Movie Minx

Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellin etc
Directed by: Peter Jackson

Plot: Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.

But is it any good?

As a Kiwi, it’s a mix for me between pride in my country for being involved in the creation of such a world-renowned trilogy and just being completely over it. I should make clear that I have only read the first book in the trilogy and I didn’t really like it much (love The Hobbit, though). Yes, I have seen all three films, once each, when they were released. And I like Two Towers the second-best.

Why? Well, it introduces Gollum, my favourite character. He has everything: in parts cute, in parts utterly repulsive. He’s CGI but seems so natural. His acting is way better than the others’ (apart from maybe Sir Ian). It’s a shame Andy Serkis couldn’t be nominated for acting awards. Like it was a shame Wilson the ball couldn’t be nominated for Cast Away.

But then this movie also has the Tree People and they’re annoying.

It’s a solid ‘middle’ episode. Visually stunning like the others and from what I can tell (having not read all the books) a brilliant job was done in adapting such a complicated story.

There are still two more to come in my list so I’ll stop here. Like they say in Clerks 2: “All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a fucking volcano.” This may be just part two of people walking to the fucking volcano, but it introduces Gollum! So…

Imdb’s rating: 8.6/10
My rating: 8.5/10

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