The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers

31 August 2015

The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers 2002

• Director: Peter Jackson
• Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Bernard Hill, Viggo Mortenson, Sean Bean, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Miranda Otto, Liv Tyler, Robyn Malcolm
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in (most of them were in the Hobbit/Rings movies too):
• Elijah Wood  – The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Everything is Illuminated, Paris je t’aime, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Black and White, The Ice Storm
• Ian McKellen – Vicious, King Lear, Extras, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, David Copperfield, Richard III, Cold Comfort Farm, Six Degrees of Separation, The Ballad of Little Jo, Macbeth, Othello
• Cate Blanchett – Robin Hood, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I’m Not There, Notes on a Scandal, Babel, Little Fish, The Aviator, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Heaven, The Shipping News, The Gift, The Man Who Cried, Elizabeth, Elizabeth the Golden Age
• Orlando Bloom – the  Pirates of the Caribbean films,Extras, Troy, The Lord of the Rings triolgy, Ned Kelly, Wilde
• Bernard Hill – Wolf Hall, Valkyria, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titanic, Shirley Valentine, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, Richard III, Gandhi,  I Claudius
• Sean Bean – The Lord of the Rings trilogy, North Country, The Island, Troy, Golden Eye, Equilibrium, Stormy Monday
• Viggo Mortenson - The Road, A History of Violence, Hidalgo, Lord of the Rings, Twenty-Eight Days, A Perfect Murder, Carlito’s Way, The Indian Runner, Witness, Ruby Cairo
• Billy Boyd – on stage at the Globe in Macbeth, Stone of Destiny, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Liv Tyler – Lonesome Jim, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Miranda Otto – The War of the Worlds, The Thin Red Line
• Robyn Malcolm – Top of the Lake
•  Why? Continuing the 6-part marathon
• Seen: Once before. Now 28 August 2015 

       More of the same but better. I don’t detect much of a story and it is still pretentious but either I’ve got used to it all or it is actually better. I enjoy it but it’s just too ling. With more stringent editing it would have got 3 ½ * or even 4* but as it is

3* of 5