aragorn Show dan Aragorn bakal bersinar di TTT. Setelah menonton TTT, I have to disagree with that opinion. Meskipun peran Aragorn meningkat di TTT, dia gagal menjadi spotlight film. Salah satu alasannya Gholum stealed the show. Gholum bisa melakukan apa yg aktor-aktor digital Final Fantasy gagal lakukan, Gholum is able to show his emotion. We can feel his confusion, his dilemma, his hatred, his love, his loyalty, his passion, and his disappointment. Gollum adalah karakter yg paling kompleks di TTT dan karakter yg paling kompleks ini dimaenkan oleh aktor digital.

Review battlescene-nya nanti ya :). Daku mau liburan, pergi ngejauhin komputer selama 4 hari.

Thanks buat review-nya :bravo: BTW dibikinin jadi thread sendiri ya? Biar lebih seru ngebahasnya :guns:

Tumben Krycek baca review, biasanya kan menghindari spoiler...

Boleh kan yah bikin banyak thread ttg Two Towers.

Originally posted by Mithrandir
Tumben Krycek baca review, biasanya kan menghindari spoiler...
(Siapa bilang gue baca? :D )

Originally posted by Mithrandir
Boleh kan yah bikin banyak thread ttg Two Towers.
Ya engga' ada dong yang ngelarang bikin thread (GP-nya lebih gede lho). But the usual rule apply: jangan dobel. Makanya mumpung kita lagi starting over, dibikin yang spesifik aja.

Wah, jadi pengen nonton dhe aww.. Ada yg tau kapan sih TTT turun di Indo?

mana kok ngga ada spoilernya?

spoiler: gollum bapaknya frodo.

Originally posted by Azazel
spoiler: gollum bapaknya frodo.

gak mungkin nih..!!

yang mau donlod tembakan filmnya udah ada tuh dilinternet..
dipecah jadi 25 files..
masing-masing 40 MB.

have fun!

spoiler: gollum bapaknya frodo.

ha ????? hihihihi........... :D :D

nggak mungkin dongggggggggg

baru nonton kemaren..
kerennnnnnnnnn bgt ::up::
2 jempol deh buat LOTR yg ini..especially battle scenenya...
sayang ada part yg menurut gue bagus tapi ga ditampilin di film ini..toobad..

Originally posted by Azazel
mana kok ngga ada spoilernya?

spoiler: gollum bapaknya frodo.

huakakakakkakakakakakaa ;D;D;D

gue juga baru selesai nonton. battle of helm's deep keren euy :cool:
eh gue koq lebih setuju aragorn 'ama si eowyn yah... lebih cakep en bisa perang... ga kaya arwen yg tak berguna itu... :D
trus.. menurut gue peran eowyn koq kurang dimunculin yak.. perasaan di forum sana sini sering diomongin... apa mungkin peran dia besar di ROTK?
oh ya tambahan.... faramir-nya nyebelin... :mad:

Originally posted by bubble
gue juga baru selesai nonton. battle of helm's deep keren euy :cool:
eh gue koq lebih setuju aragorn 'ama si eowyn yah... lebih cakep en bisa perang... ga kaya arwen yg tak berguna itu... :D
trus.. menurut gue peran eowyn koq kurang dimunculin yak.. perasaan di forum sana sini sering diomongin... apa mungkin peran dia besar di ROTK?
oh ya tambahan.... faramir-nya nyebelin... :mad:

Bubble!
tega dikau menyiksa diriku!:nangis:

gue bingung mau taruh dimana ... di sini aja ya daripada ntar dibilang spoiler:

The Hobbit and cut scenes from The Two Towers

20th December 2002
''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' earned $860 million worldwide, but director Peter Jackson still sports a ratty jacket, mended at the seams with duct tape. And even on New York City's coldest morning of the year, he's padding around the hotel lobby barefoot, the way he did on the set of his ''Fellowship'' sequel, ''The Two Towers.'' A Hollywood rarity, the 41-year-old New Zealand native appears unchanged by his critical and commercial success. To find out more, EW.com talked to Jackson about the difficulties of making ''Towers,'' one unlikely Oscar nomination, and what -- if anything -- comes after the trilogy.

