Yes, I found the movie to have a rushed feel, particularly the beginning, with P.J.s rather shabby treatment of Christopher Lee's character. I'm sorry, but that was just plain wrong, and I can see no reason for doing it, short of saving the space for many cool scenes of slaying oliphants.<P>I also found peculiar P.J.'s decision to throw Smeagol's "flashback" scene, willy-nilly, in at the beginning of the film. Why not have kept this where it was originally intended to go; during the scene in the Dead Marshes when Frodo first calls Gollum by his original, lost name.<P>I'm just catching up with the board after the holidays: has anyone else found the Cirith Ungol scenes to be totally rushed? How <I>did</I> all those Orcs wind up dead? If I had never read the books I would have been very confused by this.
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