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 (previously at Neatorama), Screen Junkies is taking a cockeyed look at them, one at a time. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is like many middle trilogy episodes, dark and violent, and downright depressing in places, to build the suspense for a triumphant end in the next film. Yeah, there's plenty of backstabbing and bloody warfare, but also a few new components. There's Gollum, which, thanks to motion capture, comes surprisingly close to your disgusting vision of him from the books. There are the ents, who came from The Wizard of Oz and then went on to give us Groot. And there's a thirsty focus on Aragorn, because the first movie was pretty ambiguous about making him the hero. But Saruman gets the best joke in this Honest Trailer.
