![]() ![]() The other two discs are nothing but special features, or appendices. Granted, it is a bit annoying to have to stop the movie and put in a new disc right in the middle of the film, but you’ll probably need snack break anyway. The first two discs contain just the extended edition of the movie. This isn’t just reference material, this a new and better vision of what Two Towers is supposed to be. Howard Shore even reworked the entire score to make it all completely seamless. But it is integrated in such a way that this isn’t a movie with more stuff tacked on, but an entirely new film. Sometimes it’s just a word or two of new dialogue. Sometimes it is a big sequence, several minutes in length. Unless you are EXTREMELY familiar with the theatrical edition, you won’t go through it noticing every place where they’ve inserted something new. ![]() Like the previous EE, the material here is seamlessly incorporated into the film. Perhaps not the most pivotal scenes, but for me some of the most memorable from the book. You’ll see them floating on wreckage engaging in merriment. This is pivotal stuff that makes what you saw in the Theatrical Edition not only deeper, but gives the entire film a much cleaner presence.Īlso of note, at least for me personally is the inclusion of more Merry and Pippin after the battle of Isengaard. We aren’t talking about cute scenes thrown in to add a few fan moments in, or things to appease Tolkien purists. But this sucker has 40 minutes of additional footage. I’ve already reviewed the theatrical edition, so reviewing this one might seem a bit redundant. What was almost as good as Fellowship is now in every way its equal. If you thought you were in love with Two Towers before, see the extended DVD and see it the way it should have been. This is how the movie should have been cut in the first place. No, what sets the Two Towers Extended Edition DVD apart from even the first Lord of the Rings Extended is that without all this, Two Towers doesn’t make sense. But then the Fellowship EE had all that too. Not just because they’ve thrown in some great extra scenes, or because the DVD itself has the greatest set of features in the history of the format, though those things are all great.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |