I did the midnight showing, and although it was a great movie, I was disapointed.

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A couple of notes. It seemed to me like they tried to make Gimli the comic relief this movie. Not the counting at Helm's Deep, I thought that was great that they included it. But all sorts of other times.. ie.. too short to see over the wall at Helm's Deep.

The first time Gollum had a dialog with himself. I thought it was just a bit too much over the top. The other two were done much better. But Gollum looked fantastic! The work there was incredible!

Faramir taking Frodo, and Sam to Osgiliath. When reading the book, I developed a hate for Boromir, but not his brother. With them making Faramir giving into the same temptation that his brother did, I started to hate him too. He plays such an important role, and now they have started me hating him. I do wish they would have done that like the book, and let them go of thier own will at the waterfall.

All the flashbacks. Farther into the movie they decreased, but it just seemed to me like there were too many flashbacks. Yes they did expound on them all, but it was still disapointing to me. As I watched Gandalf fighting the Balrog again, I was anxious for it to move on to something I hadn't seen yet...

Over all it was a good movie. I think I went in with higher expectations. Fellowship I think was better overall, but this was a good movie.

edit: I found this review that is kind of what I think. Except I thought the ents rocked, and I wanted to see a bit more of them.