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Product Description DVD Special Features and Technical Information:Discs 1 & 2 (The Feature) Feature (approx. 206 minutes PAL) A new version of the second installment in the epic trilogy! The film includes over 32 minutes PAL of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film, made especially for this release: * Widescreen (2.35:1) version of the Special Extended Edition * Dolby Digital EX 5.1 Surround Sound * DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound * Stereo Surround Sound Four audio commentaries by director and writers, the design team the production team and the cast featuring more than 30 participants including Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom and Academy Award winners Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Randy Cook and many more Discs 3 & 4 (The Appendices) Two discs with hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design /photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Disc 3 Adapting the book into a screenplay & planning the film Designing and inspiration for locations in Middle-earth Storyboards to pre-visualisation Weta Workshop visit See sculptors in action as they create the weapons, armor, creatures and miniatures from the film Atlas of Middle-earth: Tracing the journey of the Fellowship An interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process Galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists And much more! Disc 4 Sending actors to battle preparation for sword fighting Principal photography: Stories from the set Digital effects including motion capture and "Massive" (a program to create armies of Orcs) "Bigatures" A close-up look at the detailed miniatures used in the film Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos Post-production editing it all together Sound design demonstration And much more! desertcart.co.uk Review With significant extra footage and a multitude of worthwhile bonus features this extended version of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is as colossal an achievement as its predecessor, The Fellowship of the Ring. There are valuable additions to the story, including two new scenes which might appease those who feel that the characterisation of Faramir was the film's most egregious departure from the book; fans will also appreciate an appearance of the Huorns at Helm's Deep plus a nod to the absence of Tom Bombadil. Seeing a little more interplay between the gorgeous Eowyn and Aragorn is welcome, as is a grim introduction to Eomer and Theoden's son. And among the many other additions, there's an extended epilogue that might not have worked in cinemas, but is more effective here in setting up The Return of the King. While the 30 minutes added to The Fellowship of the Ring felt just right in enriching the film, the extra footage in The Two Towers at times seems a bit extraneous--we see moments that in the theatrical version we had been told about, and some fleshed-out conversations and incidents are rather minor. But director Peter Jackson's vision of JRR Tolkien's world is so marvellous that it's hard to complain about any extra time we can spend there. While it may seem that there would be nothing left to say after the bevy of features on the extended Fellowship, the four commentary tracks and two discs of supplements on The Two Towers remain informative, fascinating, and funny, far surpassing the recycled materials on the two-disc theatrical version. Highlights of the 6.5 hours' worth of documentaries offer insight on the stunts, the design work, the locations and the creation of Gollum and--most intriguing for avid fans--the film's writers (including Jackson) discuss why they created events that weren't in the book. Providing variety are animatics, rough footage, countless sketches and a sound-mixing demonstration. Again, the most interesting commentary tracks are by Jackson and writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens and by 16 members of the cast (eight of whom didn't appear in the first film, and even including John Noble, whose Denethor character only appears in this extended cut). The first two instalments of Peter Jackson's trilogy have established themselves as the best fantasy films of all time, and among the best film trilogies of all time, and their extended-edition DVD sets have set a new standard for expanding on the already epic films and providing comprehensive bonus features. --David Horiuchi Review: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Review - Great movie and really good value. I would definitely recommend you watch it if you liked the books. Review: Quality10/10 - Excellent quality, great price
| ASIN | B00009RGAA |
| Actors | Bruce Allpress, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9 - 2.35:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 1,218 in DVD & Blu-ray ( See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray ) 99 in Fantasy (DVD & Blu-ray) 172 in Box Sets (DVD & Blu-ray) 344 in Action & Adventure (DVD & Blu-ray) |
| Customer reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (12,158) |
| Director | Peter Jackson |
| Is discontinued by manufacturer | No |
| Item model number | 5017239191886 |
| Language | English (DTS ES 6.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), English (Stereo) |
| Media Format | PAL, Special Edition |
| Number of discs | 4 |
| Producers | Barrie M. Osborne, Bob Weinstein |
| Product Dimensions | 14.5 x 3 x 19.5 cm; 340 g |
| Release date | 18 Nov. 2003 |
| Run time | 3 hours and 45 minutes |
| Studio | Entertainment in Video |
| Subtitles: | English |
| Writers | Fran Walsh, J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair |
A**N
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Review
Great movie and really good value. I would definitely recommend you watch it if you liked the books.
