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Originally Posted by Macalaure
As I already said, if PJ really wanted to have elves at Helm's Deep, I would have preferred Rivendell ones. Instead of Haldir we would have gotten Elrond's sons (or at least one of them) and the problem of "where have the elves gone" that occurs after the battle is none no more, since we can make a Grey Company out of them. Of course we may ask: How could they have gotten past Isengard? But, come on, this wouldn't have been the worst logical shortcoming of the trilogy.
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Someone had to 'show up' to save the day, and I guess PJ wanted to show that there was still some tie to the past, where Elves and Men fought Sauron together, and so we get Elves. They're Galadhrim because, well, did we meet any Elf other than Elrond and Arwen in Rivendell? PJ won't create another 'main character' (i.e. Erkenbrand), and so had to use what he had on hand, like Haldir.
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The scene on the wall before the battle is maybe the only scene of TTT where I like PJ's Gimli and I really like Aragorn adressing elves and men as Eruhíni (sadly not translated in the subtitle).
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Agreed, except that I cringe when Aragorn states the obvious.
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But you see quite a lot of them falling in their first attack. Whether these are about 10% cannot be told, of course. This or that way, 9/10 of this Uruk army should be able to cause some havoc of its own. 
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Whether it's 100 or 1000, my point is that if there are 200 elves, they either are terrible at fighting or something just doesn't make sense. My guess is that there are 1000 elves here, with which Aragorn could have made the Uruks think twice about taking Helm's Deep, if used effectively. Think about how Legolas fights, and even 'halve' that ability. It's such a great battle scene in a visceral way and I hate to continually be pulled out of the movie by thinking about how ineffectual the elves are.
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I'm far from being an expert at medieval warfare, but do the archers in the back make a lot of sense? They have no shelter from the orcish crossbows.
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Yes (not that I'm an expert either). They can shoot over the wall and defenders safely and pour arrows into the attackers. It's not until the wall is breached (which we will soon see) that they will be in any danger - and that mostly from their leader.