[Eye of Sarnath]

Okay, I wouldn't mind seeing it again. As long as someone else payed for my ticket.

It is a good movie, but a lot of the things I liked/disliked about Fellowship were gone. I dunno, it felt different, like an entirely different person had directed it. I understand that sequels are going to be different than the movie they follow, but TTT isn't really a sequel, it's a direct continuation.

It also had a lot less action, more talky than Fellowship. And the problem with this is, I wasn't very often interested in what the characters had to say.

Less Christopher Lee! Poor guy, probably has had more lines and screentime in one Star Wars film than two, three-hour movies. I thought his character would be expanded upon in this movie. And the parts between Arwen and Aragorn felt like they were added as an afterthought. Characters who were important in the first seemed to have been forgotten (like the two examples I gave). Of course, maybe that's not Peter Jackson's fault, just that way in the books. Never actually read the books, so I don't know.

Also, am I the only one who could care less about the characters played by actors, but was more interested in CGI characters like Gollum and the Ents?

I guess I'll just have to be content with the Special Edition of Fellowship until the series can (hopefully) redeem itself with Return of the King in 2003.