An Honest Trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Since the extended versions of The Lord of the Rings movies are playing in select theaters to commemorate the silver anniversary of the the beginning of the trilogy, Screen Junkies is taking a cockeyed look at them, one at a time. The Two Towers is like many middle trilogy episodes, dark and violent, to build the suspense for the triumphant end in the next film. Yeah, there's plenty of backstabbing and bloody warfare, but also a few newcomponents. There's Gollum, which, thanks to motion capture, comes surprisingly close to your vision of him from the books. There are the ents. And there's a thirsty focus on Aragorn, in case the first movie didn't make clear that he's the hero. But Saruman gets the best joke.