Merry and Pippin spend a climactic stretch of the movie riding in Treebeard's branches and looking goggle-eyed at everything, like children carried on their father's shoulders. Sam is his loyal sidekick on the sidelines. Frodo, the nominal hero, spends much of his time peering over and around things, watching others decide his fate, and occasionally gazing significantly upon the Ring. All of the major figures are sketched with an attribute or two, and then defined by their actions. What one misses in the thrills of these epic splendors is much depth in the characters. Peter Jackson, like some of the great silent directors, is unafraid to use his entire screen, to present images of wide scope and great complexity. When Aragorn and his comrades launch an attack down a narrow fortress bridge, we know that the figures toppling to their doom are computer-generated, along with everything else on the screen, and yet the impact of the action is undeniable. There are long stretches of "The Two Towers" in which we are looking at mostly animation on the screen. Aragorn joins bravely in the fray, but the real heroes are the computer effects, which create the castle, landscape, armies and most of the action. To compress the labyrinthine story into a sentence or two, the enemy is Saruman ( Christopher Lee), who commands a vast army of Uruk-Hai warriors against the fortress of Theoden ( Bernard Hill). The film opens with a brief reprise of the great battle between Gandalf ( Ian McKellen) and Balrog, the monster made of fire and smoke, and is faithful to the ancient tradition of movie serials by showing us that victory is snatched from certain death, as Gandalf extinguishes the creature and becomes in the process Gandalf the White. I would have guessed that a walking, talking tree would look silly and break the spell of the movie, but no, there is a certain majesty in this mossy old creature. The film introduces another computer-generated character, Treebeard, a member of the most ancient race in Middle-Earth, a tree that walks and talks and takes a very long time to make up its mind, explaining to Merry and Pippin that slowness is a virtue. His body language is a choreography of ingratiation and distortion. The Gollum was long in possession of the Ring, now entrusted to Frodo, and misses it ("my precious") most painfully but he has a split personality and (in between spells when his dark side takes over) serves as a guide and companion for Frodo ( Elijah Wood) and Sam ( Sean Astin). ![]() It also gives us, in a character named the Gollum, one of the most engaging and convincing CGI creatures I've seen. "The Two Towers" is a rousing adventure, a skillful marriage of special effects and computer animation, and it contains sequences of breathtaking beauty. I complained in my review of the first film that the hobbits had been short-changed, but with this second film I must accept that as a given, and go on from there. "The Two Towers" is one of the most spectacular swashbucklers ever made, and, given current audience tastes in violence, may well be more popular than the first installment, "The Fellowship of the Ring." It is not faithful to the spirit of Tolkien and misplaces much of the charm and whimsy of the books, but it stands on its own as a visionary thriller. The task of the critic is to decide whether this shift damages the movie. ![]() The last third of the movie is dominated by an epic battle scene that would no doubt startle the gentle medievalist J.R.R. The star is now clearly Aragorn ( Viggo Mortensen), and the hobbits spend much of the movie away from the action. With "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," it's clear that director Peter Jackson has tilted the balance decisively against the hobbits and in favor of the traditional action heroes of the Tolkien trilogy.
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![]() Do they have a place in your home? Read on to explore why and how you should add them to your windows. Window grids look sophisticated and refined. The secret is to DIY it! Adding window grids to your existing windows, for example, is cheap and adds old-world charm to your whole home. Windows, just like any other home improvement project, can be changed to fit your style without having to spend a lot of money. Furthermore, the style windows you always dreamed about may be out of your budget range. Unfortunately, as any homeowner knows, new windows are a costly endeavor. Old windows do drag a place down and can make it look dated and drab. You have a lot of options available, and your window installer can help you determine your home’s best look.Love your home but feel stuck with the boring windows that you have? Think again! Because grid windows are stylish, they’re best used as a home’s presentation. 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Old Mark tells the Captain to make sure Mark never uses the Warp Core at all, and the Captain travels across universes of different kinds to find a solution.