Should New Line Cinema and Director Peter Jackson change the title of the 2nd Lord of the Rings film, The Two Towers?

Changing the name of the movie would be asinine.

absurd!

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!

Really, some people are just so fudging hypersensitive.

asinine? Now, is that a word that's been used here before?

Of course not. Maybe the WTC should no longer be referred to as the twin towers since Tolkein wrote his book a long time before these buildings were built.

Knowing it came from a book written so long ago, and having no reference to the attacks in September, I think it would be silly to change the title.

No. Though it already happens, I strongly disagree with those who would bend established literature to the popular sensitivities.

Just leave the gosh darn title alone. How dare these wankers think they have the monopoly on pain and suffering.

The book was written before the event. Who knows maybe the book inspired the buildings in the first place.

Sometimes I just feel like giving intellectually inept people the finger.
I realize "her" intentions are good, like the intentions of the people in charge of images of the twin towers being digitally erased from recent releases and movie scripts being rewritten to excruciating blandness in view of the most recent proof that God really is smoking crack. But I don't agree with them. I'll never condone a movie about September 11th, just like I've never and will never condone a movie about Pearl Harbor, D-Day or anything else. But in a medium already so sugar-coated as film I don't see any need to sugar-coat it any more by pretending stuff never happened. And especially, being that The Two Towers' title refers to the Orthanc and the other tower, the name of which I've forgotten and proves I'm a rather lousy Tolkienite at this moment, goes to show that that is one of the dumbest requests ever made...

No, because that would be silly.

stick with the original book.

No for the reason given above.No because all this banning everything that could suggest the last September tragedy is downright stupid.That's not respect,looks more like a way of shutting down your eyes.The real respect is memory,not forgetting.
Okay maybe they do no want to mix serious matters with entertainment,but it's pretty stupid too.

Every time you type the word *wanker* I'm gonna touch myself!

I'm sorry...What's the connection?

No, because I think the so-called petition to change the title is no more than another internet hoax and that the people who created or signed petitions to stop the alleged name change have been had!

"Should" as in, do they have a moral obligation to?
No.
"Should" as in, is it in their best interest to?
No.

It's safe to assume that the people who want the title changed have minds which are controlled by emotional rather than logical centers. There are advantages and disadvantages to that. However, not even having the logical power to know better than to 'fight' for a cause like that represents pure mal-adaptivity.

wanker wanker wanker *grabs cybercam* wanker wanker *unbuttons trousers and unzips* wanker wanker wanker *releases boxer shorts* wanker wanker wanker...................

It's not a made-up title. It's the title of the book that's been around forever.

No. I think the title makes it all the more poignant. The Lord of the Rings was written by a man who had suffered as a foot-soldier through WWI and finished during WWII (written between approx. 1940 and 1952). It is a story of a war-torn world- the Last Alliance of the races, the gigantic armies and battles, all came from his experience and are woven into a terrific epic story. It's a fantasy story based in horrors of real-life conflicts. The parallels between the worlds in which the powers within the Two Towers of Orthanc and Barad-dur join forces to control the free peoples, and some of the actions going on in our own world are worth discussing, not hiding from.

Oh, you are my favorite!

Why the hell would anybody think there is a relationship between Tolkien's classic work and the Twin Towers? Anybody who thinks that there is has more serious problems than just wanting to change a movie title from a book written in the 50's. The Twin Towers hadn't even been constructed when The Two Towers was published.

I think that the petition in question was a hoax and that the survey creator has been had.

Well phi you are WRONG! You and kate are wrong. I have seen the (now former) petition and so has my Mom.

The petition may have been created as a hoax.

You American Apologist! Of course you'd assume that no American, the same people who think the Brits are retarded for spelling it 'theatre' instead of 'theater,' could POSSIBLY be that stupid to think the Two Towers is a WTC reference.



Just in case the wink didn't give it away, that statement was typed with tounge planted frimly in cheek.

Ain't it funny what kind of things people seem to argue over? Does it really matter?

hel no. Might as well keep doging about the band Anthrax.

And how about that album "bleed American" and "speed kills". Whats up with all those bands changing their names. Have they got no intergrity.

Some people are just to F***ing sensitive and need to get on with their lives and quit bothering the rest of us.