There are two mindsets at battle when considering the success of The Two Towers, the second
installment of the filmed adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which I am now fairly convinced that when seen as a whole will be one of the most important and potent films in the history of cinema.
Not exact matches
This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion
of blockbuster season as a handful
of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel
adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games
installment.
Nothing on Lionsgate's 2014 schedule
of YA novel
adaptations, horror, and other genre
films suggests that the studio is going to start churning out critically praised
films, but with another Hunger Games
installment due this year, the studio should remain in the green financially, if not score-wise.
While both
installments were treated as thematically and stylistically separate entities, as opposed to a single finale story that was just split in half and to be continued, the exclusion
of certain plot points from both books made both
film adaptations feel as though they were lacking in emotion.
«The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I,» which is the third
installment in the acclaimed
film adaptation series
of the hit «Hunger Games» book trilogy, is set to open on November 21 in theaters nationwide.
Unlike traditional book to screen
adaptations, this
film doesn't specifically focus on one
installment of the series, but rather takes elements from practically all
of them.
In The Hobbit: The Battle
of the Five Armies, the final
installment of the three - part
film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the dragon Smaug abandons his cave
of treasures to unleash his wrath upon the hapless inhabitants
of Lake -...
In The Hobbit: The Battle
of the Five Armies, the final
installment of the three - part
film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the dragon Smaug abandons his cave
of treasures to unleash his wrath upon the hapless inhabitants
of Lake -... more
In the second
installment of Peter Jackson's epic
adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's «The Lord
of the Rings,» the franchise exceeds the majestic heights achieved a year ago by the first
film of the series.
My lukewarm reaction to the second
installment in Suzanne Collins» «Hunger Games» trilogy is almost completely due to that reason alone, because the concept feels more like a lazy rehash than a continuation
of the story, although curiously, that isn't the case with the
film adaptation.