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Deep Elf reviews The Two Towers exclusively for Xenite.Org

December 03, 2002 at 20:23:40

Deep Elf recently mentioned he would be seeing Peter Jackson's second Rings movie. We asked him to contribute a new movie review in our essays section, and he graciously risked his life to do so.

If you're looking for spoilers, Deep Elf has them. So, if you don't want to be spoiled, but want to see the movie fresh and without prejudice, stop reading this article now.

For those of you who are bold of heart (and perhaps a slight bit rebellious in nature, as the Noldor were), here are the opening paragraphs from Deep Elf's wonderful review of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers":

The Two Towers is definitely a departure from "The Fellowship of the Ring" in many ways. For one thing, although there are many more fantasy creatures than in the first movie, this one feels much less like a fantasy film than "Fellowship" did. It hasn't all quite sunk in yet, but I try to mention as many things as possible here.

Many great things in "The Two Towers" exceeded my expectations, and the biggest one was Gollum. He was perfect. He looked pathetic. He looked twisted and not like someone you would want to tangle with. He seemed very fractured -- what I mean is that you could tell by looking at him that his mind was half lost. But there was also another side of him: A very pitiful, wretched side which was very humble and eager to please. One cannot say enough good things about Gollum. Visually, though, he looked like an actual shrivled, twisted creature that you could touch (and this was one of the most important things to me). He did not seem at all like a computer generated image pasted onto the screen.

Another really special surprise: I didn't think we would see the elvish cloaks in action, and indeed they were not used where they should have been most used, but they were utilized before the Gate of Mordor in a very cool visual effect.

Read the full article here.

Thanks, Deep Elf!