The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Howard Shore’s music for the massively successful first film chapter of Tolkien’s Ring saga won him the Oscar® for Best Original Score, something of a surprise given the music’s ambitious scale and determinedly dark overtones, factors that handily blurred the line between typical film fantasy music and accomplished concert work. Its sequel takes the same, often Wagnerian-scaled dramatic tack, following the film’s story line into even more brooding and ominous dark corners. … More >>
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
I’m sorry but when I was sitting in the theatre and the trailer for Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers came on and they played a digitized version of Clint Mansell’s Summer Overture found on the 1999 movie Requiem for a Dream. I look at this soundtrack to see if he was the one that had conducted this one as well but sadly the credit was given to another. So i am very disgruntled and bitter toward anyone who had any part or supports this way of ripping off true artists. Thank you and to make my review credible listen to Summer Overture by Clint Mansell. I’m a very big fan of his work on this movie so thats why i’m writing this.
Rating: 1 / 5
As soundtrack albums go, this one is good enough. It isn’t particularly innovative, but it serves its purpose well. However, as one review noted, the music that accompanies the trailer is not found on the disc. This is probably because it is BLATANTLY stolen from the much better soundtrack to the great Requiem For a Dream.
Rating: 3 / 5
HOWARD STONE IN AN INTERVIEW ON THE EXTENDED DVD SAYS..”THIS SCORE IS LIKE WRITING AN OPERA.” WELL HE IS DOING JUST THAT. IF YOU LIKE OPERA YOU WILL LIKE THIS SOUNDTRACK.
I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, I WISH PETER JACKSON HAD USED THE TALENTS OF DAVID ARKENSTONE FOR THIS SOUNDTRACK. IF NOT DAVID THEN JOHN WILLIAMS. JUST COMPARE THE SOUNDTRACKS OF THESE TWO MOVIES (THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING AND THE TWO TOWERS) WITH THE SOUNDTRACKS OF BOTH “HARRY POTTER” MOVIES. EVEN THOUGH THE SCORE FOR THE “RING” MOVIES IS MUCH MORE CLASSICAL IT IS MUCH TOO OPERA FOR THIS MUSIC LOVER.
JOHN WILLIAMS BRINGS MUCH MORE “RICHNESS” TO A SOUNDTRACK AND MAKES IT SEEM MORE A PART OF THE MOVIE THAN DOES HOWARD STONE.
Rating: 3 / 5
First, just because a movie is good doesn’t automatically make a soundtrack worthwhile. I try to give objective review of soundtracks, judging them on two issues:
1. How does the music integrate with the movie?
2. How does the music sound on its own?
The music in the two towers was well integrated with the move; it rounded out the battles, dark sequences and quaintness of the hobbits etc… (I ought to know, having seen the movie three times)
However, on its own, the music in this soundtrack form just doesn’t impress me. I liked the last one (Fellowship) more, because it had the quaint music of the hobbits, which would stay focused, but this one tends to ramble along, changing haphazardly from theme to theme as the camera moves around.
I think that, to a point, this track is overrated by people who just loved the movie. This doesn’t happen with every movie, but many fantasy/science fiction films get die hard fans, and this movie has an extra dose of them. (kind of like “trekkies”) I have some friends who love this movie to the exclusion of others. I have seen “frodo_4’s” and “lotr_fan’s” on movie forums saying things like, “The lotr is more emotional than schindler’s list.”
Sorry, Frodo_4, but you may need to get over it…
sorry to break this to you, but you know this issue of good and evil? It HAS been tackled before, and it will be tackled again.
THE LOTR is NOT the first “worthwhile epic” etc…
Anyways, back to the soundtrack; it really is not that awesome, although it is quite well integrated with the movie…
Go pick up a John Williams soundtrack…
Much better, and theres tons of ‘em
Rating: 2 / 5
An overrated soundtrack. I didn’t care much for the Fellowship or the Return of the King, but the Two Towers is the worst of the bunch. I suppose fans of the movie will appreciate this CD, but it’s just not a very good soundtrack. Boring, tenuous vocals, cliched, blah, blah. For those interested in really good soundtracks, go pick up a copy of Ennio Morricone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, Bernard Hermann’s VERTIGO, or ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS…SIGNATURES IN SUSPENSE.
Rating: 3 / 5