[Blue Elf]

I personally didn't like TTT either. For one, they MANGLED my favorite character, Gollum. A lot of people think he came out great, and, he did. He just isn't the Gollum I pictured. The movie Gollum was nothing more than a sad joke of what the result of the Ring was. They made him laughable, not piteable.<P>The Battle of Helm's Deep was much too long. I could keep ranting about the movie, and my friends think I am over critical of it. Maybe I am. Judging it as a movie alone, as though it was never based off a book, I still do not think highly of it. It was too long and drawn of, too much excessive drama, and a huge hunk of the movie was Helm's Deep. The crane shots there were beautifully done. The close up shots may as well have never been there, because you couldn't tell what was going on.<P>Knowing me, I will come to like the movie a little more, as I did the Fellowship. But I don't know...