Movie of the Year: 2002 – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

By Greg | June 15, 2023

Movie of the Year: 2002

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Can The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers unite all our panelists and become 2002 Movie of the Year?

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a movie that asks, “What if our enemies are actually so bad that we can do whatever we want to them and even treat it like a little game?” We probe what director Peter Jackson brought to this project that only he could before we delve into the difficulties of telling the second part of a three part story. But we do eventually shift gears to ask ourselves what this movie says about the struggle of good versus evil, how that message resonated in 2002, and what it means to us now in the enlightened year of 2023.

Also, we build a mountain of Rushmore 2002 babies, struggle through some arduous The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trivia and then hand out awards like it’s nobodies business, which it isn’t, dad!

All this AND the stuff that I forgot to mention!

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