Yeah totally..what was up with Faramir? It made me want to cry cause he was all wrong! Sure..in looks he would have been ok, but even his voice was to gruff! And no the elves didn't go to Helms Deep..and it was so sad that they all went there in the movie. The beautiful elves dying when they could have just sailed far far away. I totally feel like a nerd getting all into this entry..but it really did upset me that they died!! I saw it twice already and the second time just..so sad. But..Gollum made up for a lot of the mistakes that the movie made (like the scene with Aragorn floating down the river which was added for no apparent reason).
those elves armors were awesome haha, they had chromed out armor! And the tree's running around stepping on and bashing orcs together was hot too! haha so good...
yeah, in the books, gandalf came with the trees (not exactly ents, but forests) and they took care of most of saruman's armies.
faramir was totally different in the movie.. like, he wasn't so tempted by the ring as they portrayed. and he didn't take them osgiliath.. no idea why they changed that.
I think I figured out the Osgiliath scene. Remember when Frodo and Sam are in Morgul vale just about to enter the pass? The army with the King of the Wraiths exists out of Minus Morgul and Frodo is transfixed and staring at him and the wraith almost senses that he's there? I think they got rid of that scene and used the Osgiliath one instead.