What's the difference between ''The Two Towers'' and ''Fellowship''?
''The Two Towers'' was much, much harder because of the simple fact that ''Fellowship'' was a linear story. It started with Frodo and followed him all the way through. The decisions were simple: What do you leave in and what do you cut out? You didn't change the order of things; you just kind of followed the plot. In this film, because we have three different plot lines branching out, we had a lot of flexibility over how long we stayed with a particular plot before cutting to the other one. For example, in the last cut, [the CG creature] Gollum appears in the second scene of the film. But we did edits earlier this year where he didn't appear for half an hour. It was much more fun and much more of a creative exercise this year.

What was the most painful thing to cut from this one?
Not a great deal was cut. There's not very much [extra footage] with Frodo and Sam because there's so much of Gollum in each of their scenes, and because those shots are so difficult to do, you don't really do Gollum unless you absolutely know that it's going to be in the movie. [We cut] the whole scene where Merry and Pippin drink the Ent draught. I'll definitely put that on the DVD because it's so funny.

Gollum already has Oscar buzz. Can you imagine Andy Serkis -- who voiced and provided the movements for the CG character -- getting a supporting performance nomination?
To be honest, I think that what Andy has ultimately achieved with Gollum is as relevant an acting performance as ''The Elephant Man'' with John Hurt. Hurt's buried beneath inches of rubber, but he has to use his acting skills to push this prosthetic around and fuel the character. Andy is really doing the same thing. He's the driver manipulating this pixilated skin that we see in the film.

Along with the CG, there are a considerable amount of ambitious live action sequences, such as the Battle of Helm's Deep. How was it shooting those?
Viggo bore the brunt of the Helm's Deep battle. He had 14 weeks of night shoots in the rain and in the winter, and he was just amazing. He got whacked in the mouth with an Orc sword during one of the fight scenes and his front tooth got snapped off at the root. While any other actor would obviously immediately say, ''Take me to my trailer! Oh my God, my tooth! Stop, stop!'' Viggo just picked up this tooth. He was holding it in his hand and he goes, ''Gimme me some superglue. I'll just glue it back on and we'll keep fighting.'' We literally had to drag him to the car to go get some surgery and dental work done.

With these movies making hundreds of millions of dollars, is it conceivable that the producers could hire writers to script more adventures beyond the trilogy?
I don't think they have the rights to that. The Tolkien estate has very, very strict control. I'm not privy to the contract, but I would pretty much guess that nobody could write any ''Lord of the Rings'' stories to be filmed -- scripts or screenplays. New Line has the rights to adapt these three books, and that's it.

What about filming ''The Hobbit,'' Tolkien's prequel to this trilogy?
I can honestly tell you that [New Line has] never, ever discussed it with me. I've never had a single ''Hobbit'' conversation with anybody from the studio, and I've been working with them for five years now. But I know they've picked up the ''Hobbit'' production rights as part of the ''Lord of the Rings'' package -- essentially to keep anybody else from making a ''Hobbit'' film. The last thing that New Line wanted was to be spending all of this money on ''Lord of the Rings'' movies, and then have a cheesy ''Hobbit'' film get put out that somebody else makes.

Would you consider doing it eventually?
It would be a difficult decision. Difficult in the sense that I have other films that I want to make. I have three or four other ideas that I'm looking forward to doing one day. It would also be tough for me to think of somebody else doing it. But on the other hand, I'd like to pay 12 bucks and go see the ''Hobbit'' that somebody else made and avoid ME doing all the work.

What's the point of this whole Fellowship again?
The Fellowship was formed to protect and guide the Hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), keeper of the One Ring. Frodo's mission is to deliver the all-powerful, evil-inducing fingerwear to Mount Doom -- the place where it was forged by the evil Sauron and the only place where it can be destroyed. At the same time, Sauron's minion, Saruman (Christopher Lee), is busy trying to steal the ring back to use for his own nefarious ends.

