Yes, they did seem to want Gollum to appear super evil. Maybe they realized that they made him too fluffy in TTT. Everyone I knew who hadn't read the book thought Gollum was so cute and wanted to own him as some kind of pet!? Anyways, with the Smeagol/Deagol scene and then the scene by the water and then the lembas and then Shelob it was kind of overkill..but maybe PJ and co. felt that they had to kind of over compensate to make him seem evil and treacherus. As for the Sam and Frodo scene, I wholeheartedly agree, as does my friend who also read the books, that Sam would never leave Frodo. I didn't enjoy that they had to paint the situation in black and white like that.
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