Lord of the Rings: Two Towers Reviews Rolling In

flogger writes "After the first showing of The Two Towers, the reviews are now coming in. They are positive and SPOILER FILLED. Reviews can be found here, here and a short one here." Don't say you weren't warned. I'm not reading them. I finished re-reading TTT saturday, and am ready to see Ents walk.

Spoiler filled?

[Grylle]

Like, there is something not in the books?

Offensive title

[91degrees]

I really wish the media would stop trying to cash in on the events of 9/11. I think this title will upset many people.

What was wrong with The Lord of the Rings II?

Spoilers?!?

[halftrack]

What have the world come to when the submitters warn the /. crowd about spoilers in a LOTR movie. Doesn't the entire /. crowd know it by heart?? It ... makes me sad.

SPOILERS, OH NOES!!!

[webslacker]

Spoilers can be found distributed in Barnes & Noble bookstores for $6.99

-_-

Re:Spoiler filled?

[Ledora]

Pictures and sound

Re:Spoiler filled?

[halftrack]

Apologies to whoever on slashdot who once wrote something very similar to this.

I've got this genious rendering engine called B.R.A.I.N. It renders hundreds of thousands of characters realtime and it looks so realistic. All you have to do is input a text (ASCII not an requirement) and it output gorgeous scenes instantanious.

Re:Offensive title

[mgv]

I really wish the media would stop trying to cash in on the events of 9/11. I think this title will upset many people.

Actually, it was the name of the second book a long time before 9/11. In fact, it really has nothing to do with the WTC, except by your own interpretation.

Michael

Re:Offensive title

[Rubbersoul]

Man the words Hook, Line, and Sinker come to mind from some reason

LOTR

[Konster]

...I've never read the books.

Where can I get the Cliff's Notes?

Re:Offensive title

[91degrees]

Don't be daft. The novelisation's title can't have been decided on before the film was made.

Re:Offensive title

[onnellinen]

Yeah. Let's name it "Attack of the Orcs".

Not in the book...

[Hoarse Whisperer]

Turns out Frodo is Sauron's son.

Re:Spoiler filled?

[91degrees]

The spoilers:

The butler did it.

It turns out that he was dead all along.

She's a guy.

Spoilers right in the story

[daffmeister]

I am ready to see Ents walk.

Well that's ruined that bit for me.

Re:Not in the book...

[tanveer1979]

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Re:Offensive title

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it's being renamed The Twin Towers. Or better yet, The World Trade Center, New York City. Or how about, Attack of the Terrorist Drones. Maybe The Phantom Arab Menace? A New Hope for the Al-Quaeda Network? The 'Evil Empire' Strikes Back? Return of the Mujadeen?

2001: An Urban Crisis Odyssey? Osama of Arabia? The Wizard of Afghanistan? The Day the Earth Watched TV? Birth of a Palestinian Nation? Casabinladen?

Re:Spoiler filled?

[AyeRoxor!]

"I've got this genious rendering engine called B.R.A.I.N. It renders hundreds of thousands of characters in realtime and the output looks incredibly realistic. All you have to do is input some text (ASCII not an requirement), and it outputs gorgeous scenes instantaniously."

WOW! I know some people who could use one of these...

Re:Spoilers right in the story

[warrior_on_the_edge_]

Lucky he didn't mention the ent tripping over a tree root.

Noooo!

[redNuht]

I hate you Taco, I hate you! I was avoiding all those spoilers and reading the spoiler-free Slashdot frontpage and you tell me that ENTS CAN WALK!?

I don't wanna see that movie anymore.

Re:Offensive title

[91degrees]

I looked for the J.R.R Tolkien section, but couldn't find it. Is it anywhere near the fantasy section?

TruthMedia review

[Anonymous Coward]

It should be interesting to see what TruthMedia makes of the Second film after their review [somethingawful.com] of the first.

Re:Spoiler filled?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, her wife is.*rimshot*

Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the fish.

