This is the first of what I hope will be a summer of reviews. I highly doubt this but I’m going to say it anyway. First on the agenda is Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, this may seem like an odd choicebut it just happens to be the last the film I watched. I had been meaning toget hold of the blu-ray trilogy for a while, and I managed to, just this week. After deciding I wanted to skip the first film because it takes so long for anythingto actually happen, by which I mean awesome battle scenes, I went with the Two Towers instead.
If you don’t know what the Two Towers is about then leave this page and head immediately to www.cave-dweller.com,you will find your own kin there. Obviously you want to know if blu-ray makes adifference, well of course it does. Does it make that much of a difference? No it does not. It is in my opinion that pre-Avatar CGI (and some post), is just…crap.Looking at Golem in HD, is like a close up of an old man’s prostate, it is justreally depressing, kind of intriguing, and then you start to feel your humanityslipping away. Do this for close to 4 hours and suicide by Dorito becomes a strangelyattractive option. The length of this film however, is not actually an issue. Itis certainly long and bum-numbing but a lot happens in that time, sure thereare a variety of stupid scenes where someone has a dream with absolutely nomeaning, perhaps we have to see Frodo walking around really depressed for toolong. But you probably already know that.
The best bit of this film is the second half, here we havethe lead up to the big battle at what reminds me of
something I onceconstructed at nursery school, we have the stirring arrival of the cavalry justwhen all seems lost, and best of all we have that light humour that’s introducedbetween Orlando Bloom and the little ginger thing. It is here that you realisethat the quality of the picture becomes secondary, and I say that as a picture qualitysnob, the definition only goes to compliment what is the a great half a film.
So what im really trying to say is, buy the LoR blu-ray trilogy.
