The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Ah, the second Lord of the Rings movie – also known as the one in which nothing happens. Ironically, it’s for that exact reason the second installment is my favorite. Since nothing happens, there are no awful violent scenes to worry about, and no one who gets killed when you didn’t want them to. I still miss Sean Bean. But the rest of the cast, from Elijah Wood to Cate Blanchett to Christopher Lee, still continues the journey. Treasure this movie; in the third movie, all bets are off for the remaining cast.
“Po-ta-toes!” Sean Astin’s indelible explanation of the versatile food to Gollum/Smeagol gets repeated quite often at dinnertime in my house, nearly twenty years later. It’s such a fun part of the story, to see the conflict within the little creature as he vacillates between behaving himself as Smeagol and becoming corrupted by the ring as Gollum. I like the relaxed pace of this movie, even though if you watch the first and last five minutes, you’ll get precisely the same amount of information. Those who find the fighting scenes the most entertaining probably hate this one, but us lightweights love it.
More Cate Blanchett movies here!
“Po-ta-toes!” Sean Astin’s indelible explanation of the versatile food to Gollum/Smeagol gets repeated quite often at dinnertime in my house, nearly twenty years later. It’s such a fun part of the story, to see the conflict within the little creature as he vacillates between behaving himself as Smeagol and becoming corrupted by the ring as Gollum. I like the relaxed pace of this movie, even though if you watch the first and last five minutes, you’ll get precisely the same amount of information. Those who find the fighting scenes the most entertaining probably hate this one, but us lightweights love it.
More Cate Blanchett movies here!