Aha! Found it. Thanks, Tom.
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§ ita § - Jan 06, 2011 5:21:19 am PST #12697 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tom Scola - Jan 06, 2011 5:22:48 am PST #12698 of 30000
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None of the films along the bottom left side were any good. It's just that TBNBGTJ was the worst compared to the original.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 06, 2011 5:44:11 am PST #12699 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
How is CURSE OF THE WERERABBIT a sequel?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 06, 2011 5:58:08 am PST #12700 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
They considered LotR: The Two Towers an improvement over the first movie?!?
Tom Scola - Jan 06, 2011 5:58:43 am PST #12701 of 30000
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I thought it was.
Gris - Jan 06, 2011 6:13:49 am PST #12702 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Rotten Tomatoes did, which means that fewer people outright didn't like it. But metacritic didn't, which means that those that did like it gave it, on average, lower scores. Which makes sense to me - Fellowship is, imho, a better movie but less viscerally satisfying (fewer exciting action sequences), so I can see some people getting bored by Fellowhip but enjoying Two Towers enough to give it "fresh", if not a super-high score.
The real story on that one is that they both got really good reviews across the board, which is why the difference is so small.
Amy - Jan 06, 2011 6:15:18 am PST #12703 of 30000
Because books.
The Two Towers always felt like the draggy middle part to me, although there are some excellent moments in it.
Polter-Cow - Jan 06, 2011 6:23:01 am PST #12704 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That was my favorite of the three.
amych - Jan 06, 2011 11:42:33 am PST #12705 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I enjoyed all of the trilogy on first viewing, but whenever I rewatch, Fellowship still stands as a great movie even though it's clear that it's a Part I and not freestanding. The Two Towers feels like a 4-hour movie that somehow manages to fit 87 hours into the middle half. And RotK just gags me with all the great white king and savior and destiny and Jesus Sue.
Consuela - Jan 06, 2011 11:58:12 am PST #12706 of 30000
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I can forgive RoTK an awful lot for the beacons of Minas Tirith, and the charge of the Rohirrim.