The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
I have been meaning to rewatch LOTR for a while, but never seem to get around to it. It has been years since last time and I think rewatching fellowship yet again held me back. It is probably the first one I have seen the most as you always start there. However, there is no good reason to always do that and I really enjoyed just jumping straight into the second movie. Just to sort of “feel the atmosphere” of Middle Earth again. Often seen as just the middle movie, I came to like it more this time around. I had forgotten how bleak and full of despair it actually is. Fellowship is still mostly the beginning of an adventure, whereas here we get a proper sense of how the coming war affects regular people. We see families torn apart, villages burned to the ground and families filled with terror of what is to come.
I also opted for the theatrical cut, which I haven’t seen since release in 2002. I didn’t feel I was missing much really. The extended editions are after all not a director’s cut, just simply “more”.
Rating: 5