What are the Hobbits up to this time around?
Frodo and his gardener Sam (Sean Astin) head toward Mount Doom, guided by Gollum, the same creep who stalked them in ''Fellowship.'' They trek through the bubbling Dead Marshes -- lined with fire-belching hotspots and rotting carcasses -- and suffer through Gollum's schizophrenic behavior (his good side wants to help destroy the Ring while his dark side would rather eat the ''filthy Hobbitses''). Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd), last seen in the clutches of Saruman's thugs, escape their captors and find refuge with the slow-talking, funny-walking trees called Ents (imagine Wilford Brimley reborn as an elm tree). After some persuasion, the Ents sign on for war against Sauron. If you ever thought trees were wimpy, wait 'til you see an Ent squash a whole mess of Orcs with one step.

Do we finally see our first big battle?
Absolutely. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Gimli (John Rhys-Davies), and Legolas (Orlando Bloom) end up at Helm's Deep in the Kingdom of Rohan and join the first large-scale good-versus-evil rumble of the trilogy. Besieged by an army of Orcs and other meanies, the three count off ''...twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three...'' as they tally their kills. By the time we leave them, each has surpassed 100. Aragorn, alone, offs that many as he rides down a narrow bridge, toppling every Orc in his way like a line of muscle-bound dominoes. As if that's not enough, Helm's Deep offers the best Dwarf-tossing scene in recent memory.

Who's departed since the last movie?
Absent is Ian Holm's Bilbo Baggins (cousin to Frodo), whom we last saw relaxing in his Elvish retirement home, Rivendel. Liv Tyler's Arwen -- a relatively important character in ''Fellowship'' -- pops up to snog Aragorn in flashback and dream sequences, but is otherwise unseen. And while we all know Boromir (Sean Bean) is dead, guess who ISN'T? Gandalf! (Remember, he fell down that rather ominous-looking hole.) Ian McKellen's Oscar-nominated wiz reappears decked out in white, making him -- you guessed it -- Gandalf the White. While he provides much-needed relief at the Battle of Helm's Deep, let's hope we never get to Gandalf the Plaid.

What new creatures appear?
''The Two Towers'' offers a bevy of beasties. Sauron's Ringwraiths -- cloaked spirits seeking the One Ring -- ditch the stallions they rode in ''Fellowship'' for impressive dragon-like beasts that chase down Frodo. And Saruman's legion of Orcs have dismounted their wimpy steeds for hyena-like Wargs and Oliphaunts, elephant-ish creatures that carry war towers on their backs. What would John Wayne say about that?

Which characters have bigger roles this time?
While Frodo's journey to Mount Doom is still a major plotline, he's no longer the trilogy's clear-cut Luke Skywalker. Sam's long-winded speeches become crucial in maintaining Frodo's sanity and propelling the journey. Meanwhile, the CG Gollum's stunning performance -- whether he's gnawing on a dead fish or conducting a two-way conversation with himself -- may keep your eyes diverted from Frodo altogether. Elsewhere, Aragorn begins to earn his title as leading man and eventual King of the land by way of his sword. Oh, and he makes the ladies swoon, too. But you already knew that.


Source: Entertainment Weekly

berita terakhir soal Two Towers: jadi nomor film nomor satu minggu ini di US dengan pendapatan total 101 million US dollars.
Meski masih kalah dari Spderman, tetapi mengalahkan Fellowship of The rings tahun lalu. lebih tinggi 30 Persen.