Īfter travelling through many universes, the multiverse is close to destruction, and the Captain finds themselves back at the now desolate and empty diner. Old Mark apologizes to the Captain for messing things up, and realizes that the solution is him not trying to fix it in the first place. Stan tries to read a bedtime story (which can be horror or romance, depending on the viewer's choices) that is shown in a form similar to Markiplier's interactive films - the story gets corrupted and the Captain is sent to a diner where they meet Old Mark. The universal reboot loading bar finishes and the opening of Part 1 begins again, but many glitches happen which causes the captain to be sent into another universe where they are the child of Stan the Water Man, where it is implied that the previous events are just a nightmare the child experienced. If the Captain recieves the common universal collapse ending, a loading bar is shown rebooting the universe. ![]() In a rare ending, the Captain decides to freeze indefinitely in a cryo chamber, although they are later discovered by explorer Illinois, who mistakes the Captain for a mummy and locks them back in. There are two possible endings to part 1, with the most common being the Captain encountering an older Mark who accidentally starts a universal collapse from a failed attempt to solve the paradox caused from previous events. The story progresses in multiple different ways, in which the Captain encounters different characters, including the alien Wug, a mysterious Lady hunting them down in search of answers, and a Bandit who gives the Captain a Warp Device. The two find themselves back on the ship, with Mark now aware of the multiverse. Mark finds the Captain as the latter is about to jump into the wormhole, and the two fall into it before the Captain encounters the Warp Core. There are a total of 5 endings that can be gotten, before the Captain "goes towards the light", although they are sent back again. It is possible that the Captain makes a bad choice and ends up dying this ends up having them being sent back by a wormhole to when they woke up in their cryo chamber. The Captain is sent through a wormhole, wakes up, and is ejected from the chamber while the ship is in the catastrophic state, leading to them trying to fix the problems. However, the warp core suddenly engages, which causes the Captain and the rest of the crew to enter the cryo chambers. Mark, the creator of the ship, takes the Captain on a tour on around the ship, and introduces the crew. The interactive film begins with the Captain arriving at the Invincible II. When a multiversal crisis begins as a result, things are not quite what they seem. ![]() Not too long after the captain arrives, issues on the ship surface. In Space with Markiplier stars the viewer as a captain of a ship named Invincible II. The first part released on April 4, 2022, coinciding with Mark's ten year YouTube anniversary, and the second released on May 2, 2022. ![]() In Space with Markiplier (abbreviated as ISWM) is a 2022 YouTube Originals two-part interactive science fiction comedy film written and directed by Mark Fischbach and a sequel to A Heist with Markiplier. In Space with Markiplier title card, as seen in the first teaser Only remove this template once the work has been completed. This article is currently under development. Perhaps I’m not listening hard enough, but then again, not listening carefully is sort of the point. Some of the reviewers on the Mac App Store complain about gaps in the loops, but I haven’t noticed any issues there. And those with some ocean experience might appreciate a combination of Sea Waves and Sailing Yacht. Some people will undoubtedly like the muted bustle of Coffee House, or the repetitive clickety-clack of Inside Train. ![]() I’m also testing a mixture that’s mostly Campfire with just a few of the cicadas from Summer Night thrown in, but I find myself yawning when it’s on.īut that’s just me. While writing this article, I created another mixture that combines October Rain, Thunderstorm, and Summer Night, but all those water sounds make me want to visit the bathroom. At least to my ears, it sounds great - when I close my eyes, it’s easy to imagine the chickens scratching for bugs in the dirt and the cows ambling through the field below the house. My preferred mixture is heavy on the bird songs in Sunny Day, with about half a dose of On The Farm, and just a touch of a creek in the distance courtesy of River Stream. I must confess a certain lack of variability in my own usage. It’s easy to save and switch between these soundscapes. You might like just one of these sounds, but what sets Noizio apart is that you can combine multiple options into a personalized mixture, even blending the different sounds at different levels. Click a sound’s icon to enable or disable it, and move its slider to set how loud the sound should be. It offers 15 different ambient sounds that play in seamless loops: October Rain, Coffee House, Thunderstorm, Campfire, Winter Wind, Sea Waves, River Stream, Summer Night, Sunny Day, Deep Space, Sailing Yacht, Inside Train, On The Farm, Wind Chimes, and Blue Whales. Spotify and competing services like Apple Music have plenty of tracks of thunderstorms, waves, and birds, but finding something appropriate is a serious rabbit hole.Įnter Noizio, a Mac and iOS app that I stumbled across recently. (This is, of course, selective nostalgia - making hay is hard, dirty, noisy work - so I beg your dispensation for some poetic license.) While I like listening to music in Spotify, there are times when I just want some background sounds that won’t distract me from what I’m writing. I’m a country boy, and while I don’t exactly live in the big city now, working at a Mac all day doesn’t provide the ambience I remember from summer days on the farm. #1620: OS updates, AssistiveTouch for iOS shortcut palette, Photos album sharing bug. ![]()
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