I didn't really mind so much the fireball. What kind of got to me was that I thought the scene was too short. As in the book Saruman should have tried seducing Gandalf. But for plain movie goers, that might have taken a bit too long. What I thought was a little ridiculous was how Gandalf was begging Saruman to know where Sauron was going to strike. When I saw FOTR three years ago, I knew next to nothing about LOTR, and by the end of the movie, even I knew that in ROTK, the final battle would take place in Gondor, whatever that was. And to make matters worse, they even say so in TTT. And isn't it pretty obvious, since Sauron lives right next to Gondor. I mean what's he going to do, sneak hundreds of miles to go attack Dale or something, when the greatest kingdom of Men is right in front of him? In the books I got the impression that Gandalf just wanted to know Sauron's plan for attack, and more importantly when. I'm very sure that Gandalf had known for a very long time that it would be in Minas Tirith. So in the movie it just seems kind out odd that Gandalf has no clue and needs Saurman to tell him. But I really didn't mind the fireball...
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