Re:Offensive title

[clickety6]

Surely in line with modern thinking, the Trilogy should realy be

The Hobbit Episode II, III and IV,
and then the Hobbit will be released about 20 years from now, along with enhanced Episodes II, III and IV featuring a digitally inserted Tom Bombadil with a Jamaican accent and dreadlocks.

Or wait, should they be The Silmarillion Episodes III, IV and V

Or maybe...

Re:Spoiler filled?

[jallen02]

Another of my favorite responses to the threads about games where people get hung up on FPS.

Goes something like..

"That is nothing, I can get several trillion polygons with billions of colors at thousands of frames per second! It is called outside, you should try it some time. Check out the cool wind special effects some time as well ;)"

Jeremy

PLEASE STOP POSTING JOKES

[Anonymous Coward]

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• ???
  
• All your base are belong to Natalie Bortman

Re:Spoiler filled?

[gowen]

You missed:
He's "mother"
Vader is Luke's father
Samuel L. Jackson caused all those accidents
He dies in the end. Judas betrays him.

Choice quote from one review:

[Anarchofascist]

Talking about the fight scene in Helm's Deep:

"...made ATTACK OF THE CLONES look like it was shot in a barn with hand puppets."

Re:Trolling avoidance FAQ V1.0b

[silicon_synapse]

Also, if you talk about Microsoft, write Microsoft or MS, not Micro$oft, M$, MicroShit, MicroShaft, MickeySoft of any variation of these.

Is Micros~1 acceptable?

"I'm not reading them"

[fungus]

Don't say you weren't warned. I'm not reading them. I finished re-reading TTT saturday, and am ready to see Ents walk.

Since when the editors read the articles anyway? :)

Re:Offensive title

[artemis67]

I vote for:

Lord of the Rings II: Electric Boogaloo

and maybe a huge dance number on the battle front with Michael Jackson and 40,000 orcs.

Re:Spoiler filled?

[Ilan Volow]

Gandalf kicks some booty in Isengard while Johnny Cash's "ring of fire" plays in the background. It annoys the purists, but I think the scene kicks ass.

On a good day...

[artemis67]

Aint It Cool acts like it is slashdotted. Linking to an aintitcool.com story on Slashdot is only pouring more gasoline on the fire.

Re:Spoiler filled?

[tigertigr]

Outside? Like this [somethingawful.com]?

Re:Spoiler filled?

[Cruciform]

Wow, you need to learn to read faster. :)

Re:Offensive title

[Lemmy Caution]

"Dude, Where's My Ring?"

Re:I can wait...

[Lemmy Caution]

Oh, you've seen my brother's wedding videos, too....

Re:Spoiler filled?

[Tetsujin28]

He dies in the end. Judas betrays him.

Man, you didn't stay until the end of the credits, did you? Yeah, he dies at the end, but get this -- three days later they go to the gravesite, and IT'S EMPTY! Creepy, right? But then he actually like shows up and it turns out he came back to life. Seriously, dude. His old friends are freaked out for a while, but then they get used to it. And then they all hang out on the beach and have this fish barbecue, but I'm not sure what's up with that.

Re:Spoiler filled?

[gowen]

Aww, thats just a rip off of the ending of Carrie...

Re:Spoiler filled?

[junkgrep]

You left out the easter egg at the end where it's revealed that he's the king of the vampires. His followers drink his body and blood to take on his undying powers and spread out through the world looking to turn others to their master's will.

Re:Spoiler filled?

[Daetrin]

Maybe the battle of Helm's Deep turns out differently, Denethor throws in his lot with the Uruk Hai? This obsession with 'spoilers' can be taken too far. If people really don't want to know what happens in the movie they shouldn't watch it or read about it.

Not watch it? That seems a bit extreme.

Perhaps they should put a new message up at theatres, "Warning, this movie contains spoilers for this movie."

Re:p2p?

[elementik]

I tried to download the second Harry Potter movie and got a pr0n and the first Harry Potter movie instead!

Which one did you watch first?

Re:Offensive title (supplemental)

[Vegan Pagan]

After all, Sauron lives in the White House and Saruman lives in London.