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Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim
This fire from Isengard bit really does make the viewer wonder Why didn't they just make a bunch of bombs and blast the place to smithereens? I guess that's a problem with fantasy.
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Not sure what you mean. Are you saying that Saruman should have made more bombs and obliterated Helm's Deep? There may be two reasons for that: one, he may have been limited on how much explosives he could generate within a specific time - that mud and minerals were for hatching Uruks, not for gunpowder, and he also may have wanted to preserve as much of Helm's Deep's structure as possible, in case he would need it later when dealing with human stragglers or Sauron's troops
. Plus, in movieland, we cannot have a heroic struggle when the whole place goes BOOM after the first few minutes - PJ's onslaught was more than enough.
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And I think this would have been a perfect opportunity for Gimli to really prove himself as a dangerous warrior. He just seems to wander about the field not doing much, or sticking his axe into an already-prone Warg (incidentally, those Wargs are a shocking reflection on the most noble race  ).
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He gets a chop or two into a standing Uruk/berserker now and again. I'm not sure why PJ did not overtly show how Dwarves were different, like he did with the Elves. We get hints, like when Gimli withstands the crushing weight of two Wargs and an Orc, and that they have zero-tolerance for beer.
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Legolas got his "Look at me! I'm killing 100 men all by myself!" moment in RotK; Gimli could have got a bit of a rub in TTT.
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I would agree. It would have been cool to see Gimli show how Dwarves were different, beyond being silly and infatuated with body noises.