DVD Planet.com came through again, delivering my Two Towers Extended Edition last night, and I’ve stayed up way too late getting all the way up to about halfway through disc three. My reaction isn’t as strong as with last year’s special edition. Then, the added scenes helped restore some of the things I missed from the book; here, the added scenes are mostly original additions, and the scenes I didn’t like in the theatrical version (the Easterlings not seeing Sam and Frodo fall down a mountain, Frodo offering the Ring to a Nazgûl, and, yes [try as they might to defend it] Faramir’s useless &8220;character development&8221;) still bug me.Nevertheless, despite some story problems, the movies are an amazing achievement, and discs three and four ably demonstrate the skill and artistry that went into creating them.
And besides how can I truly fault a movie that has my name in the credits?
How come nobody’s tried to join as, oh, Ian McKellem or Elijah Woode or Veggo Mortinson?
I would expect the Decipher staff were on the lookout for suspicious names when the offer was first made available.
Actually Elijah Wood has membership number 1, although his membership was given to him. “Sir Ian McKellen” is also listed. Viggo is not, but I think his son is.