Faramir to blame for TTT’s box office stats
The Two Towers leaves theatres with $45 million, $1 million less than The Fellowship of the Ring. Considering the grander scale of the second film, why is it that it still fell short of Fellowship?
SMH blames the changes in Faramir’s character.
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I don’t think it’d just be Faramirs character. I’m sure a lot of people haven’t read the book and saw the movie. It worked well with the movie in my opinion so I don’t think it could have been a huge impact.
It could’ve just been some people saw FOTR and not liked it and so didn’t watch TTT.
The changes regarding Faramir’s character didn’t keep me from going back to the movies even though I didn’t agree with the change. The change might have put off a few people, but not a million dollars worth of ticket sales. Faramir isn’t to blame.
Ouch! I don’t think you can totally blame Faramir…I personally just didn’t like TTT as much as FoTR..saw FoTR 13 times in the theaters, I’ve seen TTT only 6 times so far. Plus I suspect a lot of people have gotten their hands on illegal copies and just aren’t flocking to the theater, and if that report that there will be no RoTK teaser coming out this month is true, that’s really going to pound ticket sales.
I’m guessing the $45 million is Australia’s amount only?
I know I didn’t see TTT as many times as FotR (3 times vs. 12). I just didn’t it like it as much, for various reasons. It’s actually my favorite of the books, but the changes to certain characters, as well as just the overall _feel_ of the movie just made it so that I’m not interested in seeing it as much. For me, FotR was an emotional and almost spiritual experience. TTT focused too heavily on Helm’s Deep (neat as it was) and the pace just felt off, and not as magical, for some reason. I still enjoyed it, of course — just not enough to see it a dozen times in the theater.
While I was hesitant about the changes in his character, they didn’t detour me at all from seeing TTT nine times (as opposed to seven for FotR). I think it’s silly to put it all on one character, especially since the changes weren’t so drastic that they kept him from being redeemed in the end.
I’d blame it more on the darker, more ominous tone of the film. Since it’s the second in a trilogy, there is no beginning and there is no real end, so you’re just thrown immediately into peril and left in danger and it’s more than a little depressing. Not everyone wants to deal with three hours of despair.
Poor Faramir. The guy just can’t get a break, can he? *hugs Faramir*
I don’t think it was Faramir that made TTT not get as much money. When i first saw the movie, I haven’t yet read the 2nd book, so I thought that his character in the book was the same in the movie. After I saw the movie two times, my dad told me that Faramirs character was different.
So, I read The Two Towers. I didn’t mind the changes they made. It might have made some people mad, but it didn’t stop me from seeing it 3 times.
well I’m not sure it’s Faramir’s fault… FoTR was rather violent (a lot of battle) and it’s possible that some poeple who don’t like violence didn’t want to see TTT. Even in the trailers, you could see a lot of scenes of battle so….
I seriously doubt it. Controversy is *good* for box office.
Faramir is my favorite character, and on first viewing I was horrified at what they had done with him. But I’ve gone back to see TTT twice more to study exactly what’s been done to the character and test out theories. That’s two more times than I saw FOTR in the theaters, and I’m considering a fourth visit during the second run. (As it happens, I now have hope that he’ll make sense and not be quite so changed after all when the cut scenes are restored for the extended DVD edition … fingers crossed!)
You can’t just blame one character for a movie’s shortcomings. I mean, people were upset that there was no Tom Bombadil in FOTR, but that didn’t keep them from watching the movie.
I think a reason why TTT fell short was b/c some people were discouraged by FOTR. I took my brother and his friends to FOTR, and they couldn’t sit through it. People fail to recognize that it needed to have a lot of introductory material. When we went to go see TTT, it was only my brother and a different friend. His other friends had already made up their minds about Lord of the Rings, but my brother enjoyed TTT so much that he changed his opinion.
I didn’t see the movie just for Faramir and I would not not see the movie for just Faramir. I believe that because TT is the ‘second part’ of a movie, it would be harder for people to ‘pick up’ in the middle if they had not seen FotR, thus not a lot of people came. Besides, I have a lot of friends who saw FotR because of the hype but hated it (and yes, they are still my friends), hence, if there were more of these people, they would have no reason to go and see TT. To say that because of one character, people did not go and see the movie is wrong. Then, it would also be equally wrong to say that I saw the movie for another character as well. A movie should be considered as a whole, and not just one little segment/character. Think of it as a balance. Also, with inflation costs, that may have been why less people went out to see the movie. With the looming threat of war in Iraq, maybe people just wanted to spend time and home, and with a cold winter in America. A combination of factors that MAY include Faramir (frankly, I don’t mind Faramir).
I love the books and i love the movies, i also thought that what they did to Faramirs character was awesome. my reasoning for not liking the two towers as much had absolutely nothing to do with his character, but rather to do with the fact that over half of the book was about Merry and Pippin, but the movie hardly mentions them but for a few minutes at a time. Melissa
:o! That is bull. I know a ton of kids who do not understand LoTR at all. Some think it’s boring, or it’s too ‘complicated’. The first movie could have caused less people to see it.