Yes, Faramir was rather demeaned in the movies. But there are whole other threads on that, I'm sure.
Anguirel makes a good point. I admit that it become much easier to find fault with him after the raving fan girls started. It was sort of a knee jerk reaction for fan girl/boy haters, such as myself. (Really, people, the Capt. Obvious joke is overdone. For heavens sake, lets remember the audience this was directed at. Not everyone might have gotten the point. And it happened
once, that I'm aware. Hardly condeming.)
My only true" beef" if you will is with the Oliphaunt, the stair surfing, and the horse trick, the last of which couldn't make up for itself with even looking cool. At least the first too had the initial, "Woah, I wasn't expecting kick*** moves like that," before the, "Wait a minute, what is he, Tonk Hawk?"
Also, if anyone here saw Disney's Tarzan, that part where our loin-clothed hero slides through the tree branches looks remarkably like the Oliphaunt trunk-sliding Legolas. That sequence, according to the artists, was speciffically designed to look like surfing/skating. Coincidence? Most likely, but you never know.
