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When we come to RotK, Smeagol and Gollum are in league (as the debate mirrored in the pool suggests) and there is preciousss little reason for the audience to have any sympathy for him. I think that this was intentional on Jackson's part, to minimise the sadness which might otherwise be felt on his passing.
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Well, let's look at it slightly differently - what if Gollum's last pool-mirrored debate had been about whether to repent or to continue with the Shelob plan (if my memory serves me correctly, the debate in the movie went more like "can we or can we not get away with it, preciousss?")? Then the "nice master" scene could have been inserted in place of the lembas scene. Sam could have gone off at Gollum as he does in the books, and thus the audience would be left with some doubt in their mind as to whether Gollum's intentions towards Frodo had turned good or bad. When the audience realized that Frodo had been betrayed, their sympathy for Gollum would be vanquished for good. It would maintain the audience's intrigue in the subtlety of Smeagol/Gollum's character a little longer, only to evoke an even more angry reaction with Gollum's betrayal of his master to Shelob.