S**S
Quality10/10
Excellent quality, great price
C**Y
Lord of the rings extended twin towers
Really great film even better with all the scenes that wasn’t shown in cinema
C**.
Good for the die hard LOTR Fan
Good for the die hard LOTR Fan. The extra 25 mins is worth it.
M**N
Good
Great movie
J**N
Smeagull
Still not 100% sure on what exactly taters is, precious.
B**K
Brilliant, but marred if you have read the book
If I had never read the book, I would probably regard the film The Two Towers as a near masterpiece. However, I feel its got enough awesome reviews to withstand a bit of criticism. I'm a Tolkien nerd, having read the book about 20 times in my childhood. I didn't expect Peter Jackson to faithfully include every part of the book, nor did I expect him to reproduce those parts he did choose verbatim. The book is so long and so rich - I understand, as a fan himself, Jackson must have agonised over what to cut out. What I didn't expect was for him to invent gratuitously unnecessary scenes that were not in the book. I can forgive the skirmish with the wargs - a scene not explicitly in the book, but quite possible in the context of the situation in Rohan at the time. However, the subsequent near drowning and temporary disappearance of Aragorn was a pointless fiction. The presence of Lorien elves at Helms Deep was not credible - the defence policy of Galadriel and Celeborn was quite isolationist, being committed to protecting Lorien itself. In any case, it is unlikely their force could have got there so quickly. A small but lazy faux-pas was the portrayal of Faramir using the large-scale schematic map of Middle Earth from the book - about as much use to a military tactician as using a globe of the Earth to find your way from Oxford St to Hyde Park Corner. What was most disappointing was the invention in the closing scenes of Faramir forcibly escorting Frodo and Sam to Osgilliath in an attempt to bring the ring to Minas Tirith. The book reveals Faramir as much wiser man than his impetuous older brother. The scenes of the battle for Osgilliath with the Nazgul nearly snatching Frodo were clearly an attempt to give a cinematic ending to the second book - however, this was not necessary as the glorious depiction of the siege and subsequent relief of Helms Deep did that quite brilliantly. As a Tolkien purist, I was pleasantly surprised by the loyalty to the book of the Fellowship of the Ring. So, despite the brilliant battle scenes of The Two Towers, I have to deduct a star for this film because it has some serious diversions from the director's own stated intention to remain true to Tolkien. However, I withhold overall judgement on the trilogy until I see The Return of the King. I hope that, despite the huge plaudits The Two Towers has got, Jackson will take cognisance of the criticisms of his invented scenes and limit any unnecessary departures from the script in the final film. I also look forward to seeing on the documentaries in The Two Towers DVD how Jackson rationalises his invented scenes – and to what scenes cut from the cinema version are restored in due course on the extended DVD version.
G**S
Great movie
Great movie and lots of extras not seen at the cinema in the extended version.
V**L
Okay so i totally LOVE the Lord Of The Rings They are - clean, funny, and entertaining. The two towers is my favourate of the three because it had the best battle scene, its not for kids under 12 because the Orks and the wild men are creepy, but for older it has amazing morals. if your a christian and you know your bible really well then you can tell that it is kind of bible based, even if you are not it still is a fantastic show, great buy!!!!
2**D
Indispensable. Ce chef d'œuvre es à regarder et re-regarder avec la belle qualité du DVD, sans dépendre des plates-formes... Bonne soirée.
M**E
Es ist ja immer schwierig, wenn ein Buch verfilmt wird, das einem super gefallen hat. Aber in diesem Fall ist es wirklich mehr als gelungen! Ich liebe das Buch UND ich liebe den Film!
L**R
Bought it for my mum for Christmas. She really enjoyed it and still regularly watches it.
