Alex MB and I are waiting for Two Towers to begin. I don't think I have a data connection right now, but here we go....
well??
Very fun. He really sticks quite close to the book, which I like. There are the standard too white, too male criticisms to be made, and they are surely correct, but we already knew this about Tolkien. I think it's enough just to acknowledge this and get on with enjoying a rather good story.
Lots of violence. I would think a young kid might be rather frightened. The Dead Marshes were particularly well done and spooky. The computer graphics on the Helm's Deep battle are as good as billed, but I thought the Ent's looked a bit (as MB remarked) muppet-ish.
If you liked the first one I don't see how you can't like this one too. But if you had problems with the first, they're all still here in this one. I could do with a bit less of the Sam Frodo dialogue, but that's just me, and I don't fault them for putting it in. They are going for a rather wide audience after all. And apparently doing pretty well at it.
On a side note, we saw it at 14th and B'way which I had been calling my favorite theatre due to the rather nice chairs and steep pitched stadium seating viewing angle. But again, as with the first episode, we were in one of the theatres where the screen was way above the seats. What is that called? "Out of parallax," or something? We were looking up at a severe angle, and it kind of distorts everything. Is there just one bad theatre in that complex and we got unlucky again, or is that place not really as good as I had thought?
In any case, an enjoyable night. Make sure you use the restrooms before it starts.
I'm pretty sure that's the only one like that (waaay out of parallax). But the theatre building is no longer UA. It's something called Regal Cinema. They play twice as many ads before the movie starts.
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- jim 12-27-2002 4:45 am
well??
- Skinny 12-27-2002 3:00 pm
Very fun. He really sticks quite close to the book, which I like. There are the standard too white, too male criticisms to be made, and they are surely correct, but we already knew this about Tolkien. I think it's enough just to acknowledge this and get on with enjoying a rather good story.
Lots of violence. I would think a young kid might be rather frightened. The Dead Marshes were particularly well done and spooky. The computer graphics on the Helm's Deep battle are as good as billed, but I thought the Ent's looked a bit (as MB remarked) muppet-ish.
If you liked the first one I don't see how you can't like this one too. But if you had problems with the first, they're all still here in this one. I could do with a bit less of the Sam Frodo dialogue, but that's just me, and I don't fault them for putting it in. They are going for a rather wide audience after all. And apparently doing pretty well at it.
On a side note, we saw it at 14th and B'way which I had been calling my favorite theatre due to the rather nice chairs and steep pitched stadium seating viewing angle. But again, as with the first episode, we were in one of the theatres where the screen was way above the seats. What is that called? "Out of parallax," or something? We were looking up at a severe angle, and it kind of distorts everything. Is there just one bad theatre in that complex and we got unlucky again, or is that place not really as good as I had thought?
In any case, an enjoyable night. Make sure you use the restrooms before it starts.
- jim 12-27-2002 6:27 pm
I'm pretty sure that's the only one like that (waaay out of parallax). But the theatre building is no longer UA. It's something called Regal Cinema. They play twice as many ads before the movie starts.
- tom moody 12-27-2002 7:42 pm