I guess I don't live in a nerd town...theater was barely half full...personally fotr was way better...was peter jackson just lucky with it? maybe...the fotr extended version has terrible editing...very slow... and TTT had way too much story to fit in 3 hours...and didn't anyone think it was noisy as f*ck? yeah there were battles but the audio(sound effects) were terrible.
question: did john reese davies(sp?) who played the gimly also voice treebeard? sounded too much alike.
helms deep battle was good but not the as good as hyped..
gollum was surpisingly good especially how they handled his 2 personalities...no one was excited about it when they were leaving...