Buat yg belom nonton...ya harus nonton :)

walah.... asli.. gwe udah sekarat nungguin Two Towers...... bener-bener spoiler semua.. ;D ;D

ytseyanz heheh, dah nonton aja langsung, sabar sabar ... worth it ngantrinya .. asli keren ...
iyah itu gollum hebat bener yah pemunculan emotional of the character ... trus bener2 bisa bikin pitty but funny at the same time ...

hiks.. barusan nonton hasil donlot-an temen, tapi ko ga lengkap >:(

review-nya top. gollum emang tokoh sentral-nya. apalagi pas adegan dia ngelawan diri sendiri tea. trus si sam-nya juga udah rada-rada pinter gitu ya :)

Jadi pengen nonton lagi di bioskop. abis klo di kompie, sound systemnya kurangggggggggggggg

funny, according to this, http://www.theonering.net/movie/dates.html we should've been in theatres now, not in front of our computers.. :P

Originally posted by The Beef
funny, according to this, http://www.theonering.net/movie/dates.html we should've been in theatres now, not in front of our computers.. :P

lol, yup
masalahnya di sini masih midnight sih. penasaran nunggunya. udah ada *.mpg, ya udah tancep ajah

ahahahahahahahhahah
gue udah nonton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cerita dikit
gue dulu pas abis nonton LOTR FOTR, pendapat gue adalah..
"anjing ne movie keren banget.."
skrg.. abis gue nonton 2 towers.. pendapat gue adalah
"anjing ne movie keren banget.."+"aduh ada yg mau nonton lagi? gue temenin lagi de... why? coz this movie is worth to be watched twice"
2 towers, ACTIONNYA ITU LO!!!!!!!!!!!!! keren banget!!!!!!!!!
seru abis.... asli
kalo perbandingan adegan action FOTR vs 2 towers
itu sama aja Doraemon the movie vs Matrix :D :D :D :D

keren banget...

eh elu2 pada belon nonton yah? mau gue ceritain gak?? :devil:
gue ceritain de yah biar ntar elu nonton jadi kaga seru.. :devil:

tu felem musti loe tonton!!!!!! top abis........ keren mannnnnn....... the best movie ever!!!!!!!

that's all? ;D :hehe

GUA SUDAH NONTON PAS HARI PERTAMA KLUAR DI BIOSKOP!!!!!!!!!!

duuuhhhh!!! jadi gak sabar nunggu keluar disini, pasti deh mesti ngantri banget. hmmm......nonton film ini kayanya bakal butuh perjuangan deh ;D

udah maeeeeen! :D

gimana tuh, sesuai harapan ngga?

tgl 11 gua nonton yg midnait!
tapi ko endingnya ampe situ doank ya
ga ampe tamat buku 2nya
sayang.. padahal pengen liat Sarumannya dikalahin ma Gandalf
kebayang tuh Return of the King mo jadi sepanjang apaan
soalnya masi mayan banyak yg belom diceritain di buku 2 :(

Originally posted by Avantasia
tgl 11 gua nonton yg midnait!
tapi ko endingnya ampe situ doank ya
ga ampe tamat buku 2nya
sayang.. padahal pengen liat Sarumannya dikalahin ma Gandalf
kebayang tuh Return of the King mo jadi sepanjang apaan
soalnya masi mayan banyak yg belom diceritain di buku 2 :(

Heheh... ada juga yg merhatiin bukunya...
vol.3 kan difilmin cuman sampe bab Helm's Deep ngga nyampe bab Voice of saruman apalagi Palantir. Tenang aja Avan, semuanya akan ada di RotK! nunggu Cuman setaun aja ( I wonder how long it gonna take..)

bisa2 jadi 4 jam tu pilm
lumutan aja di korsi bioskop (tp ga papa gua rela)
coba Eowyn-nya ga dipanjang2in kali masi keburu nambahin 1 bab di buku 2 :p

Originally posted by Avantasia
bisa2 jadi 4 jam tu pilm
lumutan aja di korsi bioskop (tp ga papa gua rela)
coba Eowyn-nya ga dipanjang2in kali masi keburu nambahin 1 bab di buku 2 :p

Nanti kan buat setup RotK, Eowyn akan......

lah malah ngobrol.

review dong review. :)