Don’t be.

Suffice it to say, numerous small liberties and a few large ones have been taken with the storyline, on both sides of the Anduin… This is a necessity, and PJ in his wisdom clearly knew it, and bit the bullet here for the good of the Great Tale as a whole… [the reason for] the change is fairly clear: Timing…

Grab your paperback copy of “The Return of the King.” Find the page that begins the appendices. Now measure the actual book’s thickness against “Fellowship” and the Two Towers.” There’s the problem.

Could you sell three films, one that runs three hours, one that runs four hours and the last one that runs about 80 minutes? Aha….

The Changes in The Two Towers Leave Us In Almost Exactly The Same Place That Total Faithfulness Would Have Done. The remainder of the book versions of The Two Towers and The Return of the King can proceed on film next year, and give us what all of us knew would be the trilogy’s greatest installment, all along: the Finale.

Sorry about the long quote, but all of that needed to be there. It sounds to me like there are some major changes, but the net effect is to leave us ready for a great third installment that can remain faithful to the book.

In the end, **I trust Peter**!

Yet another great review!

I cannot give high enough praise to this film. It is the year’s best film, and a milestone in cinema history….

I cannot give high enough praise to this film. It is the year’s best film, and a milestone in cinema history.

Only a couple more weeks!!!

Talk about gushing!

There’s some with spoilers, and some without. I’ve included the summaries here.

Well on its way to becoming one of the greatest achievements in cinema history with last year’s Oscar-winning first installment, filmmaker Peter Jackson’s grand realization of “The Lord of Rings” epic by J.R.R. Tolkien continues with “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.”

This is very interesting.

IBM will pay $2.1 billion in cash to acquire development tool maker Rational Software, the companies said Friday.

I don’t really understand this. What could [[Rational]] have that would benefit IBM except a good bottom line?

Good for the customers!

CNN.com is reporting that sales of the $199 PCs have exceeded expectations. Although CNN terms them “full fledged, if low power,” it seems customers don’d mind all that much if their computer does not run Windows and doesn’t carry an Intel processor.

People are starting to see. You don’t really *need* [[M$]] stuff!

Sony is dumping [[M$]]in Europe.

Sun Microsystems announced a deal Wednesday to install Sun’s StarOffice software on some European Sony PCs, marking another defection from dominant Microsoft products.

Yahoo! Another victory!

He’s got the comparison correct

A federal judge on Thursday compared Microsoft’s behavior toward Sun Microsystems to the 1994 knee-clubbing of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan.

The question is, when will the government put it all together and see [[M$]] for what it is… a parasite on our society!

This comes from the **We Can Only Hope** department.

Microsoft Chief Financial Officer John Connors said on Wednesday that the software giant’s future growth would be hurt if the rival Linux operating system was to establish a foothold on desktop computers.

If the last review was great, this one is just GUSHING!

An absolute masterpiece is at hand. With the second chapter under our wings, we shall soon have the one of the greatest stories ever to be told in the greatest cinematic form that we could have ever hoped for. This movie truly does justice to the books that inspired it.

***MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!***

More great comments on the movie. I can’t wait to see it!!!!

What has impresses me specifically with the film is that it increases the scope, but never loses the human element of the story. Like the first film, TOWERS ends on a character note as opposed to a cliffhanger moment. I think that Jackson has improved the story of the books and has given Middle Earth a tangible place.

High praise indeed!