The things I did not like about the movie:<P>1. Arwen. LOTR was NEVER a love story, and Arwen's part in the story was almost non-existent until the end of ROTK.<BR>2. The fight scene with Gandalf and Saruman. It was just dumb.<BR>3. The scene at Bree. That place looked like a scary, disgusting mess! Not the warm and welcoming scene that put the hobbits more at ease than they should have been on such a dangerous journey.<BR>4. Lorien was dissappointing to me, and Galadriel did not inspire the kind of love and admiration that I think she deserves, though I really liked the way she looked.<P>There were more things I didn't like, but those were the main ones. That said, I think it was the best movie I have seen in a very long time, it's the only movie I would bother going to the theatre to see, I will go and see the next two films, and I will probably go see FOTR again also. I didn't expect the movie to be as magical and wonderful as the books, but I was led to believe that PJ was very serious about sticking to the story line, so I was dissappointed. I was not upset at all at the parts of the book that were missing, I expected a lot of the detail to be left out because you just couldn't put it all in a 3 hour movie. However, like others have said, I was not impressed at all with the parts that were added. PJ could have left in some things from the book and skipped the stupid Matrix/Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon fight scene with G and S, and also the scenes with Arwen. I would have rather seen Glorfindel. I never gave a crap about Arwen anyway. And I don't think that I put more expectation into the movie than I should have. I think anyone making a movie out of a story as beloved as LOTR should keep in mind the kind of fanatics and armchair critics he is going to face. I can seperate the movie from the books, but I could not help being dissappointed. Just my opinion.
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