A**K
Ich kann die Annahme, die begeisterten Filmfans hätten das Buch nicht gelesen, nur belächeln. Vielleicht sind wir, die sowohl vom Film wie auch von dem Buch begeistert sind, einfach in der Lage, die Dinge voneinander zu trennen. Tolkiens Werk hat mich begeistert in seiner Fülle und Vielfalt an Fantasie, so daß ich es immer wieder zur Hand nehme. Unter anderen auch, um mich manchmal daran zu erinnern, wie die Dinge im Buch aussehen und wie sie im Film umgesetzt wurden. Und nichtsdestotrotz, daß Buch und Film sich in einigen Punkten maßgeblich unterscheiden, bin ich von beidem restlos begeistert! Tolkien füllt das Reich unserer Phantasie mit faszinierenden Geschichten, Peter Jackson verwöhnt uns mit prachtvollen Bildern. Allen Kritikern an dem Film sei gesagt: Peter Jackson, selbst ein großer Tolkien-Fan, hat nie einen Hehl daraus gemacht, daß die Verfilmung der "Herr-der-Ringe"-Trilogie SEINE EIGENE Version, seine Interpretation des Buches ist und er sich nicht sklavisch an die Vorlage gehalten hat. Also war jedem selbst überlassen, ob er sich unter diesen Gesichtspunkten die Filme anschaut, oder nicht! Ich finde die Idee, Arwen und Legolas Persönlichkeiten im Film stärker herauszuarbeiten und der Geschichte um Aragorn und Arwen, die eigentlich nur in den Anhängen des Buches Erwähnung findet, im Film stärker herauszuarbeiten, absolut gelungen. Gerade sie gibt im Film dem wesentlich düsteren zweiten Teil den bittersüßen Touch, der die Geschichte um Aragorn und Eowyn trägt. Die Persönlichkeiten des Buches sind im Film hervorragend und überzeugend besetzt und ich hatte absolut keinen Zweifel, meine "Helden" des Buches im Film wiederzufinden, wenn auch hier und da auf andere Art und Weise. Ich denke, wenn man Film und Buch als zwar voneinander abhängiges, aber jeweils eigenständiges Werk sieht, sich nicht ständig damit beschäftigt, die Filme mit dem Buch zu vergleichen und Abweichungen zu suchen, dann kann man beides absolut genießen! Ich habe sowohl "Die Gefährten" wie auch "Die zwei Türme" mehr als 20 mal gesehen und bin es immer noch nicht leid. Beide Teile sind absolut gelungen, faszinierend von der ersten Minute an und jedes einzelne Bild überzeugt. Innerhalb weniger Minuten vergißt man die Welt um sich herum und leidet mit Merry und Pippin unter den furchtbaren Uruk Hai; kämpft sich mit Frodo, Sam und Gollum durch die Emyn Muil und sieht mit Entsetzen die furchtbaren Ringgeister auf ihren geflügelten Ungetümen; steht man in der Goldenen Halle in Edoras und verfolgt, wie Gandalf den König von Saruman's Einfluß befreit und kämpft an der Seite von Aragorn, Legolas und Gimli in Helm's Klamm in einer Schlacht, wie die Leinwand sie noch nicht gesehen hat!! Und zählt fieberhaft die Tage bis zum Erscheinen des dritten und leider letzten Teils ... Meine ehrliche Meinung? "Die zwei Türme" ist mindestens so faszinierend wie "Die Gefährten", nur der "Grundton" hat sich verändert. Wird die Geschichte im ersten Teil noch maßgeblich von einer lineraren Geschichte um den Ring und den gemeinsamen Marsch der Gefährten getragen, so teilt sich nun der Film - wie auch das Buch - in mehrere Geschichten um Sam, Frodo und Gollum, Merry und Pippin, und Gimli, Leoglas und Aragorn. Aber der Wechsel vom Schicksal der einen zu dem der anderen ist flüssig und harmonisch, so daß man nie den Faden und die Geschichte um die anderen aus dem Blick verliert. Neben den überzeugenden Darstellern des ersten Teils kommen neue großartige Charaktere dazu, vor allem mit Mirinda Otto als kühle Eowyn und Karl Urban als Eomer, und die verwendeten technischen Effekts und künstlich erzeugten Wesen sind phanstastisch, angefangen mit Gollum bis hin zu den Warg-Reitern. Peter Jackson hätte das Zeug dazu, auch noch "Der kleine Hobbit" und das "Simarillon" auf Leinwand zu bannen, ich würde gerne die Bilder seiner verfilmten Version dieser beiden phantastischen Bücher sehen. Nur wird er das vermutlich leider nie tun ...
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