***Official LOTR: The Two Towers DVD Discussion Thread*** -- All Posts Here; NO EXCEPTIONS (1 Viewer)

[Paul W]

Yeah!

Orthanc and Barad Dur bookends would have been nice for those of us whose bookcases have more than one shelf.

 

[Dennis Pagoulatos]

That's what I thought they were going to give us when the FOTR set came out last year...duh it's obvious, 2 Towers, perfect as bookends. Ya just never know... Gollum is cool, but:

A) As others have pointed out, he's taking a dump.

B) He's a painted statue, differing completely in style from the FOTR figures.


It would have been nice to have all of the figures look like they were done by the same artist in the same style, so they can be displayed as a set. Oh well...

-Dennis

 

[Brian W.]

Yeah, I am not particularly fond of that Gollum statue. I still will probably get the statue set, but only for the "Creating Gollum" DVD. I agree that bookends of Orthanc and Barad-dur would have been ideal.

 

[Matt Stone]

I'd prefer Orthanc and Barad-dur as well. Even if they weren't bookends, they would be great as just statues.

As is, my itty-bitty wallet can only afford the standard EE at this time.

 

[ChrisKe]

Does anyone have a link to the details of what's on the Gollum disk of the Gift set. I had a quick look on lordoftherings.net but they only mention the creation of the statue and some interviews with cast and crew.

 

[Matt Stone]

I'm not sure that they've revealed any more information than that.

 

[BrettB]

Why did they make a statue of Gollum taking a dump?

The Number Two Towers?

 

[Wade_Kennerson]

I didn't see Gandalf's (Ian McKellen) Commentary either in that list. Why would they have Denethor commentary when he didn't even make it into the Theatrical Cut? I mean what is he going to offer?

 

[Mark Zimmer]

Denethor will be in the extended cut (via flashback, I think), so he can certainly talk about that.

 

[Craig S]

McKellen's absence is odd. Perhaps he had a scheduling confict?

Of course, missing from BOTH the FotR & TTT EE commentaries is Viggo Mortenson. I'd LOVE to have heard what he had to say about kicking that helmet that broke his toe!

 

[Kami]

Does anyone have a link to the details of what's on the Gollum disk of the Gift set.

I'm not quite sure what is on the disc, but here's an image of the case:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/view/8400

 

[Tony_Ramos]

Several things:

First:

For those at the beginning of the thread debating about the Balrog's having wings, it is quite clear in the book that the Balrog was followed by wispy smoke trails that "seemed" to form the shape of wings yet one could not be quite sure, just as one can not be quite sure if the balrog is formed of rock or pure shadow. The only liberty PJ and Taylor took was making the balrog into a cross between a bull and a dog, I believe that the balrog was envisioned by tolkien to be more humanoid in nature. So in that case, i think that the films portrayal is quite faithful to the book. If you press me i'll get off my lazy behind and find the page # and quote the book.

Second:

could someone plz tell me if the two extra features on the special edition Nat'l Geographic video contained in the EE boxed set of FOTR were any good, and worth buying the set? I was considering buying a second copy, possibly in R1 or R4 so I can see the extra detail.

Third:

I'm guessing that the reason why a horizontal filter was applied to the Two Towers and FOTR theatrical releases is b/c they had to fit a nearly 3 hour film on one disc. Would this be an accurate assumption?

Fourth:

Was there an Academy Screener of FOTR, and if so, was it also free of the horizontal filtering?

 

[Aaryn Chan]

Hello dude,

First,



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Sixth,

I dont know but I always thought they will give us the Two Towers bookends. I was going to buy the Agonads bookends if they really made the TT bookends. Gollum just looks soo ugly. I dont want to have nightmare.

 

[nolesrule]

Agonads? I could put a really horrible joke here, but I won't.

The correct word is Argonath.

 

[Matt Stone]

HAHA!

 

[david*mt]

Why isn't Viggo Mortensen on the cast commentary?

 

[Malcolm R]

From what I've seen of him in a couple interviews, he doesn't seem very happy with the films. So he may have declined to participate.

 

[David Forbes]

From what I've seen of him in a couple interviews, he doesn't seem very happy with the films.

Really? That's the first I've heard that. Any sources you can point me toward. In the interviews in the FOTR EE he seemed really excited by the movies.

 

[Malcolm R]

I don't recall exactly; I think they were TV interviews. But his statements seemed to indicate he felt that Peter Jackson sacrificed drama for action in the editing room. I distinctly remember him saying in one interview that the movie he saw in the theater was very different from the movie he thought he was making on the set, and he didn't seem very happy about it.

Who knows, maybe he was just having a bad day or was sick of talking about the films all the time.

 

[Graham Perks]

The National Geographic disk was OK, but you're not really missing much without it. Ther's a lot of overlap between that and the regular two extra discs.

The Gollum statue looks naff. Bookends would have been FAR better. I think I'll be skipping the 5-disc super pack this time.